Example sentences of "not [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There is nothing to stop the parties specifically preventing the expert from pursuing his own investigations and limiting his consideration of evidence to the material submitted by the parties ; this can be attended to at this stage , if it has not been already provided for in the expert clause : see 8.15.8 .
2 Typhoid : The illness which produced the Widow of Windsor , from an insanitary state of the drains there , which has not been greatly improved upon in much of the world .
3 The normal definition , that tasks will be executed at Community level only if they can not be satisfactorily dealt with at national level , begs the most important questions which can ever be asked in a democratic system : who decides ? how ? what for ?
4 The figures suggest that the crisis of 1987 which precipitated the Prime Minister 's Review was the result of cumulative underfunding throughout the 1980s which could not be sufficiently compensated for by internally generated savings and efficiency improvements .
5 I can say only that when I was at Bletchley the belief among my associates was that information had been received and that Ultra did not fail ; the intelligence it provided could not be fully acted upon for fear of betraying Ultra itself .
6 It makes me angry that I 'm not being properly provided for by the government
7 Hopefully most of these people wash in the morning and use a shower ( those who do n't are probably compensated for by those who take baths ) … 5.3 billion showers equals an annual consumption of something like 160 billion gallons of water a year .
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