Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 2 | I announce that I plan to throw one honey of a tantrum , complete with sound effects and meteorological events , if I am not instantly issued with a remote to keep tabs on my subject . |
| 3 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 4 | Although I am not entirely convinced by the contents of the motion , I agree with parts of it . |
| 5 | But Merlins are not infrequently recorded along the Downs and are seen very occasionally further inland . |
| 6 | The Association blames the fact that incinerators are not automatically checked by the Pollution Inspectorate or local environmental health officers . |
| 7 | ‘ We are not automatically recognised in the market-place as innovative and technically oriented , and this belies our actual achievements , ’ he says . |
| 8 | When modules are entered into LIFESPAN , they are not automatically deleted from the user 's account . |
| 9 | In our discussion in Chapter 1 about economy , efficiency and effectiveness , the technical problem was how we can meaningfully compare inputs and outputs to produce a measure of efficiency when outputs are not automatically valued by the market price . |
| 10 | MORRISSEY is to play a pre-Christmas gig in Paris and , in response to recent criticisms ( not least in these pages ) , special schemes are being put in place to ensure fans are not again inconvenienced by a last-minute cancellation . |
| 11 | ‘ We are especially keen to attract young people and women as they are not adequately represented within the Society , although we have members from 19 to 92 ’ . |
| 12 | Because of their belief that women 's concerns and activities are not adequately covered in the mainstream media , women 's groups have produced their own alternative magazines , radio , TV and A/V programmes , and have even started their own press services . |
| 13 | There may well be gender differences in attitudes to paid work , but these are not adequately demonstrated by the reiteration of the old adage that women 's primary role is a family one . |
| 14 | Problems ( again not attributable to readers ) were also caused by items which are not adequately identified by the pressmark supplied in their catalogue entry ( 9% ) , and by serials , of which the location of a particular issue may not be evident from information available in the Issue Hall ( 6% ) , while the sending of call-slips to an inappropriate part of the Library also caused some delay ( 4% ) . |
| 15 | They have complained , above all , that they are not adequately reported by the federally owned media during or after the monthly meetings which they have held regularly since coming to power in October 1979 . |
| 16 | Lastly , the sub-district or neighbourhood network comprises connections to buildings that are not immediately connected to the district or city network , together with typical neighbourhood links . |
| 17 | If items are not immediately preceded by a printable prompt string ( even if null ) then a " ? " will be printed as a prompt . |
| 18 | Each of the words in the sentence will be recognised , but they are not easily integrated into an underlying meaning . |
| 19 | As with any legal document , a record contract contains clauses and phrases which are not easily understood by the layman . |
| 20 | The bank machines were situated too high in the wall , so are not easily operated from a wheelchair ( many of the instructions were not visible ) . |
| 21 | The confused events of the 450s and 460s are not easily squared with the literary image of the period purveyed by Sidonius . |
| 22 | In more complex animals , consistencies are not easily found on the surface and many of us feel the need to postulate structural regularity beneath the surface if we are to make sense of what we see . |
| 23 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 24 | However , because they are ‘ heads of households ’ , lone mothers do show up more readily in the statistics ( that is , when they are not partially hidden in the category of ‘ lone parent ’ ) . |
| 25 | The consequences of this disparity are not completely offset by the greater efficiency of the NHS . |
| 26 | It is as if such mimicry rips the word away from its object , disunifies the two , shows that a given straightforward generic word — epic or tragic — is one-sided , bounded , incapable of exhausting the object ; the process of parodying forces us to experience those sides of the object that are not otherwise included in a given genre or a given style . |
| 27 | Flow charts are a useful record of a process but are not particularly suited as a basis for analysis which might lead to improved job design or training . |
| 28 | Some similarities can be misleading , because animals can superficially resemble one another that are not closely related in an evolutionary sense . |
| 29 | Terms which are not expressly agreed between the parties but inserted by law into the contract are called implied terms . |
| 30 | This covers topics such as : the calibration of hot-wires ( this is always necessary — hot-wires are not absolute instruments ) ; the geometrical combinations of hot-wires needed for measuring different components of velocity fluctuations ( a particularly important arrangement being two wires in the form of an X as shown in Fig. 25.2 ) ; the particular problems in achieving accuracy that arise when the velocity fluctuations are not small compared with the mean velocity ; the problems associated with velocity measurements in the presence of temperature variations , to which a hot-wire probe is also sensitive ; and much else . |