Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spirits which are the focus of their religious concern are not regarded as being directly moralistic in such an explicit fashion as their counterparts among the Nuer . |
| 2 | The employee was therefore not dismissed and was not entitled to anything . |
| 3 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 4 | If the tendency towards crime is not seen as being already determined at the point of conception through the genes we inherit , then the obvious conclusion is that it must be subsequently acquired in some way . |
| 5 | The task-centred approach is not seen as being particularly useful in areas where there is a mental health problem , or severe mental impairment , where long-term dependency is envisaged , or where the client is unable to accept that there is a problem to be dealt with and worked on . |
| 6 | From this perspective the previously existing moral order is not seen as being wholly positive , and consequently its destruction — for both the conservative- and liberal-historians identify such a process-is not necessarily perceived as being problematic . |
| 7 | But these choices are not seen as being so individually idiosyncratic as to make crime totally unpredictable or uncontrollable . |
| 8 | For the record , trade unions were not seen as being very important , except as giving some sort of ‘ insurance ’ against low wages and loss of employment . |
| 9 | So it would seem that people in homes where they were free to have a doctor of their own choice were not seen as being more deprived of visits in spite of having fewer of them than people in homes where everyone had the same doctor . |
| 10 | This was not envisaged as being too difficult a fault to put right , and the locomotive was expected to be back in service very shortly . |
| 11 | However existing members of a scheme prior to the change taking effect ( i.e. 1 June 1989 ) are not affected and are still entitled to defer their pension under the old rules , provided their employer is agreeable . |
| 12 | The only specified penalty for the six republics which had not participated and were not expected to sign the Treaty ( Armenia , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldavia ) , was that they would thereby be excluded from a new " common economic space " . |
| 13 | One of the conclusions of this research is that nuclear families are not isolated but are actually placed in a network of relationships with kin and others . |
| 14 | Do we have any knowledge of events which we have not experienced or are not now experiencing ? |
| 15 | The actual source of life is not known and is not to be attributed to the God that mankind can worship , that is , a definable God developed with life , and therefore not responsible for its origin . |
| 16 | We shall assume that g is known and we shall treat g as the predictable component of monetary growth ; on the other hand , v t is not known and is therefore the unpredictable component . |
| 17 | Thus , Nationalism Today ( no. 42 ) asserts proudly that ‘ we are not hoodwinked as are so many of our countrymen ’ ( emphasis in original ) . |
| 18 | in this case the defender was not insured and was not licensed but an insurer was conducting a holding defence while they considered whether they should repudiate liability under a policy issued to the owner of the vehicle and persons taking the vehicle on hire . |
| 19 | For those with an anterior infarction outside hospital , atropine is clearly not indicated and is totally ineffective as the damage to the septum is usually very significant . |
| 20 | What we 're actually doing is checking the firing pin is n't broken and looking down the barrel to make sure it 's not blocked and is properly oiled . |
| 21 | His car was not spotted in the area that morning and he was not identified as being there . |
| 22 | Like the beta-blocking drugs which came into clinical use later , their effects were not predicted but were undoubtedly useful . |