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Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’
2	In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat .
3	Even so , the potential gain from a lower rate — even if it had been negotiable through the International Monetary Fund — is not easy to estimate because of the problems of relative elasticities of demand for both exports and imports and the problem of the cost effects of higher import prices , not least as they would have affected wage bargaining [ Ball , 1967 ] .
4	Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn .
5	It is not hard to see that in Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound is centrally concerned with just this question , and is defending his own scale of priorities against Hewlett 's or Newbolt 's .
6	However , if we acknowledge that family communications follow a pattern developed over time , and this can be usefully observed and adapted with younger families , is it not reasonable to assume that with older families too such a process could be helpful in some cases ?
7	‘ I have to play with pain-killing injections and I 'm not able to train except for a short time doing set-pieces on a Friday . ’
8	And so we see they were not able to enter because of unbelief .
9	It seems not unreasonable to argue that in a modern primary school all staff , and especially those with formal responsibilities of any kind over and above the class-teacher role , should have clear and properly negotiated job specifications .
10	It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place .
11	It is , therefore , not surprising to discover that in some , though not all , export oriented zones ( EOZs ) the rights of workers to organize is curtailed , either formally or in practice , and that trade unions are either suppressed or manipulated through government-TNC collaboration ( see Edgren , 1982 ) .
12	Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees .
13	The Court of Appeal dismissed the application , holding that the judgment was interlocutory and the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right under rule 2 ( a ) of the New Zealand ( Appeals to the Privy Council ) Order 1910 , as amended .
14	But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board .
15	The petitioner now petitions for special leave to appeal on the ground that the Court of Appeal were in error on 4 November 1991 when they decided that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right .
16	When the Court of Appeal held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right , the court was unfortunately and inadvertently and erroneously informed that the cancellation issue had not been finally determined by the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on 4 October 1991 .