Example sentences of "[be] not [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are not keen to complain about food in hospital because they are grateful for the medical attention and because the majority of patients are not there for long . |
| 2 | Now that may not be the best way to have structured it , but some of the checks that we 're imposing at the moment are not necessary to put on paper . |
| 3 | Budgeting Loans are repayable and are not available to help towards mains fuel consumption and standing charges . |
| 4 | Grants are not available to pay for fuel bills . |
| 5 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 6 | As in so many other instances , we , at least , are not prepared to rely upon hope . |
| 7 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 8 | Quite apart from the immediate salary , they are not prepared to stay in position once the development tasks have been completed . |
| 9 | The only types of spanner you are not likely to need in plumbing are ring spanners and socket spanners . |
| 10 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 11 | At present , this option is not available under SSAP 15 , with the result that companies are not able to take into account , at the time the provisions for the obligations are set up , the tax relief that will be received when the benefits are actually paid . |
| 12 | Sir Charles also operates a miniature health service , employing a salaried apothecary who ‘ dispenses physic to all his tenants , who are not able to pay for advice ; nor are the poor who are not his tenants , refused ’ , provided they are recommended by the clergyman . |
| 13 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 14 | It can also increase your bargaining powers if the other side knows you are not afraid to go to court . |
| 15 | The branch obtained last year from Chirbury to Minsterley remains with its ground unbroken , and yet the directors of the Bishop 's Castle are not ashamed to appear in Parliament with a demand to use so much of the Cambrian as will permit the former to effect communication with the Mid-Wales , another abortion over which no one can be found to preside save Mr Whalley , and which has not yet ventured to publish a return of traffic , or to submit an account of its income and expenditure for public inspection . |
| 16 | Alright , now not all products are going to be , you know , you ca n't switch with the same amount of ease across all products , there are only , you know , if you are erm , a wheat farmer in the south east of England , alright , you 're not likely to switch into milk production just bec just because milk prices have risen . |
| 17 | We 're of the same sex , let me remind you , we 're not supposed to fall in love with one another . |
| 18 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 19 | And er the subject matter of the , the lecture is ‘ Searching the heart of humanity , to find the common bond ’ , which is of course , it 's , it 's just like my film ‘ Eternity ’ , it 's a huge , you know , it creates a huge expectation , but I 'm not afraid to step in front of people now and , and er you know , present myself and say ‘ well let's ask the big question , let's , let's go for it , so er so it should be quite a lot of fun tomorrow . |
| 20 | This had become operational in 1978 , although full earnings-related pensions were not due to come into effect until 1998 . |
| 21 | Low capitalisation tended to be a factor in stifling competition , as firms were not willing to compete on price terms if they did not have the capital backing . |
| 22 | There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward . |
| 23 | This way , DEC were able to maintain investment in PDP-11 software by those who were not prepared to upgrade to VAX immediately . |
| 24 | Most of the English practitioners were not concerned to look at literature as a method of communicating . |
| 25 | It is not possible to deal at length with all of these problems in this single chapter . |
| 26 | As it is not possible to anticipate in advance all the infinitely variable circumstances which may arise in the future , we feel ourselves , albeit reluctantly , forced to agree to a limited extent with that concession . |
| 27 | As it is not possible to anticipate in advance all the infinitely variable circumstances which may arise in the future , we feel ourselves , albeit reluctantly , forced to agree to a limited extent with that concession . |
| 28 | The result would be a black hole : a region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape to infinity . |
| 29 | It is not possible to indicate with confidence areas of former woodland , although some of the steep wooded bluffs along the river may have been so used , and there are no upland areas of permanent rough pasture . |
| 30 | Without endoscopy , it is not possible to differentiate between remission and mildly active disease ( one to four non-bloody stools/day without accompanying systemic illness ) . |