Example sentences of "which is not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality , it is a social and economic problem which is not fixed to a particular geographical space but which can transfer itself from place to place if it is not tackled at its source . |
| 2 | Of course , novelists have a license to invent their speech , and thus to heighten its qualities for dramatic impact , which is not granted to the journalist or sociologist . |
| 3 | The underlying desire , which it disguises but feeds on , is ‘ for a new for a breaking down of environmental barriers , for an aesthetic which is not limited to the sphere of the ‘ artistic ’ ’ ( ibid : 36–7 ) . |
| 4 | The plaintiff was in any case prevented from bringing an action by the statutory provision , which is not limited to a bare right of passage and is not lost by the taking of a photograph . |
| 5 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 6 | Such an area of anomalous volcanism , which is not related to processes of subduction or normal mid-oceanic ridge spreading , is termed a hot spot . |
| 7 | I would also like to draw to your attention the which is not related to accident prevention and therefore within the existing criteria does not qualify for County Council support , generally speaking . |
| 8 | does that go up as part of the management charge or part of the service charge which is not related to management ? |
| 9 | ‘ The suspension to be brought about by lack of funding which is not related to the community charge level . ’ |
| 10 | The handout which accompanies the course and contains the code for these programs has proved to be a valuable supplement to the official SASPAC91 manual , which is not geared to the needs of the typical academic user . |
| 11 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 12 | There 's a final question , which is not connected to the passage : ‘ Why did the preacher select the gospel reading that we heard a moment ago to accompany this story of Elisha ? ’ |
| 13 | Timber decay which is not owed to insect action is normally the result of fungal attack . |
| 14 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 15 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 16 | Unpredictable and volatile exchange rates are an incentive for resources to be shifted towards the non-traded goods sector which is not exposed to international competition and is largely unaffected by sizeable and unanticipated exchange rate changes . |
| 17 | Unlike many young painters , Roxy Walsh has established her reputation through work which is not bound to a particular style , technique or concern . |
| 18 | While Newco remains an investment company ( and to do so it must receive income , other than payments for group relief ) it can carry forward any excess interest which is not surrendered to Target against its future income . |
| 19 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 20 | It is possible to make a confidential complaint or include confidential annexes in complaints , although it is rare for the Commission to act on a complaint which is not disclosed to the other party . |
| 21 | In the language of sociobiology , " kinship " , outside the immediate bond of mother/infant and , perhaps , sibling/sibling , is a biological relationship which may be discovered by the research worker but which is not known to the actors in the scenario under observation . |
| 22 | The user has tried to access the details of a module which is not known to LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | Any empirical study ( a category to which lexical semantics , as outlined in this book , undoubtedly belongs ) must rest , at some point , on a body of primary data , whose factuality is not questioned , and which is not subjected to further analysis . |
| 24 | Using the root which is not drawn to scale , write down the reading running up there , running up there , running up there , giving the total . |
| 25 | These are also to be reported to colleagues under the provisional code of conduct , and any relationship which is not agreed to should be open to a sexual harassment complaint . |
| 26 | Our first decision should be whether we want to write a traditional strophic song ( each verse identical in length and metre ) , or music which is not chained to such a rigid form . |
| 27 | A director owes a fiduciary duty to the company ; there is nothing which a director can do in his or her capacity as a director which is not required to be done in good faith for the benefit of the company . |
| 28 | ( N.S. ) 709 ( ‘ a peculiar system ’ which is not required to be in accordance with common law ) . |
| 29 | Love which is not going to be fulfilled . |
| 30 | In this figure the normal profile is represented by the curve CD , which is not adapted to glacial conditions as these require aggradation upstream to the level B and erosion downstream to the level A. An excellent example of crossing profiles of this type is provided by the river Durance in southern France ( Baulig , 1950 ) . |