Example sentences of "[be] not [adj] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some customers prefer goods which are not mass-produced and seek a wider range of products |
| 2 | Innovation is acknowledged to contribute to economic growth , social benefit and survival in the competitive world , yet many organizations are not innovative and mimic the innovators to stay in the race . |
| 3 | Clearly these transects are not comprehensive and omit the distinctive nature of mountainous Barra or the sandstone based Eye Peninsula near Stornoway or the many small uninhabited islands , but these transects highlight the distinction between the low Atlantic coastlands with machair-land and crofting settlement on the west , and the areas of empty mountains and the extensive peat-covered plateaux of the east and most of the interior regions . |
| 4 | Sometimes now if I if I 'm not careful and put a bit too much |
| 5 | What 's to stop you simply saying that my designs are n't suitable and demanding the money , whether it 's true or not ? ’ |
| 6 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 7 | They decided that her objections to adoption were not unreasonable and dismissed an appeal by the local authority against a county court judge 's rejection of its adoption proposal on the grounds that it was premature . |
| 8 | Instead of accepting that their normal circuit is not possible and organising an alternative , they may try to make their formal pattern and so run themselves into an even more difficult situation . |
| 9 | It is not user-friendly and leaves a lot to be desired for a software support product — rather surprising considering that the DSP32C is a very impressive device . |
| 10 | In chapter four the " turnyng til Jhesu " from all worldly things ( 94.2 ) is like the " insuperabel " love , while the second degree , " inseperabel " relates to the injunction to remember that all time is lost which is not God-centred and to contemplate the joy of those who are stable in this love until death ( 95.38f . ) . |
| 11 | So the true level of SCOTVEC activity is not apparent and prevents the presence of subject assessors being fully exploited by centres ’ staff . ’ |
| 12 | It is a skill which can be developed — but it is not easy and requires a great deal of hard work . |
| 13 | ‘ In the prevailing economic climate , dominated by low dollar oil prices , the task is not easy and demands a high level of cost consciousness which I shall be promoting throughout the group . ’ |
| 14 | John is not malicious and has no political leanings . |
| 15 | Of the four basic variables utilised , the rate of change of wages is not significant and has the wrong ( negative ) sign . |
| 16 | Long column headings must be abbreviated or made multi-line so that the eye travel for lateral comparisons is not excessive and to avoid the need to present a table side-on . |
| 17 | This selection is not difficult and requires no academic training . |
| 18 | Her nature ( a just monarch or a sentimental female ? ) makes her clement — but the text is clear that this form of clemency is not desirable and suppresses the perpetrators of justice not its opponents . |
| 19 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 20 | So the fire and its subsequent flood , which destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors ' problems , did not mark its end . |
| 21 | If the defendant proves that he was not aware and had no reasonable grounds for supposing that the patent existed , then neither damages nor accounts of profits are available . |
| 22 | William II was not popular and offended the monastic chroniclers , but he met with an accident and died on a hunting trip in the New Forest , in August 1100 . |
| 23 | They claimed Robert Shaw , 56 , had been an election worker for the Irish Republican Army 's political wing , Sinn Fein , but the party said that was not true and branded the killing sectarian murder . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll mek this the best weddin' in the district , ’ she blustered , but Mary was n't interested and climbed the stairs without another word . |