Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents .
2 My little excesses are not for public Access
3 The end doors , with sliding glass-panel window for ventilation , are not for passenger use .
4 If you are not on income support at the moment and you wish to make a claim for benefit , please apply to the Council now .
5 And for people who are not on income support , in other words they have means higher than that , but who do receive attendance allowance , their charge will go up from eight ninety at the moment to fifteen pounds .
6 However loans can be available to meet the costs of fuel which are not on mains supply , such as coal , oil , paraffin , or bottled ( LPG ) gas .
7 We the women of South Africa are not against family planning .
8 Miss Taylor said : ‘ Mr Patten wants to pile children high and teach them cheap but they are not like soap powder . ’
9 If you 're not on income support or housing benefit
10 You have to have another one if you 're in cou , if you 're not in council accommodation from the l which we issue as well .
11 No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ?
12 Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints .
13 Their rates of pay were normally 3/ to 3/6 a day when they were not on piece work .
14 In defence of Dixon 's there are DTP packages that will run on an Amstrad 5086 — Timeworks 3 for GEM for example so they were not in fact wrong .
15 But despite this controversy , methods of birth control were not in fact alien to the working class and in the use of contraception we can again see distinctive patterns .
16 Everyone was making sure that they were not in flesh contact with any of the furniture , walls or floor .
17 Ah most squads were on piece work but you might find that you had If it was n't an apprentice squad , you might find that you had a squad of riveters who were n't on piece work , who simply went round doing any wee odds and ends that had
18 So you invariably find that they were n't on piece work .
19 Regionalism is not about service delivery .
20 The decision in the Hoffmann-La Roche case is not about law enforcement actions in general .
21 The argument in the 1990s is not about resource depletion but about changes in climate which will concern life and health as well as , ultimately , wealth .
22 ‘ And that bastard , ’ he added , nodding towards Luke , ‘ is not worth doin' time for . ’
23 The proposal is not for freight traffic to go through King 's Cross .
24 Module is not a package/Module is not of type Package
25 Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality .
26 A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work .
27 But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter .
28 Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports .
29 It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether .
30 This is not to limit faith , but to recognise that it is increasingly difficult to maintain a high figure based on small numbers .
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