Example sentences of "[conj] be not [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | People in Europe saw the advantages of colonies most easily when the colonies produced something valuable that was not produced at home . |
| 24 | So-called ‘ tins ’ are made in this way , and are not composed of tin itself . |
| 25 | But this argument is weakened when democratic arrangements break down and are not replaced by socialism , as has frequently occurred in industrializing countries . |
| 26 | Organically farmed crops are not sprayed with any chemical pesticides and are not treated with nitrogen , potassium or phosphate fertilisers . |
| 27 | Such Byzantine domes are visible externally and are not obscured by timber roofing . |
| 28 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 29 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 30 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |