Example sentences of "[am/are] not [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Credit finance legislation is very detailed and complicated , and many lawyers are not competent to point out the basic pitfalls to unsuspecting clients . |
| 2 | Visitors to the villa arrive at the front , to be greeted by a huge work by Marino Marini , and if they are not careful see only the front . |
| 3 | Those who have absorbed this cultural tradition by long association with the extreme right , are not likely to discard easily the assumptions of their political ideology . |
| 4 | While you are not entitled to recover twice the same amount of loss , it is conceivable that you might be eligible for full compensation in respect of both claims . |
| 5 | All in Mr Honecker 's image , tough and second rate , they are not inclined to give up the hunting lodges and chauffeurs they feel are their due . |
| 6 | Ageism-awareness campaigns and anti-ageist strategies , while essential are not sufficient to bring about the level of change which is required . |
| 7 | As we have seen only the papers relevant to the subject of our review , we are not able to judge how the assessment machinery deals with areas of higher priority , but we believe that , in dealing with Argentina and the Falkland Islands , it was too passive in operation to respond quickly and critically to a rapidly changing situation which demanded urgent attention . |
| 8 | are not able to specify how the reminder treatment produces its effect but they are quite at liberty to use the unexplained phenomenon to make their central point — that the deficit in performance see in the subjects given pre-exposure stems from a failure of retrieval rather than a failure of initial acquisition . |
| 9 | Richard Goebel and his colleagues are not afraid to shake off the dust and restore the brightness , the vividness of the original … |
| 10 | I think with twins - even if they 're not nice looking just the fact there 's two of them everyone thinks they 're wonderful because there 's two of them . |
| 11 | People who are n't impulsive think through the consequences of their actions before taking decisive steps . |