Example sentences of "be not [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 2 | but he sort of pooh-poohed it and sort of said well you know , we 're getting a bit to old for all this modern sophistication of computers and so on , well I said well quite frankly I am not totally in agreement with you , because as you probably know Clyde was looking into a program which will could alleviate a lot |
| 3 | Victoria thinks that I am not sufficiently in love with her to want children . |
| 4 | The explanations are not flatly in conflict but neither are they compatible — a nuanced matter which suggests that facts and interpretations can not be kept apart . |
| 5 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |
| 6 | However , sex differences in achievement are not uniformly in favour of girls across all subjects : while girls regularly achieve higher numbers of passes in some subjects , boys consistently achieve higher numbers in others . |
| 7 | An 1820 Inspection report states : ‘ The clothing which was due on 25 December last was not put into wear on that day and the red jackets are not yet into wear … |
| 8 | so all of our best defenders who are not yet on contract will travel to Britain real soon now — Nilsen&Pedersen for sure : Johnsen is not yet offered a contract at Spurs . |
| 9 | Child benefit could be made taxable , or could be restricted to women whose children are not yet of school age . |
| 10 | We are not here for fun . |
| 11 | The cartoons are not just for computer scientists , though perhaps the expert will see the irony more clearly . |
| 12 | Streets , it stressed , are not just for transport and are certainly not just for cars . |
| 13 | You ask yourself if you are not just in love with a ghost . ’ |
| 14 | And when a club is in dire straits there is a tendency to be over-critical , but Everton are not just in trouble , they are in big trouble . |
| 15 | Grazing animals are , however , the major hazards for a leaf though all leaves in a pasture are not equally at risk . |
| 16 | These claims , however , are hard to substantiate because the systems for operating the market are not fully in place . |
| 17 | Botanists are not fully in accord about how many separate groups of plants there are within the conifers , and they are all lumped together here . |
| 18 | Here Bukharin was pointing out that even enterprises which are not directly in competition on the market , are in reality in competition with each other for the division of surplus-value in the form of profits . |
| 19 | Decisions as to the disqualification of a magistrate or justice of the peace , in his capacity as a judge in a criminal court , are not directly in point , but may be helpful . |
| 20 | Piecemeal solutions are not enough in education , and it is time we recognized this . |
| 21 | Aliens are not entirely without protection . |
| 22 | In the French uplands , agriculture and nature conservation are not significantly in conflict though this is not a result of policies aimed specifically at conservation objectives . |
| 23 | Somehow they must disentangle the satellites ( which are for sale ) from the land-based computers and data banks , which make sense of the satellites information but which are not apparently for sale . |
| 24 | A general briefing for editors or journalists with whom you are not often in contact , usually coupled with ideas for specific features . |
| 25 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 26 | the philosophy and objectives of the 1981 Education Act , which went some way to implementing the Warnock recommendations , are not much in evidence in the latest legislation . |
| 27 | Joan Vernikos , a life scientist at Ames , notes that the effects are not quite like osteoporosis on Earth ; microgravity appears to change the levels of calcium in the plasma as well as the way minerals are deposited in the matrix of bone . |
| 28 | This occurs because the waves are not quite in step : sometimes they reinforce each other and at other times they cancel each other out — in the same way that 1 + ( -1 ) = 0 . |
| 29 | Their settlements are not always on time . |
| 30 | This is another indication that regional and labour mobility policies are not always in conflict with each other . |