Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not [vb pp] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not persuaded that the jurisdiction of the visitor involves such exceptional considerations that this principle should be departed from and that some grounds be accepted and others held not to be available for the purposes of judicial review . |
| 2 | I keep the matter under review , as I must , but in the circumstances I am not persuaded that the public interest requires me to take the necessarily large number of actions up and down the country . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't insured and the things stolen were worth £150,000 . |
| 5 | You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached , but you do not want to live on an estate . |
| 6 | When Olwyn was not in bed by 8pm she was not rewarded and no star was given , even if she was only one minute late . |
| 7 | Secondly , we are not told whether the station lay on or near B 's proper route , or whether it was so much off the route that every yard he went was a yard away from his employment and not to it . |
| 8 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 9 | They 'll just not do it if they are not paid and a chance to develop the game will be lost . |
| 10 | There is certainly a security problem , in that arranging for security and integrity of data is more complex by comparison with sequential files and this , coupled with their poor performance for sequential applications , makes it obvious why they are not used if a sequential file is appropriate . |
| 11 | Yet they were not consulted before the project started and there has been no public inquiry of any kind . |
| 12 | They were not told that the client on that occasion had cancelled the deal . |
| 13 | ‘ They were n't cut because the course was opened earlier than expected , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 14 | It 's not known if the patrol which spotted the stolen car was part of this operation . |
| 15 | It 's not known if the weapon he uses is real , but he could be dangerous . |
| 16 | It 's not known when the public flogging will be carried out . |
| 17 | Certainly platelets do not normally adhere to arterial endothelium if it is not damaged but the explanation for this antithrombotic property of intact endothelium remains obscure . |
| 18 | It is not presumed that a hunting-gathering society will possess a bureaucracy . |
| 19 | It is not felt that the danger is a real one because one can never control the discretion of trustees . |
| 20 | It is not recorded whether the Salas diary was his most recent acquisition or whether it appealed most to the colleague but the following story is quite remarkable . |
| 21 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) It is not disputed that the debenture , including the fixed and floating charge created by it , is to be construed according to English law which draws no distinction , in the case of an English company at least , between property located within and property located outside the United Kingdom : see In re The Anchor Line ( Henderson Brothers ) Ltd. [ 1937 ] Ch. 483 , 487 , 488 . |
| 23 | If it has that effect , it is not disputed that the rule of law applies , namely , that the release of one of two joint debtors has the effect of releasing the other . |
| 24 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 25 | It is not intended that the SCOTVEC Sciences provision should duplicate that of the SEB but it should articulate with the SEB provision in such a way as to allow transfer between the two systems . |
| 26 | It is not contended that the duty arose out of contract : the contract was between the defendants and Mrs. Walker , and so far as contract is concerned it was to Mrs. Walker the defendants were liable for breach of it . |
| 27 | It is not thought that the onset of turbulence represents in some sense a breakdown of these equations . |
| 28 | It is not recommended that the software be re-modularised prior to its initial entry . |
| 29 | It is not suggested that the teacher should keep up a non-stop commentary or continually repeat the children 's answers and comments for the benefit of the rest of the group . |
| 30 | It is not suggested that the results of assessment should be adjusted to take account of characteristic differences between groups in performance . |