Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] is not " in BNC.

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1 Under section 89(2) and ( 3 ) the company may allot shares in accordance with that provision which is not to be treated as inconsistent with section 89(1) within the meaning of section 91 .
2 Only a Russian would find all that surprising , or fail to understand that freedom which is not misused is not freedom at all .
3 But this was not due , it is suggested , to the absence of any proprietary interest on their part , but because of the restrictive attitude of the law towards the recovery of pecuniary loss which is not the consequence of a tangible , physical injury .
4 Where the defendant is no longer in possession of the plaintiff 's goods because , for example , he has destroyed them or disposed of them , the plaintiff 's remedy is judgment for the value of the goods together with any consequential loss which is not too remote .
5 ( 2 ) During an offer neither the offeror nor the board of the target company may provide information to some shareholders which is not made available to all .
6 In this case it is not a matter of constructing a trust ex nihilo , since one is already involved .
7 Clearly , in this case it is not possible to offer precise advice as to exactly when the time comes for the GP to be informed .
8 On the facts of this case it is not necessary for me to decide whether that view is right or wrong , and I should not decide it ; the point should be left open for full argument in a case where it is necessary to the decision .
9 In this case it is not .
10 In this case it is not in fact accurate to say that the contract is avoided or frustrated ; the contract remains and its provisions apply .
11 As in scene five , Anderson risks a loss of positive face , but in this instance he is not under an obligation to take a turn .
12 However , in some cases it is not possible to determine the cause without costly excavation and it may be more economical to re-lay the pipes .
13 In some Branches it is not possible to provide the customer with a full banking service for parts of the day , as staff are under pressure and can not cope .
14 Although curtains are sometimes made up in this fabric it is not always satisfactory as it can be rather stiff .
15 On November 18 at Birmingham NEC the current WBO champion Nigel Benn meets Chris Eubank ( pictured ) , a British boxer who is not entirely enamoured of his sport : ‘ It 's a mug 's game , ’ he says on p130
16 However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management .
17 Under this practice it is not possible to draw any meaningful distinction between ‘ formal ’ or ‘ informal ’ service , or between service ‘ accepted voluntarily ’ and ‘ enforced ’ service .
18 Colleagues , there are many more examples of this crime which is not a crime .
19 In some African francophone countries it is not unusual for government data-processing offices to close down for lack of paper .
20 In my judgment , therefore , the court exercising the inherent jurisdiction in relation to a 16- or 17-year-old child who is not mentally incompetent will , as a matter of course , ascertain the wishes of the child and will approach its decision with a strong predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes .
21 In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on .
22 Sometimes the final stage of the journey is made by local chartered coach which is not so well equipped , but we do make comfort stops for smokers and sometimes for meals , at the discretion of the crew , at all stages of the journey .
23 If the plaintiff 's alleged contributory negligence fails this test it is not necessary to go any further ( s. 1(1) ) .
24 The percentage in the present sample is fifteen ( six out of forty ) ; on this score it is not unrepresentative .
25 Another point which is not always recognised is that covert research can itself impose severe restrictions on the kinds of questions that one may legitimately ask and the sorts of people to whom one may have access .
26 Therefore a firm would have to wait three months before they could determine this charge which is not timely for management purposes .
27 These examples show that technological innovation is a messy process which is not easily managed .
28 Yes it would , it would not be properly to , to just make one comment and that is that the next five hundred thousand that the local is therefore two point six million from the reserve fund , that is substainable for two and a half years it is not substainable beyond .
29 But where the landlord has no such obligations , then in the absence of an express right he is not entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out repairs even where the tenant has failed to repair and is in breach of covenant ( Regional Properties Ltd v City of London Real Property Co Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 64 ) .
30 This is not to bring in the doctrine of informed consent which is not the law of this country .
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