Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As children , we are not taught to use our innate perceptive abilities . |
| 2 | They are not taught programming as such , but learn to connect pre-constructed modules in such a way as to design effective programs . |
| 3 | As we have said , many children are not taught to read . |
| 4 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 5 | Agency staff or their principals are not asked to judge classes , with the exception of the solo editors ' class , from which agency personnel are barred . |
| 6 | The failure at national level to recognise the need for initial training qualifications for community languages has led local education authorities and schools to deploy teachers whose initial qualification has been gained in a main subject other than the language which they are not asked to promote . |
| 7 | In these cases the framework for college membership will have to be negotiated carefully to ensure that students from Compact schools are not asked to work towards targets they have already achieved . |
| 8 | Pluralist critics complained that panels of interviewees are not asked to specify the areas in which powerful leaders are reputed to be influential , that the reputational method is heavily dependent upon the selections of panels , and that a reputation for being powerful is not the same thing as direct evidence of success in getting your way over other people 's opposition ( Dahl , 1958 ; Polsby , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | In other words , signers are not asked to try to communicate information to a foreign signer , but are instructed to use their own sign languages when addressing a same- or different-language partner . |
| 10 | Here , they are quiet as mice throughout Act 1 and are not heard to applaud at the end . |
| 11 | Owners of contaminated houses want to know if they have any comeback , those of houses which are not contaminated want the ban on their properties lifted immediately . |
| 12 | They benefit management but they " are not undertaken to please management . |
| 13 | For example , railway investments are not evaluated using the same cost-benefit techniques that are used in road planning , despite recommendations that this should be done ( see , e.g. , Leitch 1977 ) . |
| 14 | Domestic ovens are not constructed to take continual punishment : the door might be opened and closed over 50 times a day , frequently slammed shut and generally abused by the busy caterer . |
| 15 | If you suggest that we have produced ineffective propaganda , that may well be true , but doctors are not trained to do that . |
| 16 | For example , attenders are usually expected to get there under their own steam ; ordinary ambulance services have been reluctant to ferry day patients , and local ambulance service personnel are not trained to understand why an able-bodied young man lacks sufficient motivation as a result of schizophrenia to make his own way half a mile down the road to the day hospital . |
| 17 | Given such a responsible , indeed daunting task , it seems paradoxical that parents are not trained to rear their children ; and children certainly are n't in a position to bring themselves up properly without help . |
| 18 | Medjays are not trained to investigate such things as these , ’ repeated Merymose . |
| 19 | ‘ The politest thing one can say ’ , he said , ‘ is that that is the wisdom of hindsight by people who are not trained to know better in that area ’ . |
| 20 | Nevertheless the political and social motivation of some librarians and the antics of the media in frequently misrepresenting the situation when books are or are not selected have brought the two practices so uncomfortably close that we are being forced to justify what is undoubtedly a professional task of the very highest order and demanding considerable skill . |
| 21 | In employment systems , after all , people are not mustered to play together as their manager beats time . |
| 22 | But the principles of democratic government are not framed to make life easy for political leaders ; they are concerned with ‘ government of the people , for the people and by the people ’ . |
| 23 | These are not intended to represent any specific location , but explore possible burial histories for an undeformed layer cake thrust sheet built up from the following thicknesses : 2.5 km of Cambrian ( after Caledonian erosion — originally 2.75 km ) ; 3 km of Devonian ; 2 km of Lower Carboniferous ; 2 km of Upper Carboniferous . |
| 24 | They are not intended to serve as illustrations of something more general . |
| 25 | These clauses are merely extracts ; they are not intended to form the basis of a precedent and should not be used as one . |
| 26 | The provisions of this Code are not intended to form part of any contract entered into between registrants and third parties unless expressly incorporated into such contract and should not be regarded as creating a collateral contract between registrants and third parties . |
| 27 | These specialists or ‘ consultants ’ are not intended to teach only their own subject . |
| 28 | In the paragraphs that follow the references to party manifestoes are not intended to do more than to highlight some of the more obvious differences in emphasis . |
| 29 | The few reservations I have expressed about the encyclopedia are not intended to detract from its excellence . |
| 30 | Modified accounts are not intended to give a fair and true view of the company and it is therefore not necessary for such accounts to comply with the disclosure provisions of SSAP . |