Example sentences of "[am/are] not [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not automatically recognised in the market-place as innovative and technically oriented , and this belies our actual achievements , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The cognitive obstacles faced in the investigation of crime are not openly discussed in our system of criminal justice , let alone solved . |
| 3 | It is in this context that minorities who may feel that their causes are not adequately represented in Parliament wish to use their freedom of protest to draw attention to their plight . |
| 4 | On the other hand , they provide no support for the pipework which can cause the cistern to split or make the plumbing noisy if the pipes are not adequately supported in some other way . |
| 5 | Because of their belief that women 's concerns and activities are not adequately covered in the mainstream media , women 's groups have produced their own alternative magazines , radio , TV and A/V programmes , and have even started their own press services . |
| 6 | Departments , moreover , are not easily moved in new directions by the outsiders that presidents set over them . |
| 7 | This is important in practice because there are elements of traditional financial reports of governments that are not easily rationalized in terms of explicit users and their needs . |
| 8 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 9 | However , because they are ‘ heads of households ’ , lone mothers do show up more readily in the statistics ( that is , when they are not partially hidden in the category of ‘ lone parent ’ ) . |
| 10 | It is as if such mimicry rips the word away from its object , disunifies the two , shows that a given straightforward generic word — epic or tragic — is one-sided , bounded , incapable of exhausting the object ; the process of parodying forces us to experience those sides of the object that are not otherwise included in a given genre or a given style . |
| 11 | The result is very different from Rattle : the authentic instruments are gone ; and the London Sinfonietta are not particularly experienced in playing Mozart . |
| 12 | Some similarities can be misleading , because animals can superficially resemble one another that are not closely related in an evolutionary sense . |
| 13 | Most resident skin flora ( p. 74 ) are not highly virulent and are not normally implicated in infections except when prosthetic surgery or other invasive procedures are performed , or when neonates or immunocompromised patients are involved . |
| 14 | Children whose families have come from other countries may have a whole range of skills that are not normally recognised in English schools . |
| 15 | The rich are not normally inhibited in the defence of their own interests by the knowledge that they are only a small minority of the population . |
| 16 | the likelihood of the damage or of its being severe was due to characteristics of the animal which are not normally found in animals of the same species or are not normally so found except at particular times or in particular circumstances ; and |
| 17 | The experiments discussed in the previous section make it clear that most of the experiences which can be recalled if people are woken up through the night are not normally remembered in the morning . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not exactly dealing in bodies , ’ said Owen . |
| 19 | It 's a place where the opinions of parents are taken seriously and they are not simply placed in a passive role operating only on the school 's terms . |
| 20 | Yet second-person pronouns are not generally accepted in academic writing , a characteristic of the idiom linked to the idea of criticism having less a given , particular reader than of an unspecified general readership . |
| 21 | Other examples of insurance claims being referred to experts do not appear in the reports and are not generally encountered in practice ; the insurance world has a pronounced preference for arbitration . |
| 22 | Cows are not officially recorded in the month of August and the results for July and September are averaged — very useful … |
| 23 | Like Anglo-Welsh , the big companies could argue that they are not heavily represented in the affected areas and therefore not creating a monopoly . |
| 24 | In the US , the National Resources Defense Council has also petitioned for a faster phase-out of ozone depleters , calling for the CFC deadline to be moved from 2000 to 1995 , a 1993 ban on production of methyl chloroform and methyl bromide , and a 2005 ban of HCFCs which are not yet included in the protocol . |
| 25 | In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate . |
| 26 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 27 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 28 | They know about the misery of people who are unemployed , but are not even counted in the unemployment figures because of the way in which the Government have fiddled those figures . |
| 29 | In view of the Lonrho decision a similar question might arise with regard to common law crimes which are not also torts in their own right . |
| 30 | Bar codes scanned at the check-out counters of Kmart 's new store at Auburn Hills , near Detroit , for example , are not just recorded in the store 's point-of-sales computer to keep the finances straight . |