Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not great railway enthusiast , but derive immense pleasure out of building them and running them , ’ he added . |
| 2 | But I am not that man , Thomas thought , shivering in a heap on the flower bed where he had dropped onto all fours so as not to be seen . |
| 3 | I am not that man , he thought again , straightening up now , for in the next instant it seemed entirely necessary that he should not hide , should visibly walk to the front door and into his library . |
| 4 | I 'm glad that I am not that sort . |
| 5 | ‘ Am not I King of England ? |
| 6 | I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools . |
| 7 | Visual size is not tactile size , visual extension and motion are not tactile extension and motion . |
| 8 | they are not premier league players so they 're gon na tire as the evening goes on . |
| 9 | In these circumstances our concerns are not that community care changes are a step too far , but that they will not go far enough to produce radical change . |
| 10 | Mail-order plants that turn out not to be the ones ordered are tiresome enough , but when they are labelled as the plant ordered , and are not that plant , it is particularly irritating . |
| 11 | But they are not better pattern selective elements , so I think one can conclude that the orientational selectivity of cortical neurons is not what makes it the organ of civilisation . |
| 12 | Many of these survivors are not traditional tree orchards at all , but bush varieties on which mistletoe is incapable of gaining a foothold . |
| 13 | The other basic operations in the relational algebra are not traditional set operators . |
| 14 | These , he says , ‘ are not real client/server platforms : they 're not powerful enough . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the extent to which the return on capital employed calculation can measure operating capability , given that the accounts are not current cost accounts , is debatable . |
| 16 | However , Romanians remain prisoners of their own history : they continue to fear that Hungary 's real intentions are not ethnic minority protection but a revision of frontiers . |
| 17 | ‘ Then you are not living life to the full . ’ |
| 18 | One reason the idea might seem odd in the case of stones is that stones are not living material . |
| 19 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 20 | We are not insulting God but bringing glory to him by taking his Word as the stable , authoritative truth it is . |
| 21 | They er operators have a tendency to overcrowd the profitable ones and those that are not profitable loose out altogether . |
| 22 | Material consents relate to those contracts , normally the vendor 's customer contracts , which the purchaser would like to receive formal consent for and if such contracts are not transferred failure to take over such contracts may materially reduce the value of the business acquired . |
| 23 | At the time of the funeral a set form of words is used and I think it is helpful to look at what sense these words can convey to this majority population who are not regular church attenders . |
| 24 | Even though it is generally recognised that , at best , the principles of operant conditioning described in Verbal Behaviour contribute but a small part to our understanding of the processes of language development , this does not immediately rule out the possibility of employing techniques based upon operant conditioning to help those children who are not developing language in the normal way . |
| 25 | While monkeys are not normal elephant food , it is conceivable that such an event could occur ( or at least , it is hard , at the current state of the art , to envisage a reasoner that could reject this possibility without rejecting other , similar ones incorrectly ) . |
| 26 | His years are not modern calendar years , but governed by the rebirth of vegetation — new year comes in ‘ depraved May ’ . |
| 27 | However , as explained at page 32 below , dealings on exchanges which are not recognised investment exchanges ( RIEs ) or designated investment exchanges ( DIEs ) may in fact be treated as " off-exchange " for the purposes of the COB Rules ; moreover , qualifying futures contracts may still be within the money market exemption ( see page 24 below ) provided that they are not bought or sold , or expressed to be as bought or sold , on an RIE . |
| 28 | Messiah , however , are not simple rave gibbons . |
| 29 | Its major plastics — ‘ Propathene ’ polypropylene and ‘ Melinar ’ polyethylene terephthalate — are not simple commodity products , although they are made and sold in large volumes . |
| 30 | However , if the specific practices of lawyers are examined it is readily apparent that most clients are not working class . |