Example sentences of "be not [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | at present good recruits often have to be chased to Bramshill [ on the lengthy command courses ] , because chief constables are not anxious to spare able men , and officers themselves are reluctant to be separated from their families and homes , as well as having a fear that they might lose from being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ for promotion . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not supposed to learn long words like that until you are at least eight or nine . |
| 3 | Ministers are not prepared to allow local authorities to lay down conditions of employment , sick pay , holiday pay and other pay levels . |
| 4 | The Labour party in this county , values the role of small rural schools , but we are not prepared to see urban schools suffer to make sure that urb , rural schools are kept open for the sake of being kept open . |
| 5 | It is also desirable to establish that the owners of the business to be sold are not likely to have irreconcilable differences among themselves over what the selling price should be . |
| 6 | If young men are not able to find regular jobs does this mean that they will lose the sense of masculine superiority described by Willis and others ? |
| 7 | Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place . |
| 8 | Writing in 1946 , Knights , an editor of Scrutiny in the 19305 , is anxious that English should not avoid " controversial questions " in the name of " disinterested knowledge " , The discipline should attempt to provide an education which produces men and women who are not afraid to ask awkward questions , particularly when it comes to matters relating to the " quality of living " , rather than being content to simply fit people into " the machinery of society as it exists at present . |
| 9 | Although mainly reactive bodies at the outset , they were not slow to initiate new patterns of industrial relations in countries like Britain and Sweden . |
| 10 | Many of the students I spoke With in China wanted political freedom , but were not prepared to become compulsory exiles . |
| 11 | The researchers were not able to make early judgements about the ‘ success ’ or ‘ failure ’ of this attempt and noted that the most striking find was diversity of impact . |
| 12 | In all my professional experience of giving support to troubled marriages , I have never met any couple who were not able to make considerable strides forward if both were genuinely willing to give attention , to the issues underlying their discomfort and conflict and make the changes necessary for health and growth . |
| 13 | To reach structures deep within the brain it is not possible to use external landmarks , like folds in the cortex , directly . |
| 14 | The relation of the one continuum to the other is not possible using Newtonian mechanics . |
| 15 | It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top . |
| 16 | However , the Gould-Jacobs reaction is unsuitable for producing 1-cyclopropyl-quinolonecarboxylic acids or 1-cyclopropyl-azaquinolonecarboxylic acids of the ciprofloxacin type because it is not possible to alkylate 1-unsubstituted quinolones or azaquinolonecarboxylates with cyclopropyl halides . |
| 17 | Since no objective accident data were available for the areas shown in the films used in this study , it is not possible to define certain films as exemplars of risky junctions a priori . |
| 18 | In the United Kingdom it is not possible to get comparative estimates for individuals , but in England and Wales in 1984 , 23% of non-psychiatric beds were occupied by people who died before discharge ( G Bevan , unpublished observations ) . |
| 19 | According to Jesus , it is not possible to consider real foundations in marriage and in life without also considering the spiritual dimension to our lives . |
| 20 | With cross-sectional data it is not possible to make precise comparisons between changes in employment and economic activity over time . |
| 21 | Since it is not possible to handle statistical issues in any detail in a general account of sociolinguistic methodology , I shall concentrate in this section on picking out general principles of particular relevance to sociolinguists , referring as appropriate to more specialist treatments . |
| 22 | Everyone appreciates that employers are working in a volatile and sometimes precarious economic environment , and so clearly there will be times when it is not possible to meet pre-set targets on an individual company basis . |
| 23 | However , since the calculation of P(A) requires the aggregation of data across subjects and each subject only rates 30 of the 60 stimuli it is not possible to calculate average correlations in this case . |
| 24 | Councillor bodies are often paralleled at officer level and it is not uncommon to see different outlooks prevail — a further dimension of complexity . |
| 25 | In the Western and Northern Isles and on the north-west mainland of Scotland , it is not uncommon to find montane plants growing at or near sea level , though this phenomenon is probably better demonstrated in NW Sutherland and Shetland than in the Western Isles . |
| 26 | Registers tend to be filled in , often to a pattern , sometimes in advance , whereas actual attendance , particularly in rural areas may be far more sporadic than indicated , while in certain communities ( as with nomads such as the Kenya Turkana or Moslem communities suspicious of the corrupting influence of western schools on their children ) it is not uncommon to find considerable numbers of pupils who are on the roll , but attend sporadically and unwillingly . |
| 27 | The country 's largest carrier is not keen to face new battles at home when it is trying to spread its wings overseas , by buying TWA 's slots at Heathrow . |
| 28 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 29 | It probably is not practical to remove nuclear weapons entirely , but we can lessen the danger by reducing the number of weapons . |
| 30 | Using this approach it is not necessary to resolve alternative interpretations immediately — they may instead be maintained until their combination with other constraints produces in a single interpretation . |