Example sentences of "not [vb pp] to the " in BNC.

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1 A fact , by the way , she had not communicated to the police .
2 In a second study , Kennedy ( 1972 ) found that repetition after 1 year was less common in patients admitted to the Edinburgh Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre ( 12 per cent ) than in those who made attempts and were not referred to the Centre , irrespective of whether the latter were referred to psychiatrists elsewhere ( 38 per cent repeated ) or not ( 37 per cent repeated ) .
3 However , the contested takeover of Imperial by Hanson was not referred to the MMC as it did not adversely affect competition or the ‘ public interest ’ .
4 They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous .
5 ‘ For the purposes of all legal proceedings any question as to the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties , or as to the validity , meaning or effect of any Community instrument , shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) . ’
6 Section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 expressly provides that the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties ‘ shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) ’ . ’
7 Although the parents and the study staff were not blinded to the vaccine groups , parents gave informed consent before knowing which vaccine their child would receive .
8 There might have been some other more rational explanation , but it was not furnished to the House by the Secretary of State .
9 The collapse is possible because many of the ribs are not joined to the sternum , and those that do join make contact by long flexible cartilages .
10 Perhaps the Norwich striker had not adjusted to the importance of the occasion , but Norman was able to make a crucial save .
11 It meant the costs and the financial implications were not explained to the relatives , although the consequences for them were quite serious .
12 The accused 's conviction was quashed because the judge had not explained to the jury that the sale amounted to theft only if the victim had a " proprietary right or interest " in the video .
13 If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative .
14 ( A ) The following provisions apply to periods during which the headship of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is not assigned to the professor :
15 In contrast , in smaller and more informal gatherings such as house Masses , the power this can release has often been experienced so impressively that one wonders whether the new liturgy was not given to the Church prophetically , with a view to new circumstances which were to come , but which till now have been realized only unevenly .
16 If the interpretation of the point is not given to the ordinary courts then the error will not be an error of law at all ; the criterion laid down by the tribunal will be the accepted standard .
17 I should prefer that the appointments are not given to the governors of the banks of individual member states .
18 All the preceding research and analysis can be sabotaged in seconds if careful thought is not given to the initial approach .
19 The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality .
20 Adjuvant therapy was not given to the first 44 successfully treated patients .
21 This view has led a number of researchers to question whether some groups of children are slow to develop language because their pre-verbal social and cognitive abilities have not developed to the point where the child is ready to begin using spoken or sign language .
22 But let us think about what would have happened if the Allies had not retaliated to the indiscriminate bombing of this country and the dive bombing tactics of the Luftwaffe on refugees on the continent .
23 Male and female roles were separate and complementary , and based on the primitive , that the male was the stronger and not exposed to the constant and deathly risks of the childbed .
24 TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell .
25 In culture , the cells are not exposed to the factors that cells in the spleen or marrow might secrete or other factors circulating in the blood .
26 But this would not be the case where the trust assets were not exposed to the same risk that the other vendors accept .
27 He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books .
28 You do n't see all the ladies pulling their gloves on every time they go to church or appear in public , er and certainly men , very , very rarely wear , use gloves possibly , as we 're driving cars , we 're not exposed to the cold .
29 Figure 1 and Table I show net fluid transport measured during control conditions lasting for at least 45 minutes in rats injected with the larvae and in those not exposed to the nematode ( control rats ; Fig 1 ) .
30 A statistically significant increase in fluid uptake was also caused by hexamethonium in experiments on control rats not exposed to the nematode , fluid absorption increasing from 48 ( 15 ) to 71 ( 16 ) µl.min - 1 .100 cm - 2 ( mean ( SEM ) ; n=10 ) .
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