Example sentences of "[noun sg] [am/are] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the elements of thermodynamics , statistical mechanics and elasticity to the level of an honours degree in physics or chemistry but since continuum mechanics and viscoelasticity are not commonly found in such courses a detailed account of them is give in Chaps 2 and 3 , Chap . |
| 2 | However , requests for admission are not always supported by adequate information , which makes it difficult to assess whether admission is appropriate ( Bastiaansen , 1976 ; Schelvis , 1977 ; Knorth , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Private property and freedom are not uniquely connected in the way that Hayek suggests , therefore , and if private property is to be justified in terms of freedom some further argument is required that the dispersal theory does not supply . |
| 4 | Events at the local level are not simply subsumed into some larger , general process . |
| 5 | Third , the injustices against which prisoners struggle are not merely to do with the way in which we run our prisons . |
| 6 | Crew arriving by air to join a yacht are not normally asked for an onward ticket : however , nationals who need visas for Spain should have a letter from the owner of the yacht stating that the crew is joining the yacht at Las Palmas . |
| 7 | It clearly implies that racism and ethnocentrism are not necessarily confined to white groups . |
| 8 | If sources of income are not all taxed at equal rates , there is obviously an incentive to convert income into the untaxed form . |
| 9 | For maximum efficiency all of these drugs should be used as early as possible in the treatment of the disease since clinical signs associated with pulmonary pathology are not rapidly resolved by mere removal of adult lungworms . |
| 10 | Apart from the abatement received by the UK , other sources of revenue are not precisely geared to ability to pay . |
| 11 | If the effects of habituation are not powerfully offset by rewarding sexual experience , the partner may lose his or her attractiveness and become the equivalent of a sibling . |
| 12 | Yet their close knowledge of the local community , their personal experience of curriculum innovation with a far-reaching impact like TVEI or the National Curriculum , and , in many cases , their role in the training of company employees on release to college are not usually exploited by companies . |
| 13 | The cognitive obstacles faced in the investigation of crime are not openly discussed in our system of criminal justice , let alone solved . |
| 14 | The complex definitions of housework standards and routines described in the last chapter are not simply created as a response to the job situation ; they antedate the time of ‘ becoming a housewife ’ . |
| 15 | As far as Humphreys is concerned , firms which occupy the high ground in executive search are not necessarily limited in the variety , volume or type of search work that can be undertaken ; for example , Tyzack 's recent work includes finding the chairman of London Transport , looking simultaneously for three chief executives for an international trading company in the Far East , Europe and the US ( none of whom was to earn less than US$450 000 ) , searching for the chairman of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission , tracking down the chief executive of a building society and the MD of a conglomerate which , during the search , was defending itself against likely take-over bids . |
| 16 | The framework in which political scientists usually consider these aspects of politics , employing the notions of ‘ political culture ’ and ‘ political socialization ’ , is too narrow to encompass all the relevant phenomena , and it is more fruitful , I think , to start from the conception of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ ( Bourdieu and Passeron , 1977 ) , which has the great merit of emphasizing that the ideas and values shaping political action are not necessarily expressed in an overtly political form , and of relating such ideas and values to the whole social structure . |
| 17 | Many of the operations of mind , for example high-speed addition , skilled typing , or playing a musical instrument are not readily examined through introspection . |
| 18 | Newspaper reports of rape are not usually thought of as pornography , though sometimes they are in effect . |
| 19 | When the rotor is moving at a speed d/d the induced voltages in the phase windings are equal to the rate of change of flux linkages : So the complete phase A circuit model includes the induced voltage A , which opposes the applied phase voltage A. Details of the induced voltage are not usually supplied by the stepping motor manufacturer , but fortunately the voltage can be measured experimentally . |
| 20 | The consequences of this disparity are not completely offset by the greater efficiency of the NHS . |
| 21 | ( c ) For left arithmetic shift , when the sign bit is changed ; rounding errors in right arithmetic shift are not usually considered to be a case of overflow . |
| 22 | The effects of the tax are not however limited to the price system , and of particular interest is the effect on employment . |
| 23 | It must be remembered that in some countries many of the population are not formally educated in the three Rs , although they may be very educated in the ways of their culture . |
| 24 | The hope is that the professionals who are part of the group are not only listening to but also acting on the ideas that are put forward by members of the group . |
| 25 | They can have maturity dates of anything up to 189 days , and of course by their nature are not easily controlled by suppliers . |
| 26 | The business class and the establishment are not totally closed to outsiders . |
| 27 | Political upheaval and war are not necessarily associated with curriculum change ; and even when they are , change seems habitually to be followed by a reversion to the status quo ante , a tendency to equate change with relabelling , a reassertion of institutional inertia . |
| 28 | Semantic interactions which involve this sort of meaning are not usually channelled through the syntactic structure , hence there is no syntactic dimension to any lexical dissonance which may arise . |
| 29 | Calls to the single market hotline are not necessarily recorded on a geographical basis . |
| 30 | They remind us that these types of behaviour are not necessarily confined to those with dementia . |