Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not making this sacrifice for nothing . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately we are not taught these things at school , and there are very few organisations offering practical , effective methods that really work . |
| 3 | Seventy-seven per cent think the youth of today are not taught proper standards of behaviour and 76 per cent thought parents allow their children too much freedom . |
| 4 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Mr Irons and Mr Nicholson have made clear that they are not taking any view on the sale of works from the Torrie Collection until the legal issue of their position as trustees is settled . |
| 6 | Verify with the LIFESPAN Manager that online LIFESPAN users are not experiencing any problems with LIFESPAN and that there are no System Errors in the LIFESPAN error log . |
| 7 | If these actions fail to resolve the problem , verify with the LIFESPAN Manager that online LIFESPAN users are not experiencing any problems with LIFESPAN and that there are no System Errors in the LIFESPAN error log . |
| 8 | The builders are not using any nails in the construction , in an effort to build an authentic cultural centre . |
| 9 | However , despite the fact that Lord Hartington , the Chief Steward , appeared to bolster this view by saying : ‘ We are not forfeiting any power to Mr Haines . |
| 10 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 11 | It would be implicit that City employees know that they are not to use confidential information for the purposes of insider dealing . |
| 12 | ‘ You are not to use that kind of language ! ’ |
| 13 | SIR — It has already been reported that , contrary to official policy , the scientific merits of candidates for academic promotion in Italy are not given primary consideration by the members of the judging commission , so it often happens that a loser has a curriculum vitae ( c.v. ) clearly superior to that of a winner . |
| 14 | All too often patients and their families are not given enough information about planning the convalescent period , about continued medications and treatments , expected rate of progress , and return to employment . |
| 15 | But I know people are not given any time in F1 . |
| 16 | If you are not given sufficient notice in accordance with your contract , the Consolidation Act provides that the termination date for certain purposes will be when either : |
| 17 | They informed the Headmaster in April that " the 39 Articles are not to form any part of the tuition of the Schools and are not to be enforced " . |
| 18 | It is not to be taken seriously — of course , electrons do not " choose " — but it is somehow irresistible for physicists to talk in this way , at least informally when they are not writing grave papers for their colleagues . |
| 19 | In many cases you are not getting extra cover at all . |
| 20 | Specifically in Highways and Planning , if you look at the previous report , the enclos following profile one , you will see that in the Highways Planning Department excepting the offices , it is almost entirely male , and I think this is , it 's for the Director of Highways and Planning to say in the end , I think this is an acknowledgement by him that in the way that you mentioned nevertheless it seems to be apparent in some way , shape or form , women are not getting equal opportunity in that department . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyone who is concerned that environmental issues are not getting sufficient hearing in the campaign and wants to know where the main candidates stand is welcome to attend . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , it seems likely that many of the studies of memory for arousing stimuli ( e.g. Christianson & Loftus , 1991 ; Christianson et al. , 1991 ) are not showing any effects at all which should be directly attributed to the subject 's general level of arousal . |
| 23 | If you are not allowed that kind of release for yourself , it may be intolerable for you to see someone else using it . |
| 24 | That is , in building a framework for the analysis of topic , we are not adding any machinery to the apparatus of the discourse analyst which he does not have to employ already . |
| 25 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 26 | We are not asking critical questions about Learning . |
| 27 | If we are not having that conversation at the initial design stage when the total project for production is certainly many months ahead if not years ahead . |
| 28 | Complain to your local authority , community health council or MP if the school or hospital meals in your area are not putting enough emphasis on healthy eating . |
| 29 | We shall generally ignore paralinguistic features in spoken language in this book since the data we shall quote from is spoken by co-operative adults who are not exploiting paralinguistic resources against the verbal meanings of their utterances but are , rather , using them to reinforce the meaning . |
| 30 | They also believe that the northern industrialised countries and the larger developing countries are not giving sufficient priority to preventing the rise of sea levels . |