Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [vb pp] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have sometimes been astonished to hear the contemptuous manner in which Europeans in the Indies speak of [ Mughal architecture ] , ’ he writes , adding of the Delhi Jama Masjid : ‘ I grant that this building is not constructed according to those rules of architecture which we seem to think ought to be implicitly followed ; yet I can see no fault that offends taste . |
| 2 | Although the proportion of National Income taken in tax has risen , the UK is not overtaxed compared to other countries . |
| 3 | Although alarm is not expressed to relate to any particular source of concern , we do not usually speak of alarm in a vacuum . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , of course , this kind of sampling does not allow the deployment of statistical analysis in order to make inferences to population values from the sample , since the selection of cases within quota categories is not done according to random sampling procedures . |
| 5 | The report is not intended to lead to new regulations but to establish an agenda for HSE work . |
| 6 | A contract of hire is a species of bailment and although it is readily distinguishable from sale in that general property is not intended to pass to the hirer , there are important public policy issues in a consumer hire context , which dictate that the owner be subject to similar liability to that visited upon the seller . |
| 7 | Even following recession , energy demand is not expected to return to the levels of growth originally predicted . |
| 8 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 9 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 10 | A MOTHER lost her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against corporal punishment in school yesterday , but the judgment is not expected to lead to a reintroduction of that form of disciplinary action in Britain . |
| 11 | The issue is not expected to go to a vote . |
| 12 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 13 | She is not permitted to talk to anyone about the marriage now . ’ |
| 14 | There is hardly any modern authority which suggests , as did the judges in Clarence , that either a wife can unilaterally in certain circumstances withdraw her consent , or else that the ambit of consent is restricted so that a wife is not deemed to consent to her husband where his conduct is egregious . |
| 15 | That usage was not found in the classical texts , in which voluntas is not used to refer to the source of validity of a trust but as a criterion in assessing the content of a trust . |
| 16 | Notice that the term semantic constituent is not used to refer to a meaning only , but to a form-plus-meaning complex ; that is to say , a semantic constituent is a meaningful form ( the precise sense of meaningful intended here will be clarified below ) with a determinate grammatical function . |
| 17 | I 've just noticed she actually uses the sentence being a Green Party supporter is n't meant to appeal to everyone . |