Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want people to realise that a vote for us is not wasted . ’ |
| 2 | If , moreover , ‘ the senses reveal no necessities ’ ( to quote an old tag ) , then our mental grasp of it is not given by the senses . |
| 3 | the whole point about it is not to put on the act . |
| 4 | Though I too am a scholar , I mix with sultans , wherefore the visiting of me is not fitting . " |
| 5 | How much of this gravity low is attributable to the normal clastic sedimentary fill of the basin and how much to the Permian and Triassic salt beds within it is not known . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to give him the chance to tell us how this strong criticism of him is not justified . |
| 7 | ‘ My advice to you is not to waste your time reading that one , ’ he said rudely . |
| 8 | But while promoting non-shareholder interests is not a permissible management objective , the ( limited ) satisfaction of third party expectations is often a pre-requisite of maximising profits , and hence consideration of them is not precluded by the legal model . |
| 9 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 10 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 11 | Employees of outside contractors sometimes work on nuclear sites , and information about them is not held on nuclear industry 's employee databases . |
| 12 | The agouti-dispersed palm , A strocaryum stand leyanum , produces seeds that have a much smaller chance of survival if the pericarp around them is not removed and they are not buried . |
| 13 | This time around it is not going to be the consumer who leads the UK out of recession . |