Example sentences of "[be] not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But once I have passed my test , I am not allowed out on the road without insurance .
2 Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ?
3 By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ?
4 However , standard terms are not prepared simply for the court , but for everyday use by the drafter 's business client and its trading partners ; headings and layout will help those persons to use the document , acting as convenient " road signs " to identify and locate relevant parts of the document .
5 It has also helped write rules for community cable access and worked to ensure that the poor are not cut off from the benefits of new telephone technologies .
6 These two contrasting events emphasize the central fact that even natural hazards are not defined solely by the characteristics of the event but by the interaction of those events with the human occupation of the threatened area .
7 Most workers have no idea of what is done with ‘ their ’ savings , even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management .
8 Others are not employed directly by the ruling class and work in the liberal arts and service professions .
9 This is easily done if the point cams are not placed exactly in the 24 stitch placings .
10 From this , we conclude that residues 1-193 of c-Jun are not recognised effectively by the DNA-PK even when tethered to DNA .
11 For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base .
12 An ESRC-funded study at the department of psychology of the University College of Swansea of 52 people in their twenties with Down 's syndrome found that there is obviously confusion about who can and can not vote , that there is clear overlap in the abilities of those who vote and those who do not and that decisions on voting are not made strictly on the abilities of the person with Down 's syndrome .
13 These terminological changes are not made merely for the sake of variety but because I believe the substitute terms convey their meaning more pointedly than Marx 's originals .
14 Once again , we must remember that the results are not determined only by the experimental vibration frequencies , but by various assumptions made in the course of setting up and solving the problem .
15 Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion .
16 There are over 28,000 miles of public bridleways and 6,000 miles of byways in England and Wales where cyclists legally have a right of way , but there can be a conflict of interests if certain codes of conduct are not observed elsewhere in the countryside .
17 Section 56 deals with transfers of works in electronic form and the position with respect to copies which are not transferred along with the original software .
18 Equally important , the interest and wishes of the old are not created spontaneously in the present .
19 These dithiadiazoles are held together in dimeric pairs through S — S interactions , as in , though they are not held together in the trans -type configuration , but in a variety of other orientations .
20 Some organisations provide detailed lists of items which are allowable under the disturbance allowance ; others merely state that it is intended to meet all other ‘ out-of-pocket ’ expenses incurred during relocation which are not specified elsewhere in the company 's policy .
21 To be sure , these categories are not inscribed immutably in the mind : they can be altered to accommodate new experience .
22 In many animals , including ourselves , the light receptors are not spread uniformly across the retina , but are concentrated in areas known as foveae .
23 Unfortunately , these encouraging values are not delivered simultaneously in the same machine .
24 Briefly , this is to consider that the connections and orders of various sets of events are not exhausted either by the categories of causality or of randomness ( or by both together ) .
25 ( It should be noted that these sexual hormones are not produced solely in the gonads .
26 Several of the plant species have extra-floral nectaries but almost all the plants can be found growing away from the ant nests and the ants can form nests without the plants so that , despite the apparent advantages to both plants and animals , the relationship is not obligatory , though Codonanthe spp. are not found away from the nests .
27 Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children .
28 The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings .
29 Snake and poisonous creature are strict compatibles because adder and cobra , for instance , are hyponymous to both ; furthermore , these species are independently characterisable — that is , they are not established solely on the basis of venomousness .
30 In other words the access paths for joining or separating relations are not set up with the data .
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