Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But sometimes politicians have to be seen to respond to public concerns , if they are not to hand ammunition to their opponents . |
2 | My little excesses are not for public Access |
3 | The end doors , with sliding glass-panel window for ventilation , are not for passenger use . |
4 | If you are not on income support at the moment and you wish to make a claim for benefit , please apply to the Council now . |
5 | And for people who are not on income support , in other words they have means higher than that , but who do receive attendance allowance , their charge will go up from eight ninety at the moment to fifteen pounds . |
6 | However loans can be available to meet the costs of fuel which are not on mains supply , such as coal , oil , paraffin , or bottled ( LPG ) gas . |
7 | We the women of South Africa are not against family planning . |
8 | Miss Taylor said : ‘ Mr Patten wants to pile children high and teach them cheap but they are not like soap powder . ’ |
9 | If you 're not on income support or housing benefit |
10 | You have to have another one if you 're in cou , if you 're not in council accommodation from the l which we issue as well . |
11 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
12 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
13 | Their rates of pay were normally 3/ to 3/6 a day when they were not on piece work . |
14 | In defence of Dixon 's there are DTP packages that will run on an Amstrad 5086 — Timeworks 3 for GEM for example so they were not in fact wrong . |
15 | But despite this controversy , methods of birth control were not in fact alien to the working class and in the use of contraception we can again see distinctive patterns . |
16 | Everyone was making sure that they were not in flesh contact with any of the furniture , walls or floor . |
17 | Ah most squads were on piece work but you might find that you had If it was n't an apprentice squad , you might find that you had a squad of riveters who were n't on piece work , who simply went round doing any wee odds and ends that had |
18 | So you invariably find that they were n't on piece work . |
19 | Regionalism is not about service delivery . |
20 | The decision in the Hoffmann-La Roche case is not about law enforcement actions in general . |
21 | The argument in the 1990s is not about resource depletion but about changes in climate which will concern life and health as well as , ultimately , wealth . |
22 | ‘ And that bastard , ’ he added , nodding towards Luke , ‘ is not worth doin' time for . ’ |
23 | The proposal is not for freight traffic to go through King 's Cross . |
24 | Module is not a package/Module is not of type Package |
25 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |
26 | A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots : make welfare reward work . |
27 | But we must not be misled by the atmosphere of religious exaltation : the pagans are , by implication , cattle for the slaughter ; the call is not to missionary work , nor even to humane conquest , if such a thing exists , but to slaughter . |
28 | Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports . |
29 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
30 | This is not to limit faith , but to recognise that it is increasingly difficult to maintain a high figure based on small numbers . |