Example sentences of "are not [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Despite introducing some dynamic elements into the discussion , these are not treated in a formal way . |
| 4 | The jaws are armed with blunt papillae which are not arranged in a regular series . |
| 5 | Questions 1 to 4 cover considerations necessary for any type of intervention but they are not arranged in a logical , systematic order . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the slips are not arranged in a chronological order and documents relating to the early modern period are scattered throughout the calendar . |
| 7 | Presently all make a valuable contribution but generally events are not planned in a co-ordinated way taking into account the work of other agencies . |
| 8 | The implications for our understanding of the nature of government and law are not presented in a systematic fashion until On Human Conduct . |
| 9 | Many services like medical care are not bought in a normal commercial transaction by a user , but are bought via an intermediary or a third party , the insurance company . |
| 10 | Secondly , although larger specimens of O. rosea examined often have many smaller thinner supernumerary papillae such papillae are not distributed in a similar way to other species of Ophioprium . |
| 11 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 12 | Moules ( mussels ) are a more adventurous course — while they are high in cholesterol , they are very low in calories , as long as they are not bathed in a rich sauce . |
| 13 | The English tradition that it is tor Parliament to do the taxing is so deep-seated that the court would probably assert a legal presumption , as a matter of statute interpretation , that powers of taxation are not included in a statutory delegation of power unless clear words are used , and that a general formula like that in the statute stated in the question is not sufficient . ’ |