Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local states are not accorded a leading role in decisions about welfare . |
| 2 | So let's sweep aside this idea of appointees because the Home Secretary of the day and his predecessor and the Home Office and the inspectorate feel that the police authorities are not doing a proper job , give them the tools to do a pres proper job . |
| 3 | It is evident that a relatively small proportion of schools had either chosen or felt able to implement the ISS recommended curriculum and that most schools were not following a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils . |
| 4 | British machinery companies are not making a big enough effort to promote their products in the recently opened markets of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , according to an export consultant . |
| 5 | Reserve requirements on banks will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage . |
| 6 | The apostles were not given a priestly role by Jesus and he left no instructions about how the Church was to be organized . |
| 7 | Poles had proved in 1830 – 1 that they posed a genuine threat to the unity of the empire , but Ukrainians were not to constitute a significant danger for decades . |
| 8 | They are actually all for and b =8/3 but various values of P. In each case the integration was started at a time sufficiently earlier than the start of the trace that the choice of initial conditions is not having a large direct effect . |
| 9 | Before Windows 3.1 , Windows was not considered a solid enough environment to allow that to happen , and all the information processing was limited to the server . |
| 10 | But when hospitals are struggling to stay within budgets such initiatives are not given a high priority . |