Example sentences of "not [be] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 2 | It has not been possible for the American navy to leave behind the assets that it had developed there , but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will certainly take note of the point that the hon. Lady raised about Ministry of Defence assets in the area . |
| 3 | Such an intention had not been apparent in the earlier government policy of the 1960s . |
| 4 | In recent years US unions have not been inactive in the political sphere and have actually had a large degree of impact on influencing legislation concerned with broader social and economic issues ( Lewin , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | It had not been reasonable for the Royal Mail to use their dismissals as an example of enforcement of the new rules . |
| 6 | On visits to the golf course since his son 's death , Mr Allan said , he had not been impressed by the new safety fence or by the position of two new lifebelts near the quarry . |
| 7 | In spite of being the main source of generating profit , E&P operations have not been immune from the cost-cutting drive aimed at reducing capital debt . |
| 8 | She had a small collection of recipes which had not been suitable for the Mediterranean book and these now became French Country Cooking , published in 1951 . |
| 9 | Although CPRW has not been prominent among the various warring groups who have fought to protect their interests over recent years , I assume we are concerned to see the river environment and its considerable amenity value protected . |
| 10 | Like the LEA , the committee must seek to grant parental preference , but subject to the exceptions contained in section 6 in so far as these have not been dis-applied by the 1988 Act ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Such data have not been available for the public sector in England and Wales until the OPCS Survey of School Leavers ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Had such appropriately skilled ex-employees not been available in the local labour market , these organisations could not have entertained their strategies of using temporary workers in the first place . |
| 13 | I have many points to answer , rather than respond to hon. Members who have not been present for the full debate . |
| 14 | Danov also declared his conviction that Bulgarian agents had not been involved in the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II . |
| 15 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 16 | All the quality standards require arrangements for files to be reviewed by a lawyer who has not been involved in the day-to-day conduct of the case . |
| 17 | But Coun. David Lyonette , chairman of the planning committee , said the church had not been co-operative during the long-running planning wrangle . |
| 18 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 19 | Rebus and his successors had not been aware of the true details of this massacre of prisoners . |
| 20 | He reiterated his position that he had not been aware of the clandestine funding . |
| 21 | Individuals may not declare all their income , particularly if they have not been truthful to the Inland Revenue or the DSS . |
| 22 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 23 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 24 | The behaviour of firms need not be conspiratorial in the legal sense . |
| 25 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 26 | Such a prosperous future will not be possible under the common agricultural policy , which is fundamentally flawed and incapable of the satisfactory reform that the Government would like to see . |
| 27 | While reporting strong inquiry levels , he said orders were still quiet and warned it would not be possible for the European automated systems business to sustain its 1991 performance this year . |
| 28 | Given the increasing difficulty which the local authorities are experiencing in offering financial help to their institutions , especially to those polytechnics in urban areas where their parent authorities are under greater pressure from the Department of the Environment to keep rate increases down , it may not be possible for the public sector institutions , try as they may , to keep up their student numbers . |
| 29 | It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions . |
| 30 | Even so , Wendler is careful to qualify best estimates , saying ‘ open environments will not be possible in the absolute , even by 1996 , but solutions will emerge that are increasingly less closed . ’ |