Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [is] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the timing of some tax payments is not known with certainty and can lead to substantial changes in this component of the money market cash position during the course of the day . |
| 2 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 3 | The aim of this policy of dispersing Civil Service jobs is not to increase directly the job opportunities of the unemployed in the economic blackspots . |
| 4 | Energy with wavelengths within these window regions is not absorbed but may be subject to a process called scattering which deflects or redirects the energy . |
| 5 | The second finding is consistent with our previous study showing that the response to pentagastrin stimulation in duodenal ulcer patients is not changed after eradication of H pylori . |
| 6 | He knows that the real purpose of these television interviews is not to enlighten the people who actually watch them but to supply short quotes and sound-bites for the news programmes and the tabloids . |
| 7 | HAMPER firm Park Foods is not ruling out acquisitions and spending some of its cash pile , chairman Peter Johnson told the Daily Post yesterday . |
| 8 | As has been pointed out " the purpose of many opposition amendments is not to make the Bill more generally acceptable but to make the Government less generally acceptable . " |
| 9 | The listing which contains specific variable parts is not stored in the main data base , but is recorded on a secondary storage medium . |
| 10 | Even if it were possible to use all the shares in the index in an arbitrage transaction , for instance when F > ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) and short selling shares is not required , arbitrageurs often choose to use an alternative approach . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the opportunity for this country to help support genuine refugees abroad through various aid programmes is not helped by the fact that , according to a headline in The Times today , bogus refugees bleed Britain of £100 million through benefit fraud ? |
| 12 | The phenomenon of expanding authorship in biomedical journal articles is not explained by the hypothesis that newer research technologies have necessitated more extensive collaboration . |
| 13 | The International Law Commission emphasised that the operation of most-favoured nation clauses is not prejudiced by the Vienna Convention , an acknowledgment that the Convention is not comprehensive in its coverage of treaties and third parties . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Council is of the view that the proposed structure of single tier authorities is not designed to meet the long-term needs of local government but the short-term wishes of the Scottish Conservative Party . |
| 15 | In comparison with CREB RNA that is present at similar levels in all cell types analysed ( the reason for the decreased size of CREB transcripts in F9 cells relative to other cell types is not known ) ATF1 RNA is present at higher levels ( ∼3 fold ) in UF9 cells compared with DF9 cells or other cell types . |
| 16 | The fate of the earlier Halling registers is not known but some of the early entries were copied in the 19th century by Sir Thorn as Colyer Ferguson . |
| 17 | If the hypocholesterolaemia among colorectal cancer patients is not caused by a metabolic effect of the tumours , how can such a phenomenon be explained ? |