Example sentences of "are not [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not at the cutting edge of Harvard Business Review ( HBR ) type networking but they are I suspect typical of many organizations . |
| 2 | Opt for central purchasing of forms that are not on the word processor . |
| 3 | Dawyck Gardens could be an expensive taxi journey from Peebles as they are not on the back road to Innerleithen ; the Southern Upland Way is 212 miles long , not 202 ; Dunslair Heights can best be reached from Lee Pen by sticking to the ridge and taking a firebreak from the south ; and the suggested route from Byrness to Chew Green along Harden Edge saves no distance over the normal route outside the fence , while taking the walker one kilometre inside the MOD warning signs . |
| 4 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 5 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 6 | Most top managers are above average in intelligence ( numeric and verbal reasoning ) but are not in the genius class . |
| 7 | There are still many children of school age who are not in the education system at any level , due to lack of enrolment opportunities , lack of schools , rising educational costs for poor families , high drop-out rates and inadequate government expenditure . |
| 8 | Moreover , the thin string-playing and low-level recording are not in the Concertgebouw/Decca class . |
| 9 | While they are happy to predate on anything small enough to swallow — playing havoc with Molly fry for instance — they are not like the Bumble Bee Gobies , ( and the less-well-known Slim Mudskippers Parapocryptes serperaster which we also keep ) which will accept only frozen or live foods . |