Example sentences of "not [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally this must be not lower than cost or market value . |
| 2 | Indeed Punk Rock 's attitude to the sex act itself was not libertarian but puritan : |
| 3 | If our income is not stable and inflation resistant , then budgeting becomes impossible . |
| 4 | Information regarding numbers is not definite but total may be about 500,000 . " |
| 5 | The least favourable reports are on systems which only partially embrace signing or fingerspelling , and systems based on fingerspelling alone are not possible unless speech is slowed down considerably . |
| 6 | Ultrasound monitoring was not possible as impeller rotation generated multiple tiny bubbles that produced a diffuse intraluminal echogenicity . |
| 7 | As shown above , direct comparison between the different types of investigation used is not possible and ony immunohistochemical techniques provide direct demonstration that the tumour cells do indeed contain xenobiotic metabolising enzymes . |
| 8 | Despite the myriad perversions emblazoned across Vivienne Westwood 's clothes for ‘ Sex ’ , Punk Rock 's concerns were not private but public : the Self here was amplified , in songs like ‘ I Wan na Be Me ’ , into a desperate assertion of individuality in a Burroughsian world of collapsing values and dehumanized sex , and the body was not something to be celebrated but — in songs like ‘ Bodies ’ , with its excoriation , ‘ I 'm not an animal ! ’ — objectified through fear . |
| 9 | Suddenly what seems to be at stake is not economic and material wellbeing , but the Britishness of being Britain … |
| 10 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
| 11 | It is not self-evident that membership of a trade union should be a condition of participation in industrial democracy ; nor enough for the majority Report to assert , simply as a statement of belief , that ‘ if employees wish to be represented on the board , they must be prepared to organise ’ — that is , to join trade unions — ‘ to make representation on the board effective ’ . |
| 12 | I do not make a fuss , I do not rant and splutter . |
| 13 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 14 | From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate . |
| 15 | It is not clear whether mandamus is available in respect of any failure by a statutory authority to perform a statutory duty . |
| 16 | Any lack of precision or clarity may provide an excuse for a dispute or even litigation : for example , if it is not clear when payment is due , the client 's customer may rely on the uncertainty in the terms to withhold payment until the latest possible date . |
| 17 | The point of distinguishing them is to show that ‘ social classes , although objectively determined ( structures ) , are not ontological and nominalist entities , but only exist within and through the class struggle ( practices ) ’ . |
| 18 | But coal was not universal as engine fuel . |
| 19 | what you should give up is not smoking but sex . |
| 20 | It can develop strongly in almost any weather , but contrary to popular and widespread belief and advice , the conditions that most favour and encourage it are not damp and mugginess , but hot dry days interspersed with clear , cold , dew-laden nights . |
| 21 | Rimsky-Korsakov added an orchestral figure representing flames for the immolation of the Old Believers , and brought back the Preobazhensky March ; Shostakovich added to that a reminiscence of the Dawn music opening the opera ; and Stravinsky used the intended tune plus two more , giving the ending a much more positive and balanced view of the Old Believers as not regressive and obscurantist but charged with dignity and Christian endurance . |
| 22 | Alternatively , we may have fewer and poorer sources as the vast amounts of electronic information are not accessible because hardware has become obsolete , software and data have not been migrated forward , and the media have degraded . |
| 23 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 24 | It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state . |
| 25 | It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state , without which being English or Irish or Jewish , or a combination of all these , is only one way in which people describe their identity among the many others which they use for this purpose , as occasion demands . |
| 26 | This time around it is a case of ‘ once bitten , twice shy ’ and their doubt is not simple but compound . |
| 27 | In large buildings , communication with other staff if often not easy but discretion is preferred to valour ! |
| 28 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 29 | Such interim copies would be necessary if the logs , which are not serial but wrap-around , were to approach the point of overflow . |
| 30 | The former is not crucial unless time and energy efficient paddling are important ( which they will be on big open crossings ) but the latter is a more serious problem , particularly when trying to keep on a bearing in a big sea . |