Example sentences of "[conj] be not [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For whether a difference is genetic is independent of whether the different types of animals concerned are or are not influenced by experience during development . |
| 2 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 3 | Small firms that are not registered for VAT naturally do not charge it . |
| 4 | The following examples illustrates some non-trivial forms of equivalence that are not recognised by reduction to IF/ALT . |
| 5 | Species of Class III , such as , which can be regarded as a dimer , show sharp IVCT bands that are not affected by solvent , whereas Class II species such as give broad IVCT bands whose energy is sensitive to solvent . |
| 6 | The regions of the spectrum that are not affected by absorption are called atmospheric windows ( Figure 5.6 ) . |
| 7 | In general , silvicultural techniques include the regulation of regeneration , species composition and growth and may be designed to enhance aspects of forestry , such as improvement of habitats for wildlife , that are not related to timber production . |
| 8 | Wilson 's stature , it becomes increasingly clear , is dependent on the sheer variety of his talents , for he can do , effortlessly , what most novelists now fashionable could not begin to effect if faced with a firing squad — create Sylvia Calvert , for a start ; pin down a very minor , but necessary , character in a couple of sentences ; employ fictive skills to celebrate human qualities that are not marked by intellect . |
| 9 | The proposed changes follow consultations between the Inland Revenue and insurance industry representatives and the aim has been , as far as possible , to ensure that UK life offices and foreign life offices ' UK branch operations are able to compete on terms that are not distorted by tax considerations . |
| 10 | Therefore , if you decide to pick some common wild flowers that are not protected by law , take your press with you into the country so that the flowers and leaves can be pressed immediately . |
| 11 | Yearly tenancies held at rack rents ( i.e. rents that were not fixed by custom but which were negotiated by the landlord and tenant ) were common for the smaller farms and cottages and in the Midlands in particular they were usual for any property other than a freehold . |
| 12 | Those parties that were not forced into clandestinity demonstrated scant ability to formulate new strategies or even to adapt existing ones to contemporary situations . |
| 13 | Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds , |
| 14 | Nonetheless , R&D that is not related to defence has declined by about 10 per cent since Reagan took office , once inflation is accounted for . |
| 15 | The position of the subject here is quite simply that he is free to do anything that is not prohibited by law but that , by reason of the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament , anything can be prohibited or required . |
| 16 | The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides . |
| 17 | He is the weather-god that is not diminished by meteorology ! |
| 18 | The natural meaning of rule 1(4) seems to us to give the expression ‘ costs ’ a meaning that is not confined to litigation costs . |
| 19 | ] An externality occurs when the actions of one economic agent affect the welfare of others in a way that is not reflected in market prices . |
| 20 | A central feature in improved access via natural language may be a computer-based thesaurus or lexicon that is not used in indexing , but which shows all the word variants and relationships between terms that the searcher might encounter in natural language searching , and is available both for display and to expand and develop search strategies . |
| 21 | Right , however , variability is something that is n't taken into account , right , in our normal models of profit , profit maximizing behaviour . |
| 22 | On the first row , punch any position that is n't punched on row two . |
| 23 | On row four punch any position that is n't punched on row three . |
| 24 | On row five punch any position that is n't punched on row six , and so on . |
| 25 | Yeah , oh it was predictable that was n't go to work . |
| 26 | My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work . |
| 27 | A move to a single currency that was not backed by convergence between the two economies of the member states of the Community would be a recipe for economic disaster . |
| 28 | In connection with this finding , however , it should be noted that , as stated earlier , maternal age and birth order effects change with decreasing overall infant mortality ( and , thus , with socio-economic development ) , a fact that was not taken into account in that analysis ; also , the authors used a rough classification that , for instance , lumped maternal ages 10–19 , and those 35 and over , which blurred the probably stronger maleffects of very young and very old maternal ages . |
| 29 | People in Europe saw the advantages of colonies most easily when the colonies produced something valuable that was not produced at home . |
| 30 | So-called ‘ tins ’ are made in this way , and are not composed of tin itself . |