Example sentences of "be not [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Also , organic eyes are not subject to the same design constraints as are cameras : fish eyes have lenses made of material whose refractive index varies continuously from the centre to the outside .
2 There are all kinds of different questions we can ask about the life habits of these trilobites , which are not subject to the same kind of careful scrutiny .
3 Garden steps are not subject to the same regulations as those inside the house , so you have to decide for yourself the proportion of tread depth to rise which suits your site .
4 the privatised companies have greater access to investment funds are not subject to the same financing restrictions as the public sector water industry
5 There are good reasons for this : first , Corinth was an oligarchy , and in oligarchies , unlike democracies such as Athens after 462 , magistrates are not accountable to the same extent and there is less need to put up inscriptions .
6 Good management accounts separate the well-organised from the rest but are not vital in the same way .
7 It is greatly to the credit of the profession that , as viewers , we are not aware of the many techniques which have been used to produce a ‘ natural ’ effect .
8 The role of the officers — the vanguard of revolutionary education , exempt from the civilian controls which applied to electricity or water — seemed to have encouraged them in their belief that in their private capacities too officers were not subject to the same rules as civilians .
9 Resentful at being used as manual labourers , blacks then discovered that they were not entitled to the same pay increases as white troops because , as the War Office ruled , they were ‘ natives ’ .
10 While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way .
11 Nevertheless , one has one reservation about making housing associations the main vehicle for the provision of social housing : a housing association is not accountable in the same way as a local authority to the people for whom it is making the provision — that is , of course , in those areas where local authorities have a housing function .
12 It is not uncommon for the same Commission officials concerned with proposing draft legislation to be responsible for the enforcement of that legislation against member states when it is passed .
13 Since both need/dare and the infinitive evoke potentialities , no before/after relation is felt to pertain between them and so to is not necessary for the same reason as it is not used with the modal auxiliaries .
14 This inevitability is not present in the same way with ironing .
15 ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land .
16 But it 's not obvious to the many who have failed to invest in the latest equipment , who continue to squeeze a poor profit from dilapidated plant , decaying property and — worst of all — disenchanted people .
17 An election under para 21(2) was not applicable in the latter case , since the work-in-progress within the meaning of that provision was not identical before and after the partnership dissolution .
18 On April 29 , 1990 , after two days and two nights of filibustering by Communists , Rocard forced through a guillotine measure , transforming the Renault motor company from a régie ( which worked for the " exclusive interest of the nation " , was not subject to the same financial controls as ordinary companies , did not until 1970 have any share capital , was able to implement more progressive wage and labour policies , and remained ultimately under Ministry of Industry control ) into an ordinary public limited company .
19 And it was a perfectly well-deserved honour which was not open to the same criticism as many of the other honours that Wilson made or unhappily was persuaded to make .
20 Marx 's and Engels 's search for theories of the evolution of society was not difficult in the latter half of the nineteenth century .
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