Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
| 2 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 4 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 5 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 6 | I am not persuaded by the hon. Gentleman 's arguments that to have proportional representation would necessarily persuade Glaswegians to vote Conservative . |
| 7 | Fences are not rushed in the stormy outbursts of No. 2 — though I still think he hurries Chopin 's dramatic interruption ( that fortissimo discord and pause ) in the last few bars . |
| 8 | It will be essential to drill shallow boreholes between the exploratory wells to ensure that any steeply dipping fractures are not missed by the tomographic software . |
| 9 | Honesty exists when a document is enforceable on the basis of its ostensible ( as opposed to ‘ small print ’ ) terms , or when express warranties are not disclaimed in the small print . |
| 10 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 11 | It should be noted that in this offence we are not dealing with the hypothetical by-stander . |
| 12 | In Section 7–2 we start with distortions in the factor market , where returns are not equalized in the two sectors of the economy ( for example , because of a union ‘ premium ’ in the corporate sector ) and then go on to a monopoly mark-up pricing policy . |
| 13 | The first situation considered is that where there are distortions in the factor market , so that the returns are not equalized in the two sectors . |
| 14 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |
| 15 | He argues that apart from receiving a higher grant , health authorities are not scrutinised to the same degree as SSds and believes they mismanage the money . |
| 16 | The sharp end of routine policing always falls on the economically marginal , those who live out their lives in public places which routine police patrols regulate , and those who are not integrated into the mainstream institutions of economic and political life . |
| 17 | The lessons of the Public Health era often seem forgotten in the West and are not integrated into the medico-technical intervention model which has been ‘ exported ’ to other countries . |
| 18 | Upstream promoter regions are not recognized by the truncated RNA polymerases in contrast to the wild-type enzyme |
| 19 | The history of the mammals in the Tertiary involved not only this one major diversification , but several , with major extinctions between , so that the largest mammals of the earlier parts of the Tertiary are not related to the large mammals of the Recent . |
| 20 | Colleagues , reject the ideas of workfare , make sure the ideas are not adopted by the Labour Party |
| 21 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 22 | While the Royal Commission has never been accused of acting as an arm of government , its inquiries are not conducted with the same open-eyed approach to political manipulation as are those of the Select Committees of the House of Lords or House of Commons . |
| 23 | Computer people seem to have great status in the eyes of top management and are not governed by the same codes as the rest of the company . |
| 24 | The Kent Impact Study predicted losses of between 4,500 and 6,500 from a total workforce of 12,500 , heavily concentrated in a few ports , and these figures are not disputed by the recent Kent Impact Monitoring Report . |
| 25 | Does that exempt schools that are not maintained by the local authority ? |
| 26 | The offeror will be particularly keen to do this in order to make the offer attractive to large shareholders ( shareholders holding 5 per cent or less are not affected by the anti-avoidance legislation ) . |
| 27 | Modules in this category are not formatted into the next volume opened but disregarded until the next time hard copy format is run . |
| 28 | Parents are not viewed as the primary educators of their own children , either in the world or in the church . |
| 29 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 30 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |