Example sentences of "[pron] are not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of people who work for me are not too clever — and one feels that you have to repeat instructions , and they — even so they 're not undertaken . |
| 2 | But the adverts that really annoy me are not so much the ones aimed at women but the ones aimed at men . |
| 3 | Awareness of the variety of special children , some of whom are not visually identifiable , and of their needs . |
| 4 | ‘ The president , who is a great man , and some of the Government , some of whom are not so great , want a figurehead , a new symbol for our people . |
| 5 | As far as the true chemical tonics are concerned , there are several kinds of active substances available , although most of them are not well known . |
| 6 | April In footballing terms , two of them are not even on solids . |
| 7 | We are concerned with people , some of whom are men and some women , and the cognitive differences between them are not easily traced to their gender . |
| 8 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 9 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 10 | I mean , the thing is the they 're not you know , some of them are not that nice but er |
| 11 | It is ironic that the media tend to promote individuals in this last group — the autonomous but less creative — as the superstars of the business world , yet many of them are not actually very productive in our economic system . |
| 12 | If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . |
| 13 | One objection made against West German party , lists is that MdBs chosen from them are not directly answerable to the electorate . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , many of them are not very effective . |
| 15 | But before I start with the heavy stuff , I 'd like to tell you my own theory about grown-ups and their DOs and DON'Ts and why a lot of them are not very good at dealing with children . |
| 16 | Yet the base levels derived from them are not very different from the base levels derived from the study of marine and river terraces . |
| 17 | erm I , I erm , I am actually dead against this for various reasons , and I do n't think I would bring up all the reasons that I am , because some of them are not absolutely purely planning reasons , which should n't be aired at this meeting , but I do feel that the provision there for thirty six properties will create a traffic hazard , and access problems , which , which I feel will support this Council at the , the traffic authority after having done a sufficiently detailed survey , I think was the problem , was n't it ? |
| 18 | When we look closely at the plants and animals depicted on frescoes and vases , many of them are not really very lifelike . |
| 19 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 20 | Julian and I are not terribly good at snooker . |
| 21 | My father and I are not very close — I 'm not a son who could be sent to sea . " |
| 22 | As well as classic dimorphic restriction fragment length polymorphisms , which are not particularly informative , several classes of repeat sequences have now been characterised in DNA which are highly polymorphic as a consequence of wide variation in repeat copy number . |
| 23 | ( 13 ) For the purposes of any proceedings at the quarterly meeting in March in the final year of office of members of a licensing board which are not finally disposed of before the expiry in that year of the term of office of the members , the members of the licensing board in office at the date of the said meeting shall , notwithstanding such expiry , be deemed to constitute the licensing board . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , local authorities have power not only to prevent developments which would clash with amenity ( for example , the siting of a repair garage in a residential area ) but also to reject badly designed developments which are not intrinsically harmful . |
| 25 | Terms which are not expressly agreed between the parties but inserted by law into the contract are called implied terms . |
| 26 | M All provisions of this agreement which are not expressly or by necessary implication to merge and be extinguished in the transfer hereunder shall continue in full force and effect after completion . |
| 27 | As with any legal document , a record contract contains clauses and phrases which are not easily understood by the layman . |
| 28 | There are occasional arrivals of odd specimens of Fairy Basslets which are not easily identified , and some , as in the case of Pseudanthias pulcherimus from the western Indian Ocean have male and female forms different enough to cause them to be frequently treated as separate species . |
| 29 | Moreover this form of regulation is closely associated with the emergence of new institutional machinery such as quangos , and regulatory agencies , which are not easily assimilated into orthodox public law concepts . |
| 30 | Each provides attributes which are not easily available from the other . |