Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 2 | Johnny Hallyday 's Hamlet , for instance , was not widely seen as threatening the supremacy of Olivier and Gielgud . |
| 3 | It 's much sloppier than it used to be , and the ladings are not all priced as we used to price them . |
| 4 | It is not entirely forgotten as is proved by Avian Way , Aerodrome Road and several other names on the same theme . |
| 5 | For example , there is no development of an intra-mandibular joint , as occurs in Herrerasaurus and other theropods , and the external naris and the narial fossa are not greatly enlarged as in sauropodomorphs . |
| 6 | Such testimony was not necessarily regarded as morally wrong . |
| 7 | From this perspective the previously existing moral order is not seen as being wholly positive , and consequently its destruction — for both the conservative- and liberal-historians identify such a process-is not necessarily perceived as being problematic . |
| 8 | For the time being , though , Ronald Reagan and the American Environment should be seen in context and not necessarily taken as definitive . |
| 9 | Although not so thronged as any assembly addressed by Eliot would later have been , the room was full . |
| 10 | Most Zuwaya were servants of government , but were not so restricted as policemen . |
| 11 | Now his attention was focussed on why the tower had bent and his second effort not only bent as before but was even taller than the previous tower . |
| 12 | We mean by this that alien or foreign ways of life are not only treated as odd , they are also very threatening , especially when actually present in the country . |
| 13 | There may often be a good case for conviction , and no deficiency of evidence , yet acquittal ensues because the prosecutor , acting without advice , is not sufficiently informed as to the precise nature of the proof required by law . |
| 14 | This procedure , which was known as silencing , was referred to in a case in 1741 , Hughes v. Science ( 1741 ) 2 Atk. 173 , and was not finally repealed as spent or unnecessary till 1948 : Statute Law Revision Act 1948 , section 1 , Schedule 1 . |
| 15 | Before we review Grice 's suggestions it would be as well to make clear that the other major theory associated with Grice , namely his theory of meaning-nn discussed above in Chapter I , is not generally treated as having any connection with his theory of implicature ( cf. |
| 16 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |
| 17 | You might be able to think of crimes that are not generally regarded as deviant — crime committed in self-defence , for example . |
| 18 | Such internal order is highly significant , since it reinforces the point that objects are not best understood as merely subservient to social divisions . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman will have read and re-read circular 7/91 which contains the exceptions policy , allowing homes to be provided on sites not normally designated as residential so long as they are aimed at local people . |
| 20 | The regular association of passive structures with adversity in certain languages means that the passive can often carry connotations of unpleasantness even when the event depicted is not normally seen as unpleasant . |
| 21 | In the work of most linguists today , then , speech is not overtly seen as dependent on the rules of written language , while for many the ‘ universalism ’ of some approaches is being closely questioned . |
| 22 | MV Yes , in memoirs but not imaginatively assimilated as it should be as , for example , in fiction . |
| 23 | They are also not usually recognized as having any significance by those responsible for statutory protection measures , particularly if they are suspected of having any connection with leys or other ‘ lunatic fringe ’ ideas . |
| 24 | In practice , the PPP theory is not usually expressed as in ( 7.4 ) in terms of price levels , mainly because of the difficulties involved in determining an appropriate base year for computing the price-level indices . |
| 25 | If you commit an act which is specifically prohibited , you may lose your job even if what you have done is not usually regarded as quite so reprehensible in other organisations . |
| 26 | Clearly , stress has linguistic importance and is therefore an aspect of the phonology of English that must be described , but it is not usually regarded as something that is related to individual segmental phonemes ; normally , stress is said to be something that is applied to ( or is a property of ) syllables , and is therefore part of the suprasegmental phonology of English . |
| 27 | Images , ambiguity , dramatic tensions , all central features of twentieth-century modern literature , are not usually allowed as the student is marked for coherence , order and objectivity . |
| 28 | It is not formally structured as it is in the ballets of other countries where choreographers are more likely to present the traditional dance itself , slightly adapted for the stage with the footwork more complicated . |
| 29 | Because the other bit of rumour , and not passed on by his friend Jordan , none of it was , said that with one of the victims , the last , as yet not formally identified as Ephraim Humphreys , a teddy-bear had been found . |
| 30 | He stared back at her , not deeply involved as she was , but calmly prepared to stand his ground . |