Example sentences of "not normally [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Beeson was not normally given to strong language ; most certainly not in a loud voice — and most certainly not in an Australian accent ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Children whose families have come from other countries may have a whole range of skills that are not normally recognised in English schools . |
| 4 | Scottish solicitors ' accounts in English legal aid cases are not normally taxed by Taxing Masters in England , but under an informal arrangement are referred for scrutiny to the Central Committee Taxation Department . |
| 5 | Women could not normally inherit in other ancient Near Eastern countries , but in Israel the ruling is given that brotherless daughters may inherit . |
| 6 | The sale attracted a large proportion of new faces not normally seen at Old Master sales , attracted by the Spanish subject matter and willing to purchase works which were by no means new to the market in a number of cases . |
| 7 | Certainly platelets do not normally adhere to arterial endothelium if it is not damaged but the explanation for this antithrombotic property of intact endothelium remains obscure . |
| 8 | Therefore , in an unexpected contrast with the uplands , informal recreation sites in the urban fringe do not normally suffer from recreational over-use . |
| 9 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 10 | Invading bacteria known as the transient flora , particularly food poisoning bacteria , will not normally survive on healthy skin . |
| 11 | Although not normally distributed on initial testing , the data were rendered normal by logarithmic transformation . |
| 12 | He said he would ‘ come out fighting ’ — a style not normally associated with annual Conservative conferences . |
| 13 | Strong , virile performances of two of the finest of all Tudor settings of the Mass come from the choir of St John 's College Cambridge on a label not normally associated with early music , mid-price EMI Eminence . |
| 14 | After the match , Baxter allegedly took Puskas on a right royal bender which ended in a flat in Drumchapel , an area not normally associated with high class society . |
| 15 | therefore involve teaching a child to make phonemic contrasts which are not normally associated with phonological development ( Ingram 1976 ) . |
| 16 | Marconi simulation Ltd have installed the equipment to enable reactor staff to experience fault recognition and rectification in situations that would not normally happen in everyday operations . |
| 17 | They would not normally interfere in local decisions about where new housing would be located , unless such decisions clearly breached Government guidelines . |
| 18 | Resistance to change is not normally articulated in frank terms of party advantage . |
| 19 | Non-pelagic species , which do not normally come into direct contact with ice , appear to avoid freezing simply by supercooling ; their fluids remain ice-free even 1–2°C below freezing point . |
| 20 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |
| 21 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 22 | Until 1990 , the waiver agreement required that a law centre should not normally deal in particular matters , save in an emergency or for the provision of initial advice , or for other carefully circumscribed reasons . |
| 23 | They remained so throughout the nineteenth century and were not normally trusted with public office . |
| 24 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |