Example sentences of "[noun] which [is] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The civil condition is a moral or non-instrumental practice which is not concerned with substantive considerations . |
| 6 | Yet through it all a strong sense of caring pervades and a feeling of friendship which is not easy to find in the Western World . |
| 7 | This is the kind of data which is not relevant to his objectives and thus it is not recorded in his model . |
| 8 | But it is not so easy if you have a condition which is not susceptible to diagnosis and has no clear-cut signs or symptoms . |
| 9 | ‘ Acquired ’ refers to any condition which is not present at birth . |
| 10 | As he said , such a retailer must recognise that each family in such hard times will buy only one turkey , one tin of biscuits , and one Christmas pudding , and the retailer which is not open will lose that custom . |
| 11 | Rather it is the unplanned result of the maintenance of a generally traditional form of agriculture which is not over-exploitive of its fundamental resources . |
| 12 | Before leaving section I , mention should be made of one defence which is not available . |
| 13 | However the treaty is likely to represent a delicately balanced compromise between the varying interests of the member States which is not easy to disturb . |
| 14 | The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ . |
| 15 | Comment on the position there , only in so far as the extent of the existing contract which is not due to expire until first of January nineteen ninety five , and we 're not proposing to ask to terminate that . |
| 16 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 17 | The several thousand species in this category can be commercially traded , but exporting countries are required to limit their trading to a level which is not detrimental to the survival of the animals . |
| 18 | On a level which is not hard to discern or to deal with , there are some who have almost ‘ grown into faith ’ through their family or their church ) so that they have never become aware of the need for their own convictions . |
| 19 | There is already an operational route which is not open to the public . |
| 20 | The next booking is a course which is n't due to start until Friday . |
| 21 | Er generally if you try and differentiate a function which is n't continuous , |
| 22 | Can there exist a continuous function which is not differentiable for any x ? |
| 23 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
| 24 | Money spent on machines or intensive care units or renal dialysis , and on staff for these , is money which is not available for other health and medical services ; |
| 25 | Alright , and you , because that , that means of geo of the geographical constraint which is n't present in er , most industrial erm , plants I mean , you know , a very large , say in the plant at Toy Toyota , er , that 's in Derby . |
| 26 | You can use technical language for the expert which is not appropriate for the layperson . |
| 27 | The purpose of a utilitarian work is the idea of the work whereas everything pertaining to the work which is not necessary to the purpose is expression . |
| 28 | The end result , is reduced efficiency and , for those institutions involved in the underhanded activity , a false level of profitability which is not sustainable in the long term under true market conditions . |
| 29 | ( T ) here are many cases where a man who has a ‘ right , ’ in the sense of a liberty or capacity of doing an act which is not unlawful , but which is calculated seriously to injure another , will be liable to a charge of blackmail if he demands money from that other as the price of abstaining . … |
| 30 | Both ASFV and vaccinia virus particles carry a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase which is not sensitive to a-amanitin ( 1 , 7 ) , a toxin which strongly inhibits cellular RNA polymerase II ( 8 ) . |