Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 2 | Land prices are already rising at the moment er in this region , even though house prices are not rising at a commensurate level . |
| 3 | those which are not directed at a specific military objective ; |
| 4 | No , we 're not looking at a new wonder drug , you know , the type that you swallow with a glass of water . |
| 5 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 6 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 7 | Provided that the population is not trapped at a local optimum , and provided there is at least some genetic variation in the appropriate direction , the optimal life history will eventually be reached . |
| 8 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |