Example sentences of "are not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And horrified Superintendent Peter Edwards of British Transport Police , said : ‘ We are very fortunate we are not dealing with a major disaster . |
| 2 | If you are not leaving with a sour taste in your mouth , it may be viable for you to enter into an agreement with the company that you will continue to provide it with the benefit of your expertise , pursuant to a consultancy agreement . |
| 3 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 4 | Although there are many laws on the statute book ( often dating from colonial administration ) , they have either become dead letters or are not integrated into a coherent national conservation programme ( FAO Soils Bulletin No. 30 , 1976b , lists various legislation for different countries ) . |
| 5 | These themes are not integrated into a tight ideological system , which can compute attitudinal positions with the precision of a mathematical formula . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Note that if national currencies are not replaced by a single union currency and the as if assumption is met , then intra-union exchange rates will be fixed even if they are not de jure fixed . |
| 8 | Statistics for the number of recipients of all benefits are not collected on a regional basis . |
| 9 | By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals . |
| 10 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 11 | A package which is to be submitted for approval/has already been submitted for approval includes modules which are not listed on a corresponding Design Change ( DC ) . |
| 12 | With reference to old people of over 75 , who are here our main concern , there is a further aspect of ageist stereotyping which is prevalent and regrettable ; that is , the tendency to make negative assumptions about the capacities of individual old people which are not based on a proper appraisal of their state . |
| 13 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 14 | Perhaps , though regrettably , they are not seen as a central core of independence which may reside elsewhere-'in my head or in my dreams ' . |
| 15 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |
| 16 | People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited . |
| 17 | Land prices are already rising at the moment er in this region , even though house prices are not rising at a commensurate level . |
| 18 | Any limitation on the suspension of rent should be resisted unless there is included in the lease a clause allowing surrender where the premises are not reinstated within a given period of time . |
| 19 | On the other hand , such schemes inevitably create anomalies : chosen beneficiaries are often no more ‘ worthy ’ of compensation than other victims of government action who are not covered by a similar scheme . |
| 20 | These applications are not regarded as a mere formality by most courts which may require the originating application to state the grounds in proper detail , for example that the lessor may require to occupy at the expiration of the lease ; that the premises are temporarily surplus to the needs of the lessor ; that the lessee has indicated that he only requires the premises for a limited period ; that there is to be development at the expiration of the term ; that the lessor is only prepared to grant if the section is excluded ; that exclusion of the section has been taken into consideration in negotiations for the rent , or possibly that the premises form part of other premises which brings the provisions of management of the whole into question if the section is not excluded . |
| 21 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 22 | These are not strictly part of our ‘ urban ’ concerns , but they do show how Harré 's and Goffman 's ideas , as well as Giddens 's concept of ‘ locale ’ are not limited to a particular scale . |
| 23 | The jaws are armed with blunt papillae which are not arranged in a regular series . |
| 24 | Questions 1 to 4 cover considerations necessary for any type of intervention but they are not arranged in a logical , systematic order . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the slips are not arranged in a chronological order and documents relating to the early modern period are scattered throughout the calendar . |
| 26 | Like gangs , bullies are not looking for a stand-up fight , but for a victim ; the best way to beat them is to give more trouble than they can handle . |
| 27 | They are not looking for a tough fight but for a victim — someone who will cower or quake with fear like a doomed rabbit . |
| 28 | But the athletes are making an unprecedented demand for a slice of the lucrative financial action and Tom Jennings , the agent spearheading their case , countered : ‘ We are not looking for a militant takeover , just a share of the wealth . |
| 29 | You are not looking for a fast drop in weight . |
| 30 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |