Example sentences of "be not [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |
| 5 | When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives . |
| 6 | Users who are not connected to the Joint Academic Network or Internet systems can seek assistance to identify datasets of interest to them from the user services staff at the Data Archive . |
| 7 | The democratic forms of the Council and committees and the rigid hierarchical structure of the service have some great strengths but in many ways are not geared to the modern task of managing thousands of people and hundreds of millions of pounds of assets . |
| 8 | Errors on concentration determinations are not propagated to the age-corrected initial isotope ratios ( i ) , and therefore represent minimum error estimates . |
| 9 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 10 | ( The storage directories , where your configurable items are stored , may be anywhere on the host VAX ; they are not restricted to the same disk as the Process Directory ) . |
| 11 | Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ? |
| 12 | The problems are not restricted to the big cities and industrial towns . |
| 13 | You will see from this that they are not restricted to the scientific factors since the educational value can be as important , if not more , for establishing a site network . |
| 14 | THE National Examination Board is concerned that some Tutors are not conforming to the national pattern in this manner . |
| 15 | There are some circumstances in which costs are not awarded to the successful party . |
| 16 | But doubts about the necessity of preserving the land-based leg of the ’ triad ’ are not confined to the liberal left . |
| 17 | But doubts about the necessity of preserving the land-based leg of the ’ trial ’ are not confined to the liberal left . |
| 18 | Using H-thymidine autoradiography , Deschner , Lipkin , et al have shown that in high-risk subjects , proliferating cells are not confined to the lower two thirds of the colonic crypts , as they are in normal subjects , but are scattered throughout the entire length of the gland . |
| 19 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 20 | Interesting buildings are not confined to the ancient , ornate or foreign ; we are shown that there are plenty of ideas on our own doorstep ! |
| 21 | But the parties are not confined to the first perspective . |
| 22 | However , dramatic recoveries are not confined to the reptilian world . |
| 23 | They are impartially applied in order to ensure that the goals of welfare are not subverted to the partial concerns of those implementing policy . |
| 24 | However , these ‘ social factors ’ are not subjected to the same systematic analysis as the technical ones , and they remain unconnected , irksome and somehow immovable under prevailing analytical frameworks . |
| 25 | It is a disgrace that Government Departments are not subjected to the same scrutiny and punishments . |
| 26 | By which time you 're not listening to the other things they 're saying . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank God we 're not tied to the ailing economies of the West . |
| 28 | It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug . |
| 29 | that one you have got only somebody one side of you , you 're not attached to the other person . |
| 30 | and of course , you know like yours yourself Bob and probably both of us , it 's , we 're not used to the actual C C Q as such |