Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As stressed earlier , I am not arguing for a revived regional geography per se , but rather for ‘ a regional perspective that informs all geographical activity ’ Johnston , 1990b , p. 135 ) . |
| 2 | No , I am not going to a fancy dress party , but to work . |
| 3 | And horrified Superintendent Peter Edwards of British Transport Police , said : ‘ We are very fortunate we are not dealing with a major disaster . |
| 4 | If you are not leaving with a sour taste in your mouth , it may be viable for you to enter into an agreement with the company that you will continue to provide it with the benefit of your expertise , pursuant to a consultancy agreement . |
| 5 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 6 | Although there are many laws on the statute book ( often dating from colonial administration ) , they have either become dead letters or are not integrated into a coherent national conservation programme ( FAO Soils Bulletin No. 30 , 1976b , lists various legislation for different countries ) . |
| 7 | These themes are not integrated into a tight ideological system , which can compute attitudinal positions with the precision of a mathematical formula . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | Note that if national currencies are not replaced by a single union currency and the as if assumption is met , then intra-union exchange rates will be fixed even if they are not de jure fixed . |
| 10 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 11 | By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals . |
| 12 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 13 | A package which is to be submitted for approval/has already been submitted for approval includes modules which are not listed on a corresponding Design Change ( DC ) . |
| 14 | With reference to old people of over 75 , who are here our main concern , there is a further aspect of ageist stereotyping which is prevalent and regrettable ; that is , the tendency to make negative assumptions about the capacities of individual old people which are not based on a proper appraisal of their state . |
| 15 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 16 | Perhaps , though regrettably , they are not seen as a central core of independence which may reside elsewhere-'in my head or in my dreams ' . |
| 17 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |
| 18 | People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited . |
| 19 | Land prices are already rising at the moment er in this region , even though house prices are not rising at a commensurate level . |
| 20 | Any limitation on the suspension of rent should be resisted unless there is included in the lease a clause allowing surrender where the premises are not reinstated within a given period of time . |
| 21 | On the other hand , such schemes inevitably create anomalies : chosen beneficiaries are often no more ‘ worthy ’ of compensation than other victims of government action who are not covered by a similar scheme . |
| 22 | These applications are not regarded as a mere formality by most courts which may require the originating application to state the grounds in proper detail , for example that the lessor may require to occupy at the expiration of the lease ; that the premises are temporarily surplus to the needs of the lessor ; that the lessee has indicated that he only requires the premises for a limited period ; that there is to be development at the expiration of the term ; that the lessor is only prepared to grant if the section is excluded ; that exclusion of the section has been taken into consideration in negotiations for the rent , or possibly that the premises form part of other premises which brings the provisions of management of the whole into question if the section is not excluded . |
| 23 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 24 | These are not strictly part of our ‘ urban ’ concerns , but they do show how Harré 's and Goffman 's ideas , as well as Giddens 's concept of ‘ locale ’ are not limited to a particular scale . |
| 25 | The jaws are armed with blunt papillae which are not arranged in a regular series . |
| 26 | Questions 1 to 4 cover considerations necessary for any type of intervention but they are not arranged in a logical , systematic order . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the slips are not arranged in a chronological order and documents relating to the early modern period are scattered throughout the calendar . |
| 28 | Like gangs , bullies are not looking for a stand-up fight , but for a victim ; the best way to beat them is to give more trouble than they can handle . |
| 29 | They are not looking for a tough fight but for a victim — someone who will cower or quake with fear like a doomed rabbit . |
| 30 | But the athletes are making an unprecedented demand for a slice of the lucrative financial action and Tom Jennings , the agent spearheading their case , countered : ‘ We are not looking for a militant takeover , just a share of the wealth . |