Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 2 | As most bilingual students studying subjects are not beginners in English this experience more truly reflects their situation than does a lesson in a totally new language . |
| 3 | There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) . |
| 4 | Chapels are not improvements to coal houses . |
| 5 | It is also supposed that comparison between welfare gained or lost for different people is , though still difficult , less intractably so , if what is in question are not qualities of feeling but the satisfactions of behaviourally manifested preferences . |
| 6 | Amis observes that many of the newly discovered poets in the anthology are not masters of form , but must be read for their ‘ realism ’ , that is , for content : |
| 7 | Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements , but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief . |
| 8 | These are not wars of religion but conflicts between communities which have different religions ; no side tries to convert the other . |
| 9 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 10 | As for the mentioned activity , an attempt must be made to understand it in a way consonant with what has been said of contents and objects , that they are not states of affairs or ordinary things , and also with a further fact , that there are various modes of consciousness . |
| 11 | As I have said they are not cases of estoppel in the strict sense . |
| 12 | In general , although offer letters are not legally binding , the buyer 's solicitors will insist that at least those clauses discussed below are not subject to contract , but are legally binding obligations on the parties . |
| 13 | When sold later in life , they are not subject to tax again but a dealer is subject to paying 15/115ths of his profit . |
| 14 | This chapter is intended for those who are not teachers of reading but who , as parents , teachers , and librarians , wish to support both the specialist teachers and the learner-readers . |
| 15 | Holdings of unit trusts plainly are not holdings of money , neither are the periodic bonuses accumulated on a with-profits life assurance policy . |
| 16 | But in the seventeenth century some philosophers , such as Descartes and Malebranche , had extended this to saying that tastes and colours are , like pains , simply subjective modifications , and are not properties of material objects after all . |
| 17 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 18 | Nozick might claim that his conditional theory also proves the same point , that we do n't know we are not brains in vats . |
| 19 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 20 | These are not moments of thirst … but nor are they causes of drunkenness ( unless one tries to pack all such experiences into one day ) . |
| 21 | It has been said , for example , that Victorian interiors are not reflections of taste , they are memorials to personality . |
| 22 | Chairman I have n't got a question my name is Harold er I come from Bishop 's Stortford , er I work in Harlow and I do n't think that you should necessarily forget that some of the people are not residents in Harlow do in fact work in Harlow . |
| 23 | They presuppose that the particularities of different classrooms are not determinants of teaching and learning but are incidental . |
| 24 | Questions about trumping and revoking are not questions about experiences — or , if they are , they are psychological questions , not questions about the concepts of trumping and revoking . |
| 25 | These people were to be their ‘ lay ’ representatives , as , of course , the Panel Hearings are not Courts of Law , and lawyers as such have no role there . |
| 26 | Such charges are totally outside the scope of VAT altogether because they are not charges for goods or services . |
| 27 | He argues further that what we see , ‘ the immediate objects of sight ’ , are not things in space at a distance from us , but ideas in the mind . |
| 28 | They are not lumps of clay awaiting the potter 's wheel of their parents ' influence to fashion their personalities , but equal partners in taking initiatives and creating contretemps . |
| 29 | Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics . |
| 30 | These , however , are not part of Aarau 's medieval history , but were painted in the 1950s by Felix Hoffmann , a local artist . |