Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | They are not sunken into hollows as on many echinoids This genus and its allies are quite commonly found in Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks . |
2 | Its ‘ military ’ music is that of courts and Te Deums , or at most of parade grounds , not that of battlefields . |
3 | The effect is not specific to salicylates , however , as 50 mM hydrocortisone ( a much higher concentration than that seen in plasma after conventional doses ) also abolished 1 2 5 I-IFN γ binding ( Fig 6 ) . |
4 | These differences were not attributable to differences in age or duration of diabetes . |
5 | Reasons not attributable to readers were the querying of pressmarks which proved , on examination , to be correct ( 15% ) , and the sending of the wrong book against a correctly-completed call-slip ( 8% ) . |
6 | Problems ( again not attributable to readers ) were also caused by items which are not adequately identified by the pressmark supplied in their catalogue entry ( 9% ) , and by serials , of which the location of a particular issue may not be evident from information available in the Issue Hall ( 6% ) , while the sending of call-slips to an inappropriate part of the Library also caused some delay ( 4% ) . |
7 | They are not durable like rocks . |
8 | Without proper and relevant performance data about how a school is performing , it is not possible for parents to make an informed and therefore correct choice about a school . |
9 | Further even that this , although it is not possible for knitters to write their own programs for Form , there are programs that lend themselves to a great deal of adaptation and change that can be used to knit almost any type of garment . |
10 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
11 | The variety of comment illustrates that it is not possible for outsiders to specify criteria of competent practice without indulging in prescriptive evaluation . |
12 | This is not possible for patients on rate-slowing drugs such as beta blockers , ACE inhibitors and calcium blockers . |
13 | So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex . |
14 | Due to the restrictions imposed by the airlines and the railways , we regret that it is not possible for passengers to take their own bikes . |
15 | Wrong , of course , but we were all so engrossed in this life that it was not possible until years afterwards to take an objective view . |
16 | We designed ideal standard criteria for using dilatation and curettage : clinical suspicion of tuberculosis ; failure of medical treatment for menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea ; severe menorrhagia presenting as symptomatic anaemia ; to exclude early pregnancy at the time of tubal ligation ; to remove an intrauterine contraceptive device if not possible in outpatients . |
17 | George had pleaded not guilty to charges of perjury and obstructing congressional inquiries into the Iran-contra scandal . |
18 | Two farmers who had more than a hundred and thirty animals taken away from their farm during an R-S-P-C-A raid are to plead not guilty to charges of cruelty . |
19 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
20 | The appellants , Anastasis Christou and Christopher Wright , on 7 October 1991 in the Crown Court at Wood Green before Judge McMullan and a jury , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging Christou with seven counts of burglary paired with seven counts of handling stolen goods and Wright with 11 counts of burglary paired with 11 counts of handling stolen goods . |
21 | At her trial , Jean Campbell pleaded not guilty by signs and gestures interpreted by Robert Kinniburgh , and went on to show that she knew the difference between right and wrong , was indignant at the imputation of having murdered her child , and that she had a notion of what marriage was by signing the ring on her finger and removing it , and going away . |
22 | He wrote that it was ‘ not cruel to animals but , rather , indulgent to men … since it absolves them of the suspicion of crime when they eat or kill animals ’ . |
23 | She was not used to laws so easily broken , authority so easily evaded . |
24 | I 'm not used to doctors asking me if I want something else ! |
25 | and , , and they felt really bad apparently and they 'd apologized , you know , and everything was cool and I thought I was quite adamant though but they 'd , they , I 'm not used to this , you know , I 'm quite naive as Zoey says and I 'm not used to boys |
26 | they 're not used to girls being round till they 're |
27 | I was not used to patients . |
28 | Be careful of them , though ; they 're not used to foreigners , " he finished ominously , as Abu , a villainous-looking Makassarese Ali Baba , was ushered in to meet us . |
29 | In Nice the people were not used to painters and felt embarrassed at the idea of posing for them . |
30 | This can create training problems later , if a dog is not used to cars , for example , as it may be reluctant to travel in this way , or is nervous of passing vehicles . |