Example sentences of "not [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their abundance in such sites as Rudabanya , Hungary , and Can Llobateres , Spain , and their wide distribution across the whole of southern Europe , demonstrates a successful adaptation spanning 3–4Myr , but it is not possible with our present knowledge to say what was the basis of this success . |
| 2 | Therefore it was not possible for my Working Group to prescribe a single policy which would suit all circumstances . |
| 3 | In the first place she had always consistently opposed fashion shows for her company ; she did not approve of professional models wearing ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes since they were not representative of her real customers ; furthermore , she had moral objections to catwalk cavortings as being sexually provocative ; ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were not designed with sexual provocation in mind . |
| 4 | Bulgaria 's former President and Communist Party leader , Todor Zhivkov , on trial since February 1991 on various charges of corruption and abuse of power , pleaded not guilty at his final court defence appearance on a first charge , of embezzlement , on Aug. 14 . |
| 5 | The daleks of Skye and Plockton are not eternal like their televisual equivalents . |
| 6 | In a speech on Aug. 15 , 1991 , Prince Hans Adam maintained , however , that it was not practicable for his small principality to become a full member of the European Communities . |
| 7 | Epstein concluded that management of stress among the experienced parachutists was not due to their repeated exposure to jumping in the manner of a conditioned response , but was a consequence of an active coping process that on each occasion was used to prepare them for the coming jump . |
| 8 | Furthermore , as we shall see , the latency period , which follows these three stages as another developmental marker , is certainly not universal in its cultural aspects even if , as we noted earlier , basic neuro-physiological phenomena related to latency are . |
| 9 | The management of information systems in education is still not free from their chequered past . |
| 10 | We are not interested in their sexual preferences . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not interested in your personal affairs , do you understand ? ’ |
| 12 | but a when when somebody when it 's becoming apparent that somebody is I would n't say is not interested in your little complaint that you 've got and that that they 're they 're trying to change to subject it 's difficult to keep them on it |
| 13 | He tells us that God 's salvation is not dependent on our good acts , or obedience to any man-made or even God-given law . |
| 14 | Nikolai Ryabov , the deputy chairman of parliament and a leading conservative , told Russian television at the beginning of May that , though the president 's draft of a new constitution was not acceptable in its current form , ‘ these obstacles are not insurmountable ’ . |
| 15 | His affects are governed by guilt feelings , not accessible to his conscious mind . |
| 16 | William the Conqueror was a cruel and harsh ruler , and I do not suggest that we should harry the north ; but during his reign , although people were fearful of the monarch , they were not fearful of their fellow citizens . |
| 17 | They feel that it is not appropriate for their naughty child to receive special treatment or they feel that they should not reward the child for doing something that other children do naturally . |
| 18 | Not content with its splendid win over the Law Society in the Robson Rhodes ' Cup ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 22 ) , it trounced the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors last month by 43 runs . |
| 19 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 20 | Mackenzie expected to exchange trade goods for beaver skins , but the Nez Perce refused to trap beaver , since it was not consistent with their seasonal existence . |
| 21 | Though he established a military academy at Chełmno in 1776 specifically for the sons of the Polish nobility , this was not consistent with his general line of thought . |
| 22 | Tunisia is not unaware of its environmental responsibilities . |
| 23 | These factors will affect its organisational structure and ethos ( Billis , 1989 ) but are not crucial to its essential characteristic — it is not a profit-making agency and it is not under direct political control . |
| 24 | They are the ‘ watermelon party ’ , green on the outside and red on the inside , part of the ‘ alternative ’ subculture , the libertarian siblings of a rich society , not unlike at their extreme end the American drop-out society of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 25 | Such instances are not typical of their managerial system of control for it is unlikely that a single individual would be able to oversee a widely dispersed media empire . |
| 26 | Russells Hall estate is not typical of its immediate surroundings as only 6 per cent of the population are aged 10 or under while 52 per cent of the estate population are 50 or over . |
| 27 | The appointment of two women will end accusations that Mr Major was not serious in his stated intention to promote women . |
| 28 | It does not contribute to the definition of a class — for he is adamant that the class positions adopted by particular groups are not indicative of their true class membership . |
| 29 | This earned it black marks in the eyes of its founder , Beamish , who considered it a decrepit and defunct organization not worthy of his continuing support . |
| 30 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |