Example sentences of "[noun sg] which be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early recurrences may be the result of incomplete clearance of the gall bladder which is not detected by radiological examination . |
| 2 | Avoid any tendency to pull the model round with back cyclic — this should not be necessary and will rob you of forward speed which is not advisable at this stage . |
| 3 | This may be contrasted with a moral or rule-based association which is not held together by a common purpose but merely by the authority of common practices . |
| 4 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 5 | ( h ) convertible loan stock which is not quoted on a recognised stock exchange , or is not issued on terms which are reasonably comparable with the terms of quoted convertible stock , can cause a problem as the interest payable on it will fall to be treated for tax purposes as a distribution ( ICTA 1988 , s209(2) ( e ) ( ii ) ) . |
| 6 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 7 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 9 | Fairyhouse returns next Saturday with an all Flat card which is not , I 'm sure , what punters might want at this famed National Hunt course . |
| 10 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 11 | He normally operated within a functioning framework of state power and administration which was not his own , at least outside the actual buildings he occupied ( ‘ my home is my castle ’ ) . |
| 12 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 13 | In both the instances we have looked at , the speaker uses the change of code to animate a persona which is not his/her own , but that of a character in a narrative . |
| 14 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 15 | The larger pieces show a surprising link with her drawing which is not borne out by the smaller more elaborate pieces cast in bronze . |
| 16 | Speaking at the league 's annual meeting in Walsall , McKeag added : ‘ There was very little detail involved and we are not in a position to investigate in detail a club 's financial situation nor would we be able to impose any sanctions against a club which was not in breach of regulations . |
| 17 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 18 | In Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 Q.B. ) , the buyer had been supplied in March with a second hand car which was not of merchantable quality because its brakes were defective . |
| 19 | The lawyer said that the reason for this was to provide justification for opening fire on a car which was not endangering anyone 's life . |
| 20 | The clause did not protect the sellers when they delivered a car which was not new ; the seller was in breach of an express term . |
| 21 | That model was consistent with the view that the only factor in the equation which was not reasonable , constant and satisfactory was the pupils . |
| 22 | He is the only major figure offering an alternative party programme which is not a watered-down version of Mrs Thatcher 's . |
| 23 | It also sets out the rules governing quota transfer and leasing together with the treatment of quota which is not used . |
| 24 | Another family member , Carl Smedley , 28 , suffered a stab wound to the neck which was not serious . |
| 25 | In a strategy pioneered by the affluent-worker study in Luton , which one might call the optimal-case approach , a site was chosen for the research which was not representative , nor claimed to be , but was particularly germane to the topic of the investigation . |
| 26 | In small businesses like a grocery shop , a newsagent or a small restaurant most of the workers recruited are invariably speakers of the same community language , and where it is not a homogeneous linguistic group , there is a common language , a linguafranca which is not English but Hindi-Urdu ( among the South Asians ) . |
| 27 | The main experimental problem , however , is being able to calculate the concentration at each point in the cell which is not always easy . |
| 28 | The searcher may go astray because either some supposed fact is wrong or it applies modus ponens in an irrelevant way , but it will never arrive at any result which is not a strict consequence of its start state . |
| 29 | Some organisations provide detailed lists of items which are allowable under the disturbance allowance ; others merely state that it is intended to meet all other ‘ out-of-pocket ’ expenses incurred during relocation which are not specified elsewhere in the company 's policy . |
| 30 | Consequently there is no necessity to devise strategies to handle risk or to manage uncertainty which is not likely to occur : resources can be better invested in core activities . |