Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 2 | I am not against the general tenor of that which is sought . |
| 3 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 4 | And I am not in a bad temper . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But I am not in the outside world , my lord , ’ smiled Joan . |
| 6 | The observed pattern , that in all directions the redshift of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from us , can be explained ( if we are not at a special place in the Universe ) only by a uniform universal expansion . |
| 7 | The external doses recorded for the fathers in our study are orders of magnitude lower than the external doses received by survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki , whose children are not at an increased risk of childhood leukaemia . |
| 8 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 9 | Votes are not for a particular person but for a list put up by a party . |
| 10 | Exuberance will characterise them , according to Robert Stern , simply because ‘ unlike the corporations of more recent times , the owners are not on a theological mission ’ . |
| 11 | When you are not on the international panel it is hard to work your way in . |
| 12 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 13 | When a movement called Christians for Socialism started in 1972 , they chose to have their inaugural meeting in Santiago and received a message from the President assuring them that ‘ Divisions today are not on the religious level or on the level of philosophic ideas : the real division is between imperialism and dependent countries . ’ |
| 14 | The royal pair are not on the Civil List . |
| 15 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 16 | A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end . |
| 17 | But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else . |
| 18 | In the unlikely event that we fail to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking or they are not of a reasonable standard , then we accept responsibility whether caused by our employees , agents or suppliers , save that ( i ) we shall not accept responsibility or liability for death , bodily injury or illness caused to you or others named on your booking form , except as set out below and ( ii ) we limit our responsibility or liability in respect of carriage by air , sea or land to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage . |
| 19 | Research suggests that fringe and Green Belt sites are generally used by local populations for informal recreation , and that facilities are not of a sufficient standard to attract people from far afield . |
| 20 | If you , the reader , are not of a scientific bent , then they may not much appeal to you and you may wish to gloss over them . |
| 21 | companies , wh wh which are not of the western world , that we 've ever come across . |
| 22 | The stillness , the poise , of perfect symmetry are not of the everyday world . |
| 23 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 24 | Counsel for all the appellants and for the Secretary of State were unanimous in their view that the appeals are not in a criminal cause or matter , and on a brief consideration of the relevant authorities I agree . |
| 25 | Desperate hurry we are not in a desperate hurry . |
| 26 | To a certain extent you are not in a good position to know what you want until you have some experience . |
| 27 | Monolingual British course members wishing to teach EFL or ESOL are certainly not better students , they do not achieve higher grades and are not in a dominant position within the group . |
| 28 | Our experience of people in that condition is that they are not in a steady state so , rightly , the prescription must be altered almost day by day according to the pain of the patient . |
| 29 | Alright all I all I 'd ask is that would you erm just mention to him what I 've said and that if he believes after discussion with you that there are some pallets which are not in a fit state to send out , and they are gon na tip over on a lorry and dislodge , then they are rejected and Pete Pete knows about it and they are they are actually isolated and rewrapped . |
| 30 | When we are not in a sexual relationship this can confirm our own negativity . |