Example sentences of "[am/are] not [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the two columns of section 2 are not opposites in the way that the two columns of section 1 appear to be . |
| 2 | But these are not instances of the academic community acting concertedly as a single corporate body , being self-critical about its own internal affairs and activities . |
| 3 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 4 | Profits à prendre are rights to take things of value ( other than water ) from land , such as the right of common pasture , or rights of fishery ( commoners , it should be noticed , are not owners of the common ) . |
| 5 | Instead of trying to change old attitudes we can set out to design new ones which are not descendants of the old ones . |
| 6 | Deaths in detention are not phenomena of the distant past : last year two people were reported as having died in custody . |
| 7 | Having said this , it does not follow that there are not difficulties at a more " elementary " level of language . |
| 8 | Each Discussion Paper is prefaced by a non-technical summary which communicates its essential findings to those who are not specialists in the field . |
| 9 | Books on human evolution are often written by those who are not specialists in the subject and the results can be catastrophic or embarrassing . |
| 10 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 11 | Section 1(2) of the Act states that the following are not inventions for the purposes of the Act : ( a ) a discovery , scientific theory or mathematical method ; ( b ) a literary , dramatic , musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever ; ( c ) a scheme , rule or method for performing any mental act , playing a game or doing business , or a program for a computer ; ( d ) the presentation of information ; but the foregoing provision shall prevent anything from being treated as an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or application for a patent relates to that thing as such ( emphasis added ) |
| 12 | The common abuses of public power are not abuses by the sovereign parliament itself . |
| 13 | Without that proof , we would hold it against the conditional theory that it can not even show that we know that we are not brains in a vat . |
| 14 | And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either . |
| 15 | Stroud ( 1984 , ch. 2 ) considers a similar argument against the sceptic 's attempt to generalize from the fact that we do not know we are not brains in a vat . |
| 16 | But these are not canoeists in the true sense . |
| 17 | McCloskey is right , up to a point , in claiming that in cases such as these we have changed the concept : ‘ What we are ascribing and according are not rights in the ordinary sense of rights ’ ( 1975 : 416 ) . |
| 18 | The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term . |
| 19 | Ships like this are not things of a dim past , there were first-class passenger sailing ships on the Australian run within living memory * and there are Admirals alive who first went to sea in wooden sailing ships . |
| 20 | On the sale , the purchaser should not assume any such liabilities as they are not liabilities to the employees . |
| 21 | In the case of members of committees who are not entitled to attendance allowance because they are not councillors of the authority , there is , instead of the attendance allowance , a financial loss allowance in respect of any loss of earnings necessarily suffered , or additional expense incurred ( other than travelling or subsistence allowance ) in performing an approved duty . |
| 22 | Other nations , which are not signatories to the treaty , are understood to be developing nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | In addition , member states are allowed to exempt from the notification requirement what are termed ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ if they do not use the securities acquired to interfere in the company 's management ; the expression ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ may be confined to market makers ( as under the 1985 Companies Act ) but the expression does seem wide enough to include own account dealers as well and this is supported by the fact that the exemption applies even to professional dealers who are not members of a stock exchange , provided that they are authorised or supervised by a competent authority ( an investment bank , for example ) . |
| 24 | Superficial references to team work gloss over the fact that most of those who are required to act cooperatively are not members of a team in the usual sense . |
| 25 | The absence of such a right reflects a similar absence from the provisions in the Act of 1986 which are applicable to authorised persons who are not members of a recognised self-regulating organisation : see section 70 . |
| 26 | From now on I will use the term " marriage " simply to denote the institution immediately under discussion without prejudging the issue as to whether the different kinds of " marriage " thus presented are or are not members of a single logical class . |
| 27 | It would also appear that many of the people who abuse the code of these shelters are not members of the MBA , so contribute nothing to their maintenance . |
| 28 | Norway and Turkey — from America 's viewpoint , NATO members vital to containing the Soviet Union — are not members of the WEU . |
| 29 | ‘ Most major Old Master dealers are not members of the Art Dealers ’ Association of America ’ . |
| 30 | They include some nations — especially in northern Europe — which are sophisticated in terms of technology and policy , and are among Europe 's wealthiest nations but which are not members of the European Community . |