Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the planning system is being used to settle disputes between neighbours in a way which was never intended and for which it is not designed . |
| 2 | Here the homeworkers poorly paid job dovetails neatly into the work for which she is not paid at all . |
| 3 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 4 | Behind all of this lies the sportsman 's desire to avoid entering the world of common man , a world in which he clocks in and out and collects his wage packet , a world that seems grey , though he has never known it , a world in which he is not stretched , a world that does not bring such pain or pleasure . |
| 5 | But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) . |
| 6 | In layman 's terms , this means that the knee joint is slightly bent in a direction in which it is not intended to bend . |
| 7 | It is also likely that this view is a departure from earlier law , in which it is not attested . |
| 8 | The topic he is speaking on is one which interests him greatly ( much more so than his own lecture topic ) but it is also one on which he is not recognised as an authoritative speaker . |