Example sentences of "are not the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garden centres are not the best places to buy hedging plants in large numbers : specimens are usually larger than is ideal ( large plants take longer to establish ) and more expensive than small plants bought by the dozen or hundred from specialist nurseries . |
| 2 | ARM British and French congratulations to Mr Helmut Kohl for his allies ' victory in the East German election are not the best gauge of how the West German chancellor is viewed in London and Paris . |
| 3 | But if parents are not the best judge , and doctors themselves may not always be fully conversant with a real understanding of the facts , who will be the ultimate arbiter ? |
| 4 | Pesticides alone are not the best way to achieve long term control of agricultural pests . |
| 5 | Naturally , brothers are not the best judges of a sister 's sex-appeal . |
| 6 | This being the case , summer weekends are not the best time to visit . |
| 7 | These are not the best conditions in which to study an animal — certainly , no psychologist would dare to make assumptions about normal human abilities by studying imprisoned young orphans ! |
| 8 | In a harshly competitive world the Profitboss knows that if he and his team are not the best , some other team will be . |
| 9 | When it comes into play , some of the ultimate answers are not the best ones . ’ |
| 10 | Articles in industry are not the best preparation for private practice , and unless you have a fairly fixed intention to make your career in industry or commerce you may find it difficult to settle down even for only two or three years in the atmosphere of a company 's legal department . |
| 11 | However , other research shows that these methods are not the best for actually securing a job , especially for women ( Callender , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | As we have seen , parents are not the best communicators of sex education . |
| 13 | And we are not the best . |
| 14 | Castigation and exhortation are not the best ways of doing that seeking . |
| 15 | Are not the best chances for employment in the city of Leicester and the county of Leicestershire today 's Budget and the re-election of the Conservative Government ? |
| 16 | Secondly , is not now the time for the Government seriously to consider an independent inspection service for complaints because in many cases — pindown was one , Leicestershire is another and I understand that there may be further examples at Wrexham and Bangor — the local authorities are not the best bodies to investigate the complaints ? |
| 17 | But Herks are not the best for VIP passengers and a handful of Daks remained with the unit until 1969 when the VIP element became independent as 21 Squadron . |
| 18 | However let's get into the real world and realize that er that medical people are not the best marketeers in the world . |
| 19 | If this had been so , however , it would have been a weakness : the strength of our arguments on social network ( and other social aspects of the research ) depends precisely on the fact that these socially-based criteria are not the motivating factors for our selection of linguistic variables . |
| 20 | Recognition of the true self can only come about when we show the world that we accept the fact that we are not the perfect , flawless human beings we wish to portray — when we stop living a lie . |
| 21 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 22 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 23 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 24 | When fear keeps them awake at night , parents would do well to remember that thousands of teenagers try things and then move on , that people of all ages make regular use of drugs as part of their happy , productive lives and , above all , that we are not the hapless victims of some depraved international conspiracy . |
| 25 | Tipperary after local opposition , saying the Raybestos case was worse as the Ovens objectors were trying to force changes after the statutory period for planning objections had long passed : ‘ Foreign companies coming to this country and adhering to our planning conditions will begin wondering if they can go ahead at all if they see the assurances of the IDA and the planning authorities are not the final assurances . ’ |
| 26 | It can be a relief to discover that some of the worrying physical symptoms are not the first indications of some dreaded disease but are stress-related and represent perfectly normal ways of reacting to stress . |
| 27 | Spitting and firing are not the first words to spring to mind when Yorkshire 's venerable left-arm spinner Phil Carrick is mentioned . |
| 28 | ‘ You are not the first English person to have admired Maria 's cooking . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You are not the first , you will not be the last , ’ she said , and then smiled at him . |
| 30 | ‘ Is n't it strange , Master Southgate , you are not the first to say that . |