Example sentences of "is not [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the eight with stage I disease , five had tumoural involvement of the stomach which would have required total gastrectomy , a procedure with a high morbidity rate and one that is not justified with a well tolerated , slowly progressing disease . |
| 2 | is not justified on a general reading of that case . |
| 3 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 4 | Hence , the requirement for very large rates of return is not justified from a shareholder-wealth viewpoint . |
| 5 | it is not painted on a wall : |
| 6 | If your aircraft is not painted in a standard colour you will often find details of the exact type and colour in the airframe log book . |
| 7 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 8 | Therefore , the protective effect of heparin treatment against reinfarction and mortality is not offset by a rebound after stopping treatment . |
| 9 | Section 50A states that copyright is not infringed by a lawful user making an additional copy of a computer program for back-up purposes if doing so is necessary to the lawful use . |
| 10 | IBM was one of the first to develop the idea of' core' employees , though this concept is not stated as a policy . |
| 11 | Ideally , the product should also run on a range of platforms so that the user is not tied to a single source of hardware . |
| 12 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 13 | Second , since it is raised by the salesperson , the buyer is not placed in a position where , having raised a problem , he feels that he must defend it . |
| 14 | It is not limited to a particular place . |
| 15 | Unlike the Magistrates ' Court , the Crown Court 's jurisdiction is not limited to a given area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Secondly , because the horse is not locked into a certain form of behaviour by habit , it will have more flexibility of mind about doing new things and it will be more easily motivated to learn something different . |
| 18 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 19 | ‘ The member shall ensure that a person is not appointed as a company representative of that member except on terms which impose on him a duty to act in the performance of his functions as a company representative in such a way as to comply with the code of conduct ; … |
| 20 | Like Burroughs ' Naked Lunch , it carries a directive that the sections can be read in any order but , unlike B. S. Johnson 's The Unfortunates , it is not presented as a boxed set . |
| 21 | But man is not made for a solitary , self-sufficient existence . |
| 22 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
| 23 | The choice of research topic is not made in a vacuum , but is influenced both by the researcher and by the context in which the research is to be done . |
| 24 | To maintain this focus , the book does not dwell much on forms of expert determination where the decision is not made by a third party or the decision is interim . |
| 25 | It has two essential components : identification of the debt and a clear statement that proceedings will be issued if payment is not made within a certain period , say ten days . |
| 26 | If the business is not transferred as a going concern the common law position will apply , and the employees will remain with the vendor if the purchaser does not wish to employ them . |
| 27 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 28 | Ambivalence poses the crucial problem of enforcement for regulatory agencies and their field staffs , because their authority is not secured on a perceived moral and political consensus about the ills they seek to control . |
| 29 | The social class bias in university entrance is not matched by a corresponding bias in university performance . |
| 30 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |