Example sentences of "[am/are] not [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 2 | My business interests are declared , but , contrary to some popular media suppositions , I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
| 4 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 5 | Indeed there are no really weak moments vocally , although I am not convinced by the style of all the vocal cadenzas . |
| 6 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
| 7 | With me the choirs never use music , which has the double effect : their eyes are not fixed on the page in front of them and they can communicate directly with me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The front arches are not repeated on the back because a credence table is a side table and will always be against a wall . |
| 10 | Smith suggests that ‘ the concept of policy denotes … deliberate choice of action or inaction , rather than the effects of interrelating forces ’ : he emphasizes ‘ inaction ’ and reminds us that ‘ attention should not focus exclusively on decisions which produce change , but must also be sensitive to those which resist change and are difficult to observe because they are not represented in the policy-making process by legislative enactment ’ . |
| 11 | Moreover , in these models , if the firms have different and non-constant marginal costs , a further source of inefficiency is that total market output will be produced at more than minimum total cost — the marginal costs of firms are not equalized at the equilibrium . |
| 12 | It is particularly important to check that findings are not generalized beyond the group studied . |
| 13 | Yet this still means that over a thousand African languages are not heard on the radio . |
| 14 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
| 15 | Although Catholics are not cited in the Smolensk Archive with reference to the taking of church valuables , their activity can be traced from other sources . |
| 16 | Galileo was less successful in explaining why loose objects are not flung from the surface of a spinning earth . |
| 17 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 18 | Although the two systems are not integrated at the moment , they will be eventually . |
| 19 | The only forces stationed on former East German territory would be " German units of territorial defence which are not integrated into the alliance structures " to which united Germany would belong . |
| 20 | Article 5. ( 1 ) Until the completion of the withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces from the territory of the present GDR and of Berlin in accordance with Article 4 of the present treaty , only German territorial defence units which are not integrated into the alliance structures to which German armed forces in the rest of German territory are assigned will be stationed in that territory as armed forces of the united Germany . |
| 21 | In 1934 , the year of Murder in the Cathedral 's commissioning , he wrote , ‘ one of the reasons why the Morte Darthur is a permanent source of refreshment , is the degree to which the primitive ‘ ritual ’ stories are and are not integrated into the narrative . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The goods are not related to the cash , camera , jewellery or other items stolen from the two women when they were killed . |
| 25 | Unable to afford the Monet themselves , the Musées de France initiated negotiations for purchase , not by the State but by the insurance company G.A.N. Under the terms of 1990 regulations such firms may acquire works of art considered of importance to France 's national heritage and are not taxed on the purchase price . |
| 26 | But Cambridge , Wilson insists , are not imbued with the loser 's mentality . |
| 27 | They are not touched by the rebate system , because — generous and expensive though it is — it does not reach them . |
| 28 | Among others , these prevent double counting of non-trade exchange differences which could otherwise be included under deductions for cases III , IV or V Schedule D , of exchange differences on currency acquired under a forward contract and indefinite deferral of unrealised gains ; ensure carry-forward of losses are not prevented by a drafting technicality ; enable regulations to apply arm's-length test exclusions to debts that vary in amount ; and extend the rules on translating forward currency contracts to those not reflected in accounts prepared under normal accounting practice . |
| 29 | All I can say is , it is a good job players are not breathalysed before a match , because all of us were completely smashed ! |
| 30 | The ever increasing volume of legislation must inevitably result in ambiguities of statutory language which are not perceived at the time the legislation is enacted . |