Example sentences of "and [am/are] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most resident skin flora ( p. 74 ) are not highly virulent and are not normally implicated in infections except when prosthetic surgery or other invasive procedures are performed , or when neonates or immunocompromised patients are involved . |
| 2 | These machines have lower stick forces than most training two-seaters and are not generally fitted with a nose hook for aerotowing . |
| 3 | Other examples of insurance claims being referred to experts do not appear in the reports and are not generally encountered in practice ; the insurance world has a pronounced preference for arbitration . |
| 4 | If they have been very , very bad and are not well connected inside the Church , the man with the wart gobs all over them , people chuck potato peelings at them and then they are turned out into Strathclyde Road in their underpants . |
| 5 | History knows a cynical law : that in all lands politicians dislike ecclesiastics who interfere and therefore , when influencing who is to be a new bishop , prefer not to have bishops too practical and too effective ; and a respectable way of having ineffective bishops , the only respectable way , is to have otherworldly bishops , who live to God and spend much time in prayer and are not well informed on matters of this world . |
| 6 | ‘ DEC is a fairly enlightened company generally but certainly women here tend to take more time and are not so stressed by interruptions . |
| 7 | The experiments are of the ‘ what if ’ variety , i.e. they ask ‘ what would happen if we did this ? ’ , and are not therefore based on hypothetico-deductive logic . |
| 8 | Since claims by non-State third parties will not normally be presented before an international forum and are not directly governed by the terms of the Vienna Convention , the outcome may well be significantly different from those involving third States . |
| 9 | The distinction between individuals in government and the senior civil service , banks and corporations is often more blurred than in western countries , and therefore this elite tends to form a coherent and powerful set of economic interests , ( although these may be contradictory and are usually very diverse ) and are not only represented in government but often are the government . |
| 10 | From our own observations ( unpublished ) and those of others , sulphated and conjugated bile acids represent less than 10% of the total bile acids excreted in faeces and are not further considered in this report . |
| 11 | Usually these second droppings are much more random and are not often confined to the widely-used lavatorial system . |
| 12 | Mandarinfish ( callionymidae ) have a poisonous mucus which deters predators and are not usually bothered by larger fish . |
| 13 | Rate resources are unevenly distributed among local authorities and are not necessarily related to their different needs . |
| 14 | Relations in the material world can exist independently of consciousness and are not necessarily affected by it . |
| 15 | An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire . |