Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I scarcely think so , ’ she said carelessly , ‘ I am not much set on jewellery , you know … ’ |
| 2 | I am not entirely convinced by Creamer 's attempt to provoke a reassessment through formal devices ; the female image is trapped within layers of muted , glazed oil paint , while a neutral , opaque band at the base of the canvas reinforces the distance between subject and viewer . |
| 3 | I am not about to confess to Rosenbloom how and why I missed that part of the story . |
| 4 | Black students , for example , are not infrequently humiliated with jokes . |
| 5 | I now know that they are not automatically exempt from prescription charges , and I draw my hon. Friend the Minister 's attention to the recommendation of the Parkinson 's Disease Society of the United Kingdom , which I support , that sufferers should be exempt from prescription charges . |
| 6 | They are not automatically exempt from criticism and occasional ridicule , however . |
| 7 | It is in this context that minorities who may feel that their causes are not adequately represented in Parliament wish to use their freedom of protest to draw attention to their plight . |
| 8 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 9 | This is important in practice because there are elements of traditional financial reports of governments that are not easily rationalized in terms of explicit users and their needs . |
| 10 | It is important to note that , in any given society , mating patterns are not easily manipulated by policy and edicts , but change in response to education , socio-cultural processes and aspects of development . |
| 11 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 12 | They can have maturity dates of anything up to 189 days , and of course by their nature are not easily controlled by suppliers . |
| 13 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |
| 14 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 15 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 16 | Second , it may be that earnings are not intrinsically related to capacity , N i , but rather that there is a partially random screening process for a given earnings distribution . |
| 17 | Higher spreads from high-yield bonds have historically overcompensated for the default rate … historical evidence indicates that general economic downturns are not closely correlated with peak high-yield default rates … |
| 18 | Most resident skin flora ( p. 74 ) are not highly virulent and are not normally implicated in infections except when prosthetic surgery or other invasive procedures are performed , or when neonates or immunocompromised patients are involved . |
| 19 | Applicants are not normally called for interview , but those given offers for our courses are invited to visit the relevant Department or School . |
| 20 | By section 1(3) , a design shall not be registered if the appearance of the article is not material ; that is , if aesthetic considerations are not normally taken into account to a material extent by persons acquiring or using articles made to the design . |
| 21 | ON SUNDAY November 22 , the Bath Area Group of the Swanage Railway Project chartered a ‘ Brakevan Tour ’ on the Severn Valley Railway for a return journey from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth taking in some loops and sidings that are not normally traversed by passenger trains . |
| 22 | the likelihood of the damage or of its being severe was due to characteristics of the animal which are not normally found in animals of the same species or are not normally so found except at particular times or in particular circumstances ; and |
| 23 | Nightmares are not normally experienced by adults in good health , though we may all experience one occasionally . |
| 24 | For example , if distinctions are not clearly maintained between sounds ( phonemes ) and letters , it becomes impossible to say things such as : |
| 25 | If criminals on the whole are not clearly differentiated from non-criminals , it is difficult to explain their crime in terms of something having gone wrong with them ( except in the tautological sense that the commission of the crime itself represents something having gone wrong with them ) . |
| 26 | But although instruments were freely used they are not clearly differentiated from voices until the Second Book of Symphoniae . |
| 27 | ‘ We are not exactly dealing in bodies , ’ said Owen . |
| 28 | If these matting agents are not thoroughly dispersed before application , then the varnishes or varnish stains will dry to a gloss . |
| 29 | Pupils are not simply presented with rules ; instead they are required to think about the new language and are guided to work out the rules of the language themselves . |
| 30 | Students are not simply presented with grammar rules — instead grammar is treated as a problem-solving activity . |