Example sentences of "and [am/are] not [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These officers , who wear the uniform of the service to which they are assigned and are not accountable to the Ministry of Defence , are often unknown to their nominal military superiors . |
| 2 | With the exception of smoking , the most important risk factors identified in this study are markers of a diathesis for slow healing and are not amenable to modification . |
| 3 | PAR reports , as with so many other government reports , are classified and are not available to anyone except a small number of ministers and senior civil servants . |
| 4 | All mortgages are subject to status and valuation and are not available to persons under 18 years of age . |
| 5 | All Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote if they are 18 , are resident in a parliamentary constituency on the qualifying date , and are not subject to any legal incapacity and appear in the appropriate register of electors . |
| 6 | Households are similarly rationed in the goods market , i.e. , on account of ( a ) their failure to sell labour services and ( b ) the unwillingness of firms to produce any more than Y. By way of contrast , firms are in continuous neoclassical equilibrium and are not subject to quantity rationing in either the goods market or the labour market . |
| 7 | Drugs have a minor role : tricyclic antidepressants have little effect and are not suitable to be kept in households where there is a combination of young children and stress . |
| 8 | Already Hewlett-Packard Co has gone about 70% of the way to fitting out its HP 9000 as well as its rapidly ‘ opening ’ HP 3000s with the facilities that mainframe users expect and demand , and machines like Sequent Computer Systems Inc 's Symmetries and NCR Corp 's multi-80486 machines are offering the performance that mainframe users need at a fraction of the price IBM has traditionally demanded , and are not blind to the fact that to win mainframe users ' hearts and minds , they will have to offer the stability and functionality and versatility of the mainframe . |
| 9 | Banks also advertise their executorship services , which may be appropriate in some circumstances — but bank charges for acting as executor are high , and are not open to challenge or independent assessment in the same way as solicitors ' fees . |
| 10 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 11 | The standards of competence , on which the qualifications are based , are nationally accepted and are not peculiar to an individual examining body . |
| 12 | Most warranties are aimed at undisclosed liabilities and problems of the target and are not particular to the UK . |
| 13 | Like many carnivores , Killers seem to be adaptable , taking whatever prey is available and are not averse to salmon if they find them massing in an estuary prior to spawning . |
| 14 | They are quite happy to question you , though , and are not averse to having a look through your personal items when your back is turned . |
| 15 | And are n't averse to using fairly unpleasant methods to er to get the money back if you begin to default on payments . |