Example sentences of "[adj] and [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became an obsession and , looking back , I realize this and am not proud of it . |
| 2 | It added : ‘ Our position has always been that there is no truth in the rumours concerning Mr Major 's private life : our article made this clear and is not therefore defamatory of him or of Ms Latimer . |
| 3 | I am finding your mag interesting and am not having to dive for the dictionary too often . |
| 4 | In so far as the Manchester Corporation case is inconsistent with the principle to which I have referred it is wrong and is not good law . |
| 5 | The real Kilfinnan Fall is worth a special visit but it is elusive and is not the safest of access — hence the neglect . |
| 6 | When Britain joined under John Major as Chancellor , the Bundesbank thought the level was too high and was not prepared to support sterling when it came under pressure from speculators , he added . |
| 7 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 8 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 9 | Not only is the future uncertain , but information about the present is not free and is not available to everyone . |
| 10 | PIA PRODUCTS ARE CRUELTY FREE AND ARE NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS |
| 11 | Sir Anthony is a disenchanted maverick of a wet and is not best placed to present a fair test of backbench opinion . |
| 12 | Sir Anthony is a disenchanted maverick of a wet and is not best placed to present a fair test of backbench opinion . |
| 13 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |
| 14 | It is possible to subscribe to an updating service , but adopting your own scheme is perfectly adequate and is not expensive . |
| 15 | The importance of immune reactions in preventing successful organ grafting was shown conclusively when a kidney was transplanted from one identical twin to another and was not rejected . |
| 16 | It was common ground that if the pre-1873 jurisdiction of the judges as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary appeals was a jurisdiction exercised by them sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges in pursuance of any statute , law or custom , then the jurisdiction was vested in the High Court and exercised by judges of that court sitting as such and was not amenable to judicial review . |
| 17 | In Genentech Inc. " s Patent [ 1989 ] , it was held , inter alia , in the Court of Appeal that a patent which claimed the practical application of a discovery did not relate to the discovery as such and was not excluded by section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 even if the practical application might be obvious once the discovery had been made . |
| 18 | He told the French people that Algeria cost France too much and was not worth holding on to . |
| 19 | I feel that Golding 's description of the attitudes of the boys is much more realistic than that of ‘ Coral Island ’ because boys are violent and are not always good . |
| 20 | For , although there was an absolute past , it was normative and was not regarded as receding . |
| 21 | The M two motorway remains closed between junctions five and six and is not expected to reopen for several hours . |
| 22 | The types remain separate and are not intermixed . |
| 23 | Engineers like their materials to be consistent and are not too deeply interested in reasons , so they encouraged the idea that each material has a characteristic strength which could be determined accurately , once for all , if only one did enough tests . |
| 24 | After this , that thoroughfare became wide and straight and was not built-up until the 1920's apart from the provision of a cemetery near the borough boundary . |
| 25 | The Cecchini Report did highlight potential benefits from co-ordinated expansion of aggregate demand , but this was rather vague and was not envisaged at the kind of level being advocated by the supporters of such Keynesian policies . |
| 26 | At that range it was impossible to distinguish details — but the royal standard should have been visible and was not . |
| 27 | Remember that the additional information given in the examples above by drawing pitch levels and movements between lines is only included here to make the examples clearer and is not normally given with our system of transcription , so all the important information about intonation must be given by the marks placed in the text . |
| 28 | It is set in South Africa but is not primarily political and is not about apartheid ; however , it subtly reflects the racial and social strains in South African society . |
| 29 | He had disappeared at the age of eleven and was not found until he was thirty-six years old . |
| 30 | It is advisable to wear loose , comfortable clothing , although if you have come straight from work this may not be possible and is not essential . |