Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am not I King of England ? |
| 2 | I have to tell you I am not any sort of an expert on the budgets of grant maintained schools . |
| 3 | No , we are not skilled people as such , but we also have our dignity and self respect . |
| 4 | Waiting lists also tend to be longer , and these are not complete indices of need since council allocation rules often exclude certain persons from them . |
| 5 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 6 | One consequence is that calibrated dates are not central dates with an error term , but a range or ranges of dates . |
| 7 | These are not accidental oversights on the part of the academic community . |
| 8 | Rules of liability are not like rules of the road . |
| 9 | The opposing view holds that social service consumers are not like consumers in a supermarket . |
| 10 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 11 | But they are not real photons at all , but virtual photons created out of the vacuum . |
| 12 | We in Britain are not extravagant consumers of medicines . |
| 13 | ‘ These are not easy questions to resolve but I think that if it is possible , actually to speak to these characters in such a way that they feel that they are valued and that they do have a part to play in the community , then we are on the way to resolving questions of this sort . |
| 14 | Projects of the International Chamber of Commerce can usually be completed much more quickly , since not only are they less formal but they are not legal instruments in themselves , simply rules or trade terms incorporated by contract , so that the legal issues are de-emphasized and , indeed , the product is primarily the work of non-lawyers . |
| 15 | Where there are good house-groups personal learning is more likely , though groups are not conducive places for everyone . |
| 16 | House-soiling , howling and barking , destructive or escape behaviours are not uncommon problems in these over-dependent relationships . |
| 17 | People who are not avid readers of Systematic Zoology and like journals that discuss such matters may find this volume a formidable prospect . |
| 18 | These are not competing principles of equal weight : the values listed in Article 10(2) are simply " a number of exceptions which must be strictly interpreted " . |
| 19 | There are just over 29,000 farm units , some of which are not full-time occupations for the owner . |
| 20 | They are not practical instruments of warfare , though they genuinely reflect the factious bellicose tendencies of their builders . |
| 21 | Some authors indeed have argued that topics such as self-image , leadership , and attitudes , all belong to ‘ social psychology ’ and are not appropriate problems for ethologists to examine . |
| 22 | ‘ Then you are not living life to the full . ’ |
| 23 | The first benefit that I believe we have gained is a better ability to define what are and are not suitable tasks for the application of AI , in particular expert systems . |
| 24 | They are not suitable instruments for exploratory research , which is best carried out by in-depth investigation of a small number of speakers . |
| 25 | Put the wormery in a cold room or an outhouse — warm rooms are not suitable places in which to keep worms . |
| 26 | Even though it is generally recognised that , at best , the principles of operant conditioning described in Verbal Behaviour contribute but a small part to our understanding of the processes of language development , this does not immediately rule out the possibility of employing techniques based upon operant conditioning to help those children who are not developing language in the normal way . |
| 27 | Throughout her article , Blum-Kulka renders Hebrew expressions used by the interviewer to direct each talk with natural-sounding English expressions which are not literal renderings of the Hebrew but which express similar modal meanings . |
| 28 | And finally , organisms are not passive recipients of their environments ; they can — animals to a greater extent than plants — choose their environment by moving from a less attractive to a more attractive location . |
| 29 | However , the railways are not passive recipients of such political pressure , but political actors and manipulators in their own right . |
| 30 | We are not passive victims of the television set . |