Example sentences of "not [adv] [be] [vb pp] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Rome Convention can not properly be treated as determinative of the construction of article 5(1) . |
| 2 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 3 | This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law . |
| 4 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |
| 5 | In the absence of an experiment , a statistical effect of one variable on another can not just be accepted as causal at face value . |
| 6 | Or was there a wider , opportunistic yet deeply felt and unreflective vision of ‘ American leadership of the Free World ’ , a vision intoxicating in its sweep but one which could not possibly be presented as compatible with the UN terms ostensibly legitimating the entire operation . |
| 7 | We have already seen how the courts have used the Wednesbury sense of unreasonableness to invalidate exercises of discretionary power which could not realistically be regarded as absurd , or manifestly irrational . |
| 8 | Yet his team could not fairly be described as negative . |
| 9 | The skip-sequential processing of sparsely updated file areas can not now be regarded as straightforward . |
| 10 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 11 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 12 | Such " mainstream " marriages , though frequent in the sample can not however be regarded as typical ; the variety at this unstable moment in the century was so great . |
| 13 | But it was not the same as any of them , and could not seriously be dismissed as anti-black or anti-woman by anyone who took the trouble to find out the facts ; after all , as FAMILY was fond of pointing out , one of its founders was a woman of Pakistani origin ! |
| 14 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 15 | Now the Board of Practice and Procedure has a budget and w which we have already negotiated , and we 're hoping to be able to hold our presbytery clerks conference but there is nothing in the budget that could possibly cope with these additional conferences and these would therefore be new and additional expenditure , and this motion can not therefore be treated as competent . |
| 16 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |