Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 2 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 3 | Sound-broadcasting is a particular skill , not necessarily related to literary ability though impossible without it . |
| 4 | Hand contact surfaces : This is one area of disinfection not necessarily confined to high risk zones especially in catering . |
| 5 | It clearly implies that racism and ethnocentrism are not necessarily confined to white groups . |
| 6 | Tories are not much given to Freudian analysis , but one minister said , the party remained psychotic after the trauma of three years ago . |
| 7 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 8 | Like many students the world over , the young Reagan was not overly committed to academic work ; both at school and college his grades were mediocre and his principal preoccupations were sport and drama . |
| 9 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 10 | In special libraries , which are not generally attached to educational institutions , this situation does not obtain , and therefore the concept of user education may seem inappropriate . |
| 11 | The drawbacks of the LB procedure are that it is slow , not easily applied to large areas and does n't always produce a film with the desired structure . |
| 12 | Mr Major on the stump was exactly what Mr Major is in Downing Street , in a television studio , in private conversation : calm , prudent , reasonable , sympathetic , friendly , not easily moved to public passion . |
| 13 | Diana Vincent adds : ‘ For Asian girls eating disorders are much more deep-rooted and not just linked to Western attitudes to body shape , weight and dieting behaviour . |
| 14 | I would have no objection to museum collections in whatever country , when there are duplicates , being presented that is given , not just loaned to other museums . |
| 15 | Specialised computing functions were not just confined to scientific and mathematical calculators . |
| 16 | Mrs Beeson was not normally given to strong language ; most certainly not in a loud voice — and most certainly not in an Australian accent ! |
| 17 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Hamilton ( Mr. Robertson ) is not usually given to fanciful rhetoric , and if he studies the movement of opinion in Europe he must know that since Maastricht more and more people have begun to comment on the future of Europe in the same sort of way as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I did before . |
| 19 | As Kennedy 's secretary of state , Dean Rusk ( a man not usually given to sweeping statements ) later commented : " We ca n't break with Britain . |
| 20 | Although not formally linked to other current multilateral negotiations , the signing of an Open Skies treaty was widely regarded as an important means of facilitating agreement on verification questions at the Vienna CFE negotiations . |
| 21 | Not directly related to current post but may improve performance . |
| 22 | Even where they are not directly linked to major matters of public policy , industrial relations may have a political resonance far beyond their apparent importance , entering the terrain of political symbolism : as exemplified perhaps by the gesture of Franco in intervening to prevent the closure of a railway workshop in Andalucía ( Sur , 30 March 1968 ) . |
| 23 | The Christians not unnaturally responded to Muslim protests with alarm . |
| 24 | Certainly there is evidence that their distribution is very patchy and not always related to known housing need ( figure 5.5 ) . |
| 25 | Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film . |
| 26 | Individual tasks are not clearly related to whole projects , or the overall goals of the organisation , owing to specialisation of work . |
| 27 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 28 | Those who do their best but , for reasons for which they may not be to blame , are not temperamentally suited to deep involvement in the special problems of the elderly , may have other talents for caring . |
| 29 | They 're , they 're not really related to true finances . |
| 30 | Several studies , for example , show that policy outputs vary from authority to authority in a manner which is not simply related to differing resources or needs . |