Example sentences of "[noun sg] [not/n't] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Top speed not bad in its class • 0–60 and 30–70 times respectable • Well-chosen ratios , change reasonably light • Light , well-cushioned clutch , snatch-free driveline • Generously shod , plenty of grip , corners with composure • Understeers mildly , positions with encouraging precision • Strong , fade-free stopping from high speed • Instruments clear and straightforward • Visibility good • Main controls well placed • Heating and ventilation work well • Decently relaxed as a cruiser |
| 2 | He was sure that his Christianity had political consequences , but that it was religion not political panaceas that met human need . |
| 3 | Two strongly contrasted works by composers who did , however , share an optimistic view of religion not acceptable to their more conventional contemporaries . |
| 4 | It includes structures that ( according to some observers ) have facilitated policy discontinuity — a discontinuity not incompatible with an empirical orientation to change — yet comprises such an interdependent complex of political bodies that it has become increasingly difficult for government to govern and to initiate radical and comprehensive change . |
| 5 | A converted physicist not afraid of over-simplification , Valentino Braitenberg , has proposed a scheme so simple that it needs no diagram . |
| 6 | An event which occurs after the breach of duty and which contributes to the plaintiff 's damage , may break the chain of causation , so as to render the defendant not liable for any damage beyond this point . |
| 7 | However , the defendant may allege that the plaintiff 's conduct breaks the chain of causation , so as to render the defendant not liable for some , or all , of the plaintiff 's damage . |
| 8 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 9 | She felt now as if something were slipping away , leaving her mind not quiet and empty , but suddenly filled with the black debris of her own trouble . |
| 10 | Roding male flies a circuit at dusk and dawn , with an owlish flight and interrupted wing-beats , uttering two distinct notes , a rather sibilant ‘ twisick ’ and a frog-like croak or grunting growl Not gregarious . |
| 11 | Were my pond not part-raised ( and itself no design award-winner , I must confess ) , then the NBS could have been installed as a semi in-ground filter . |
| 12 | Obviously , the best kind of evidence in such cases is the evidence of ‘ independent ’ witnesses , i.e. a witness not concerned with the parties involved in the accident . |
| 13 | In those judgments the court expressly left aside the question whether the conditions at issue were in conformity with Community law in relation to fishing not subject to quotas ( see paragraph 11 of the judgment in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 14 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 15 | They would in fact be applying a test for review not dissimilar to the one about to be examined . |
| 16 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 18 | Existence of a natural isotope effect not dependent on mass complicates efforts to deduce the history of the Solar System by studying isotope ratios . |
| 19 | Anti-Virus — again licensed from Symantec , an anti-virus capability not dissimilar from Norton 's Anti-virus will be included in the package . |
| 20 | Looks very dark in flight , when lack of wing-bar separates from larger Black Grouse , and dark not rufous tail from partridges ( p. 103 ) . |
| 21 | In return he would be allowed to continue in office , with his term not due to expire until 1996 . |
| 22 | One problem encountered was the expectation in some of these professions that newly qualified staff should ‘ rotate ’ to different medical specialties thereby gaining varied experience , a practice not possible for all the disabled professionals . |
| 23 | And in sexual matters men and women will aspire to individual pleasure not proper behaviour , and go about it however they see fit , and with any luck without too much talk about it . |
| 24 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 25 | He discussed at some length the problems that arise over trying to define ideas such as ‘ compulsion ’ , and in estimating the degree of severity of pressure that could make an action not voluntary . |
| 26 | Can we make the Church real to society by turning it political ; by making its essence not old creeds but moral judgements on bombs , or on socialist policy ? |
| 27 | The negotiations are conducted on a ‘ without prejudice ’ basis and information communicated through conciliation officers is by statute not admissible at tribunal hearings unless the person who gave the information to the conciliation officer consents . |
| 28 | It will also be important with regard to s676 ( annual payment to settlement not deductible ) . |
| 29 | The effective unbanning of the African National Congress at the beginning of the decade gathered momentum very fast and the white minority was eventually forced to accept a negotiated settlement not dissimilar to that arrived at in Zimbabwe . |
| 30 | This is a privilege not available to travellers on normal ‘ service ’ trains . |