Example sentences of "[noun] not [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernest Valko , who was appointed the chair of the court , declared on Feb. 12 that all the judges had accepted a recommendation not to be active politically . |
| 2 | Brouhaha not to be confused with the Merseyside-inspired Brouhaha Festival being held in Budapest this year are staging a play about that most British of talking-points , the weather . |
| 3 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |
| 4 | He was , it seems , familiar enough with the nature of lesbians and gay oppression not to be surprised or swayed by this , but many of his colleagues in the Labour Party were horrified . |
| 5 | So give her reasons not to be naughty . |
| 6 | In Northend ( Inspector of Taxes ) v White and Leonard and Corbin Greener and Others ( The Times , 26th February 1975 ) , a firm of solicitors receiving interest on a general client account with a bank was held in this case not to be entitled to earned income relief in respect of the interest because it had not been earned in return for professional services and was not ‘ immediately derived ’ from the carrying on of their profession . |
| 7 | I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’ |
| 8 | It would be typical of her young sister not to be able to see anyone else 's point of view . |
| 9 | But it was a struggle not to be ordinary to him . |
| 10 | I still miss him and it is a struggle not to be unfair to Steve Martin , who now plays the exasperated central figure of Father Of The Bride ( PG , Odeons West End and Marble Arch ) . |
| 11 | He has a strong responsibility not to be content with the status quo , but to exert himself to try to find an answer , community to community , to settle the dispute . |
| 12 | He understood literature not to be formal craft , but instead viewed writing as a bodily process , a process which he experienced as wreaking pain , suffering , and destruction on his own body ( Sellin 1968 , p. 83 ) . |
| 13 | A rare defence decision not to be controversial . |
| 14 | They are all angry , they are desolate , but they have made a rational decision not to be bitter . |
| 15 | A search for discrepancies was agreed to be the best avenue of research and one of the more convincing arguments put forward for the work not to be genuine was that the Kouros combines stylistic elements that run from early to late sixth century BC . |
| 16 | There is such a variety of textured yarns available today that it would be a pity not to be adventurous with them . |
| 17 | It 's a pity not to be able to recommend any books by Noam Chomsky himself . |
| 18 | IWOULD urge Jayne Greenwell not to be concerned about her son 's religious instruction . |
| 19 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 20 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 21 | Stag hunting in Scotland and many people Fox hunt , hare hunting is another field sport not to be confused with people who shoot rabbits . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a question not of being racialist but of being realistic ? |
| 23 | And with this would come a second liberation for women , the freedom to transcend the roles set up by figures like Annie Lennox and Janet Jackson , and to recover the right not to be strong , independent , immaculately in control . |
| 24 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 25 | Authority also exists for the prohibition of discriminatory treatment , and for the right not to be subject to cruel and unusual punishment derived from the Bill of Rights . |
| 26 | Scholars have not been four weeks connected with the school up to the Sabbath preceding the Festival not to be eligible for admission . |
| 27 | Jennie told Katharine not to be afraid to use the outside rein quite strongly when he was over bending . |
| 28 | It 's a bad place not to be able to get underground . " |
| 29 | A shame not to be able to hear , but he knew if he took one more step towards them the scene would break up and he would lose them . |
| 30 | It is actively supported by a small part of the population , and tacitly tolerated by many more , out of either fear or a simple desire not to be involved in a political battle . |