Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [is] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is known that plasma concentrations of both peptides increase in response to feeding , the mechanism by which ingested food causes release of colonic hormones is not understood . |
| 2 | A licensee of licensed premises is not permitted knowingly to sell liquor to a person under 18 , to allow a person under 18 to consume liquor in a bar , or to allow anyone else to make such a sale . |
| 3 | Indeed , in social systems where the position of social rebels is not recognized , such as that of Soviet Russia , you are likely to be reckoned as insane anyway . |
| 4 | We must be careful that the harmonisation of individual legislatures is not achieved at the expense of those groups with little economic power . |
| 5 | When it comes to operational issues and manpower , the stock answer is that information on the running costs of individual units is not held centrally and could be provided only by the use of disproportionate time and effort , yet the Minister criticises us for not being more specific . |
| 6 | Doubtless that was the trigger , but an operation of 24,000 men is not thrown together in a few days . |
| 7 | The raising of additional enquiries is not encouraged , but may be necessary in order to fulfil the conveyancer 's professional duty to his or her buyer client . |
| 8 | Such a style may sometimes become a little wearing , and may , perhaps , lack elegance , but a set of standard terms is not read for pleasure . |
| 9 | A contract for the sale of future goods is not made on any false assumption that the goods are in existence at the time of the contract . |
| 10 | At present , the use of such systems is not covered by any statutory regulations . |
| 11 | The precise significance of such entries is not explained . |
| 12 | The form of human institutions is not determined by their functional adequacy in the way that both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown seem to have believed . |
| 13 | The 1981 WHO international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes is not intended to curb the use of these products ; its aim is clearly set down as follows : ‘ to contribute to the provision of safe and adequate nutrition for infants by the protection and promotion of breast-feeding , and by ensuring the proper use of breast-milk substitutes , when these are necessary , on the basis of adequate information and through appropriate marketing and distribution ’ . |
| 14 | The function of these groups is not to provide any romantic possibilities ( although that may happen ) , but to provide contact and support by introducing you to people who have similar problems to yourself . |
| 15 | The source of these birds is not known , but they may be present from late August until April . |
| 16 | What constitutes a ‘ public meeting ’ as opposed to a private one for the purposes of these sections is not spelt out any further in the legislation . |
| 17 | Further , the operation of these processes is not restricted to the male-female dimension . |
| 18 | The value of these rights is not included in the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 19 | The point of these observations is not to argue the case for any particular line of explanation , but to emphasize that current approaches in sociolinguistics have not taken us very far in understanding linguistic sex-marking . |
| 20 | If either of these conditions is not met locally , the search algorithm will have to pursue a number of hypotheses in parallel for some length of time . |
| 21 | If any one of these conditions is not fulfilled , the utterance will not function as an order . |
| 22 | Continuous running of these facilities is not recommended and should be avoided unless the offline system is run concurrently to service the store/restore requests . |
| 23 | The exact nature of some of these relationships is not stated , and is consequently rather baffling . |
| 24 | The time period of these rates is not known to me . |
| 25 | Problems occur when any one of these features is not met — for example if the recording interval is not equally spaced . |
| 26 | The point of these examples is not to underestimate the difficulties of social relations and cultural access in these types of cultural technique , but to show , by contrast , the qualitative difference when we come to such material systems as writing . |
| 27 | Hence , consent to a political authority secured by threats of legal penalties is not binding . |
| 28 | One of the interesting facets of developments in France , which also applies to the situation in the former FRG , is that the legacy of mental hospitals is not seen as an intrinsically untenable one . |
| 29 | The cost of online services is not considered to be a critical factor in their use . |
| 30 | If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population . |