Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 3 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 4 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 5 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The goods are not related to the cash , camera , jewellery or other items stolen from the two women when they were killed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If this population is representative of the situation nationally , substantial numbers of patients with end stage liver disease might benefit from liver transplantation , but are not referred to a centre . |
| 12 | Furthermore , women are not tied to the kitchen sink in the way often caricatured by feminist writers . |
| 13 | 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. : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 16 | The riders are not strapped to the car in any way and it 's clear that falling off would have serious consequences . |
| 17 | A further point in university libraries is that storage costs , though real enough , are not charged to the librarian 's budget . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The effects of too much alcohol are not limited to the person who drinks . |
| 20 | The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket , says Raoul Pinnell , Prudential 's marketing director . |
| 21 | Research and study problems are not limited to the area of crime and criminals . |
| 22 | It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes . |
| 23 | You are NOT CONNECTED to a LIFESPAN communication line |
| 24 | In the most traditional houses these are not connected to the electricity supply , and on special occasions can be fitted with candles . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the evening and on Saturday mornings , when most publications are not delivered to the Reading Room but have to be collected from the Issue Hall , all publications were examined by the Library 's Research Officer at the Issue Counter . |
| 28 | Young children are not admitted to the Unit , but there is close liaison with the Paediatric Department . |
| 29 | They are not known to the rest of the program and they can only be changed from within the procedure or function where they are defined . |
| 30 | Any persons whose names are not known to the applicant should be referred to in the application and in the title to the proceedings as " other occupiers " . |