Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not like the odious Du Camp , who would proudly claim many years of friendship with Gustave , but would always deny him genius . |
| 2 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 3 | I am not against the general tenor of that which is sought . |
| 4 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | And I am not in a bad temper . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I am not in the outside world , my lord , ’ smiled Joan . |
| 7 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 8 | I am not in the slightest bit interested in the periphery , ’ says Gregory . |
| 9 | However , lest you think that I am too good to be true , let me at once add that I am not in the slightest inclined to gamble . |
| 10 | The observed pattern , that in all directions the redshift of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from us , can be explained ( if we are not at a special place in the Universe ) only by a uniform universal expansion . |
| 11 | The external doses recorded for the fathers in our study are orders of magnitude lower than the external doses received by survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki , whose children are not at an increased risk of childhood leukaemia . |
| 12 | There continues to exist an element of uncertainty as all EC member countries are not at the same level of preparedness to proceed at an identical pace towards the final stage of European monetary unification . |
| 13 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 14 | Votes are not for a particular person but for a list put up by a party . |
| 15 | Let's say , straight away , that these are not for the faint hearted , or the poorly-maintained helicopter . |
| 16 | Exuberance will characterise them , according to Robert Stern , simply because ‘ unlike the corporations of more recent times , the owners are not on a theological mission ’ . |
| 17 | When you are not on the international panel it is hard to work your way in . |
| 18 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 19 | When a movement called Christians for Socialism started in 1972 , they chose to have their inaugural meeting in Santiago and received a message from the President assuring them that ‘ Divisions today are not on the religious level or on the level of philosophic ideas : the real division is between imperialism and dependent countries . ’ |
| 20 | The royal pair are not on the Civil List . |
| 21 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 22 | The piano sonatas of Sir Michael Tippett are not on the same level of inspiration and invention as his string quartets , symphonies or concertos . |
| 23 | A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end . |
| 24 | Cheap reels are not worth a second thought . |
| 25 | ‘ Your forearms are not under the same sort of strain . |
| 26 | But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else . |
| 27 | In the unlikely event that we fail to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking or they are not of a reasonable standard , then we accept responsibility whether caused by our employees , agents or suppliers , save that ( i ) we shall not accept responsibility or liability for death , bodily injury or illness caused to you or others named on your booking form , except as set out below and ( ii ) we limit our responsibility or liability in respect of carriage by air , sea or land to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage . |
| 28 | Research suggests that fringe and Green Belt sites are generally used by local populations for informal recreation , and that facilities are not of a sufficient standard to attract people from far afield . |
| 29 | If you , the reader , are not of a scientific bent , then they may not much appeal to you and you may wish to gloss over them . |
| 30 | companies , wh wh which are not of the western world , that we 've ever come across . |