Example sentences of "are not the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are not the chances around these days as there were some years ago . |
| 2 | National brewing giants such as Allied or Whitbread , though , are not the only villains ; small independent firms can be just as insensitive in their treatment of their tied houses . |
| 3 | Garden centres are not the best places to buy hedging plants in large numbers : specimens are usually larger than is ideal ( large plants take longer to establish ) and more expensive than small plants bought by the dozen or hundred from specialist nurseries . |
| 4 | I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making . |
| 5 | More exercises and more repetitions are not the answer to correcting poor arm development — it is better to do fewer exercises and repetitions and to take more rest . |
| 6 | These are not the expensive-looking , beautifully crafted works of art found in old school laboratories . |
| 7 | The pages on Pound are not the only ones worth reading . |
| 8 | ‘ Contracts of employment are agreements between employers and their staff - they are not the business of government , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
| 10 | Tax advantages are not the only factor making donations to the arts so popular among rich Americans . |
| 11 | The Romans may be the chief enemies in the books , but they are not the only ones who would like to suppress Asterix . |
| 12 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |
| 13 | Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge , but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge . |
| 14 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 15 | Of course , the problem can be expressed in economic terms — the maintenance of a given number of aged people in the conditions of modern society is relatively more costly than in the past : in accommodation , in service , and in attention — but , as I say , money benefits and subsidies are not the heart of the matter . |
| 16 | Durkheim commented on the difficulty of regarding ‘ an enlightened Catholic of to-day as a sort of retarded savage ’ , but he provided the reminder that ‘ the most primitive religions are not the only ones which have attributed this power of propagation to the sacred character ’ . |
| 17 | This process leads to concepts , ideas , valued , and institutions , which , although they are not the direct result of individual production , are the indirect product of the process of production undertaken as a social task . |
| 18 | Ideas and concepts may thus be in fact misleading as to the real condition of existence ; they are not the reflection of the economic system but the product of a complex historical process of changing adaptation . |
| 19 | The two things are not the same , and , although Marx and Engels are not very clear , they do attempt to distinguish them . |
| 20 | Marx seems to suggest that the gens can actually co-exist with de-facto familial groupings and stable sexual relationships , but these familial groupings are not the basis of political and economic organization , and so the ‘ constitution ’ of the tribe remains communal . |
| 21 | Worthy as such sentiments may be , they are not the stuff of powerful drama . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher argues that sanctions are not the right course and only consensus will work . |
| 23 | There is some kind of epidemic of withdrawals going around Crystal Palace this year , and the Norwegians are not the only side to have suffered . |
| 24 | Remember that quotations and estimates are not the same thing , and that a low estimate can very easily turn into a high bill . |
| 25 | It has had , since its inception , an adversarial relationship with governments and its activists are not the sort of people with whom Conservative governments easily make friends , particularly when they block the outflow pipe of nuclear processing plants such as the one at Sellafield in Cumbria . |
| 26 | THE allied forces are not the only people fighting Saddam Hussein . |
| 27 | The result is an inflation rate double that of the other large OECD economies , and interest rates that have to be kept higher than they otherwise would be — because moneymen , on the whole , are not the most trusting ( read gullible ) of types . |
| 28 | ARM British and French congratulations to Mr Helmut Kohl for his allies ' victory in the East German election are not the best gauge of how the West German chancellor is viewed in London and Paris . |
| 29 | But takeovers are not the same as bankruptcies . |
| 30 | Banks are important and often do take a leading role , but they are not the spider . |