Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty . |
| 2 | And if pupils are not taught the basic disciplines of rhythm — then things become impossible . |
| 3 | ‘ They are not clear on their objectives and are not given the technical tools to use on the field so that they can not play to their potential . |
| 4 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 5 | ‘ If we are not to waste the two days , we ought to focus on something concrete . |
| 6 | Serious buyers are not seeking the homely smells of baking or the aroma of coffee beans . |
| 7 | Police say they are not linking the two incidents . |
| 8 | Those referred to at the beginning of this chapter , the dieters who think they ca n't shed weight on 1,000 calories a day , almost invariably belong to the can't-get-away-with-anything group and are not following the essential rules of calorie counting sufficiently strictly . |
| 9 | The two baselines are not measuring the same behaviours This happens if the PB and CB definitions are ambiguous . |
| 10 | We 're not suffering the devastating cutbacks other institutions have had to endure — institutions more dependent on government money . ’ |
| 11 | You 're not needing the pink ones ? |
| 12 | Now they 're not applying the same rules and regulations in Savac and Sarouac , it 's the island peninsular , maybe their reaction to the Friends of the Earth is symptomatic of a certain degree of bad conscience that they have with the , with the other two . |
| 13 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 14 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 15 | But I think Colin your main concern was n't it that perhaps we were n't hitting the right slots and ? |
| 16 | These include power to strike out an application because the applicant is not taking the proper steps to further the claim , or because it is ‘ scandalous , frivolous or vexatious ’ . |
| 17 | The other ‘ player ’ in the communication game is not observing the customary rules . |
| 18 | My point is not to criticize the theoretical deficiencies of these statements . |
| 19 | It is clear that while Althusser compares the ‘ science ’ of Marxism with the ‘ science ’ of the material sciences , he is not describing the same features as would traditional sociologists or philosophers . |
| 20 | The State Department is pleased the Turkish government is not letting the legal costs deter it from pursuing its claim to the Lydian hoard . |
| 21 | It should be noted that the purpose is not to discuss the various dimensions of inequality affecting women and minority groups . |
| 22 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 23 | Whilst this may look like easy fun for those who did not have to cope with the impossible timetables and endless pressures , the reason for criticism is not to deride the working groups but to understand in concrete terms the limitations of the system now in operation . |
| 24 | Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved . |
| 25 | There was however one problem , it was not reaching the Protestant churches , as it was exclusively Roman Catholic . |
| 26 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
| 27 | I was not observing the Christian decencies for getting thumped . |
| 28 | In August 1306 , at the pope 's request , Amanieu VII was granted the lordship of Meilhan in the Bazadais by Edward I. The grant was not to prejudice the existing rights of another lord , Auger de Mothe , to levy a lucrative toll or péage at Meilhan , but Albret willingly agreed to this because he and Auger had been ‘ companions and friends since their youth ’ ( a suis juventutibus fuerant socii et amici ) . |
| 29 | There were interesting implications here , if Orrie was n't imagining the prying fingers ; as why should he ? |
| 30 | Most of it , certainly , but — in the way a doctor always judges character as a routine diagnostic procedure — I wondered if she was n't repressing the normal feelings of a woman . |