Example sentences of "and [adv] not [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debt-free and so not hampered by high interest rates , they are nimble enough and liquid enough to take advantage of the recession . |
| 2 | In Cocks v. Thanet DC the House of Lords applied this rule and held that an applicant who wanted to challenge a decision of a local authority to the effect that he was intentionally homeless and so not entitled to be housed , had to use AJR procedure because his only rights in respect of the decision were public law rights , namely that the decision would be made in accordance with rules of public law . |
| 3 | There are a number of reasons why crimes are not reported to the police and thus not recorded in the official criminal statistics . |
| 4 | Naturally , there has been controversy concerning the status of these Minoan settlements , but they are identifiable by their coastal location , irregular street plan , Minoan style of architecture , Minoan burial customs , Minoan shapes worked in local pottery wares ( and thus not imported from Crete ) , and Minoan religious ritual . |
| 5 | Could the bursts of gamma rays detected by astronomers over the past decade , and still not accounted for , possibly be white holes ? |
| 6 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We were on about Saturdays , having Saturdays to oursen finally you know , instead of having to go here there and everywhere not bothered about afternoon , I meant night times and that |
| 8 | ‘ We have tamed her on our travels , I think , and yet not taken from her that which is precious . ’ |
| 9 | Counsel for the defenders submitted essentially that the Lord Ordinary had erred in law in concluding that the declaration in the application form was part of a contract between the pursuers and the Alliance Building Society to which the provisions of the act applied , rather than concluding that the declaration was non-contractual in character and accordingly not caught by the provisions of the act so far as applicable to Scotland . |
| 10 | DNA is extremely stable , whereas blood , especially from the right colon , may be degraded by bacteria and subsequently not detected by the guaiac method . |
| 11 | The late '40s means ‘ bebop ’ , much harder and faster than the ‘ swing ’ tempos of the '20s and '30s , and certainly not intended for dance halls . |
| 12 | The number of UK groups reached 300 in the early 1980s and has remained around that level ever since — groups of very high quality and certainly not based on ‘ ephemeral enthusiasms ’ ! |
| 13 | I 've learnt that life is deeper than I 'd thought and certainly not meant to be skimmed along . |
| 14 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 15 | If a profit is equivalent to surplus labour , then the capitalist , in keeping a larger share of the surplus than is given to the workers , is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from them , although what amounts to theft is written into an agreement and therefore not recognised as such . |
| 16 | There appears to be only three front ranking firms not involved and therefore not covered by the ban — CL-Alexanders Laing & Cruickshank , Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers and Hoare Govett . |
| 17 | The last term I was at school , I was eighteen , and therefore not entitled to a half-price season ticket . |
| 18 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a managing director was not an employee of his company and therefore not entitled to a redundancy payment from the Department of Employment when the company became insolvent . |