Example sentences of "[noun] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that the stop signs , the visibility is n't erm again , he 's going to s to erm er he says that the stop signs , the visibility is n't bad enough , that the , the difficulties in visibility are n't bad enough , but he 's going to reexamine that particular situation . |
| 2 | ‘ The outlaws are not like that ? ’ |
| 3 | Do n't be afraid to cash in policies — banks and financial institutions are n't always as safe as houses . |
| 4 | The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care . |
| 5 | ‘ Too many of its institutions are not accountable enough to the people , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 6 | As you are aware , these two institutions are not charity organisations ; their programmes are conditional on real progress being made on reform . |
| 7 | And just as laws and institutions are not the only means of controlling governments , so too they are not the only means available to governments for achieving their policy goals . |
| 8 | Societies do change , and their social institutions are not immune to innovation , reform or rebellion . |
| 9 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 10 | And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom . |
| 11 | The survey also found that 74 per cent of the heads of institutions are not confident of the Government 's ability to develop and implement a coherent and successful higher education policy . |
| 12 | Evidence in this area has led to the conclusion that institutions are not capable of providing adequate parenting for the very young child and to the statement by the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1983 ) to the Standing Committee on Children in Care in Britain that no child under the age of three years should ever be placed in a residential nursery . |
| 13 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 14 | Durkheim commented on the difficulty of regarding ‘ an enlightened Catholic of to-day as a sort of retarded savage ’ , but he provided the reminder that ‘ the most primitive religions are not the only ones which have attributed this power of propagation to the sacred character ’ . |
| 15 | Although Judaism and Islam , like paganism , recognise in at least some of their sacred literature the existence of many gods , the gods in these religions are not all of equal power . |
| 16 | Most of these homelands are not even single stretches of territory , but are formed from a series of pockets of land interspersed among white areas . |
| 17 | I do n't think there was ; you live a very open life in the Army the secrets are n't personal ones … |
| 18 | But some secrets are not good and should never be kept . |
| 19 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 20 | It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the elements of thermodynamics , statistical mechanics and elasticity to the level of an honours degree in physics or chemistry but since continuum mechanics and viscoelasticity are not commonly found in such courses a detailed account of them is give in Chaps 2 and 3 , Chap . |
| 21 | Clive Turner , who has been in the position since September 1989 , has written curriculum guidance on HIV/AIDS , for the DipSW course , but child sexual abuse is not featured because CCETSW 's line is that sexual abuse and child protection are not DipSW level . |
| 22 | Some amateur rose-growers are not interested , but more than just a few regard hybridizing and crossing their roses to see what happens as the summit of the rose-grower 's art , so here is a short discourse for them on this delightful aspect of rose growing . |
| 23 | And he 's intelligent enough to know that HOP are n't gon na get off that easily . |
| 24 | British Coal said : ‘ While we will be giving detailed consideration to the report , it is apparent the independent assessment conducted by Boyd substantially supports our view that these mines are not viable in a market which is being squeezed both on volume and price . ’ |
| 25 | British Coal said : ‘ While we will be giving detailed consideration to the report , it is apparent the independent assessment conducted by Boyd substantially supports our view that these mines are not viable in a market which is being squeezed both on volume and price . ’ |
| 26 | The exact boundaries of Barama 's concession are not yet known , but it is believed to contain groups of Warrau , Lokono , Karinya and Akawaio Indians . |
| 27 | Well they 're good for dry throats are n't they ? |
| 28 | Why you 're going to take me out to er Easy Runner are n't you ? |
| 29 | Lying git are n't you ? |
| 30 | The errors of PS are not the main point . |