Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [prep] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the water did enter a person 's house they were usually able to move all of the furniture and possessions upstairs where they would keep safe and dry , but this was not possible for all the residents . |
| 2 | It is not possible for all the functions of the two desks to be done at one desk in reception . |
| 3 | It is not possible for all the Eurodollars in existence to be spent within the US . |
| 4 | She pleaded not guilty to all the charges . |
| 5 | But whereas the submarine pens were re-opened within four days in 1918 , after the St Nazaire raid this dry-dock was not repaired until the 1950s — one reason perhaps why the British were not popular with all the townsfolk for many years afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not interested in all the tittle-tattle that has been flying about . ’ |
| 7 | As is well known — the hon. Member for Bolsover has referred to this — the Liberal Democrat party was not content with all the provisions in the social chapter of the Maastricht drafts . |
| 8 | Not content with that the bird then circled another new born lamb at the Chinnor smallholding apparently ready to pounce . |
| 9 | This is consistent with the hydrogen-bonding scheme of the tetrad ( Fig. 1b ) , and all other base associations that we have been able to devise are not consistent with all the data . |
| 10 | It was a long game , and despite his dogged determination not to be shuffled to the sidelines Edward , naturally , was not privy to all the machinations . |
| 11 | Yet because the philosopher 's adult has traditionally been male , his children boy children , and his educational programmes designed to facilitate the transition between them , the ideal of the fully human person has been masculinised to the point where otherwise thoughtful and sometimes good and wise men have unashamedly admitted that this defining ideal is not applicable to half the species . |
| 12 | He was not impressed by all the hocus-pocus with the Scapegoat nor by the gossip which linked Jordan with the dead man , but beyond all that he was beginning to feel — to sense that this was a sinister crime , an expression of hatred , long nurtured in secret until it could no longer be contained . |
| 13 | Jack McGarva , defending , said his client was not responsible for all the graffiti but admitted causing the damage on a large number of occasions . |
| 14 | The effect was not uniform over all the potencies but showed peaks and troughs of activity , with some potencies showing more absorption than others ( Figure 11 ) . |
| 15 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 16 | So I 'm not conversant with all the rules . |
| 17 | ‘ I must say I was not aware of all the problems the police have detailed and would have done something about it had they told me . ’ |
| 18 | I was happy to agree with this because it seemed to me that teachers were not ready for all the problems of assessment of speaking and listening for pupils aged 14 to 16 , and for the profile component to be given a 20 per cent weighting would be a considerable step forward . |
| 19 | Desert Orchid enjoys the crowds , and is n't worried by all the people touching him . |