Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 2 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 3 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 4 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 5 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 6 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 7 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 8 | Because the Delta design incorporates leading edge spars which are not fixed to the spine , and can therefore flex , they are self-adjusting for a broad variance in wind speeds . |
| 9 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
| 10 | The effects of stimulation are ‘ all-or-none ’ : either a saccade is elicited or it is n't , and its size and direction are not related to the intensity or frequency of stimulation in the colliculus . |
| 11 | The economic differences are that taxes are not related to the services which taxpayers might receive from the authority ; whereas rents paid by individuals are directly related to their occupancy of council houses . |
| 12 | The person who makes the arrangements with the funeral director may be considered to have entered into a binding contract , and become responsible for the cost , even if they are not related to the deceased . |
| 13 | The goods are not related to the cash , camera , jewellery or other items stolen from the two women when they were killed . |
| 14 | Nonetheless there are certain consequences which we may notice : First , an obvious prediction from ( 47 ) is that , once again , adjectives which are not ascribed to the entity of the noun would be ungrammatical if put into this position . |
| 15 | Furthermore , women are not tied to the kitchen sink in the way often caricatured by feminist writers . |
| 16 | They will need to take account of meaning , of appropriateness to audience and purpose , and of structure — since , unlike and , some of the alternative connectives are not tied to the beginning of the sentence , e.g. : |
| 17 | Because of this wide range , most computer designs are not tied to the details of individual devices , but provide generalized transput control features and instructions , to which any selected input , output , or backing storage device may be interfaced . |
| 18 | This is useful for fields containing data such as passwords ( which are not echoed to the screen for security reasons ) where it is impossible to see if the field already contains characters . |
| 19 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 20 | The riders are not strapped to the car in any way and it 's clear that falling off would have serious consequences . |
| 21 | I should prefer that the appointments are not given to the governors of the banks of individual member states . |
| 22 | A further point in university libraries is that storage costs , though real enough , are not charged to the librarian 's budget . |
| 23 | However , SFX are not limited to the work of those designated in the credits or cited in the Academy Awards as visual effects or sound effects specialists ; they can also be the task of the make-up artist , the stuntman/woman , even the costumier . |
| 24 | The effects of too much alcohol are not limited to the person who drinks . |
| 25 | The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket , says Raoul Pinnell , Prudential 's marketing director . |
| 26 | Research and study problems are not limited to the area of crime and criminals . |
| 27 | In the most traditional houses these are not connected to the electricity supply , and on special occasions can be fitted with candles . |
| 28 | Conversely we are not sensitised to the possibility of sociocultural differences between the sexes , because they seem to share a culture and a history in common , living as they do in close proximity . |
| 29 | The collapse is possible because many of the ribs are not joined to the sternum , and those that do join make contact by long flexible cartilages . |
| 30 | In culture , the cells are not exposed to the factors that cells in the spleen or marrow might secrete or other factors circulating in the blood . |