Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [not/n't] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Article 13 allows the service of documents and the taking of evidence by consular and diplomatic agents in the state in which they are accredited , provided their acts are not contrary to the law of that state and involve no means of compulsion .
3 Here it seems as if , contrary to the pre-emption thesis , the original reasons are not pre-empted by the arbitrator 's decision .
4 The problem is that many injury and disease states are not apparent to the physician or the patient .
5 ‘ We protect our members by making the buying club prove that their man is an established international , whose skills are not available in the EEC .
6 If such skills are not necessary for the campaigns wanted or the solutions needed , then why bother ?
7 Other disciplines are not historical in the sense in which I have named Christianity a ‘ historical ’ religion .
8 The expensive reels are not expensive in the long term , but each model has its points of merit .
9 Since these frequencies are not present at the input they are distortion products .
10 As the quotations at the opening of this chapter suggest , the Soviet authorities are not unaware of the seriousness of their own problems .
11 In order to qualify for alternative permitted hours , the club must fulfil the following conditions ( subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ) , viz. : ( a ) that the club premises are adapted and used by members and their guests for carrying on athletic sports or games ; ( b ) that at least one of the sports or games is carried on out of doors , and in daylight ( unless artificial light is used ) ; ( c ) that the premises are regularly used during winter and the hours of daylight for a sport specified in ( b ) ; ( a ) that the usual permitted hours are not suitable for the time at which the game or sport is usually played by members and their guests for the supply of liquor to those participating in the game .
12 It should however be remarked that these optimized B II forms are not compatible with the B II e values deduced from the COSY coupling constants via the modified Karplus curve .
13 Seasonal peaks are not specific to the service sector ; they are to be found in certain parts of manufacturing — particularly In food processing but also in a number of consumer goods industries -and in agriculture .
14 It does seem strange that in many schools governors ' meetings are not open to the public .
15 But the church 's plans are not popular with the vicarage 's nearest neighbours .
16 However , these contracts are not essential for the survival of European exchanges .
17 Incentives to sell life and pensions products are not new at the Royal Bank , however .
18 This latter point is all-important for it means that political considerations are not relevant to the decision which is , of course , primarily concerned with air safety .
19 It is important to stress to the trainees that the steps are not separate from the process described in Part 3 .
20 Garden steps are not subject to the same regulations as those inside the house , so you have to decide for yourself the proportion of tread depth to rise which suits your site .
21 Such contradictions are not new in the sociological literature .
22 Also , organic eyes are not subject to the same design constraints as are cameras : fish eyes have lenses made of material whose refractive index varies continuously from the centre to the outside .
23 Not that the other parties are n't full of the sweetest intentions — Mr Major 's determination to preserve the right of women to earn £2 an hour can not be doubted , nor can the sincerity of Mr Ashdown 's belief that women 's concerns should permeate every government department .
24 the privatised companies have greater access to investment funds are not subject to the same financing restrictions as the public sector water industry
25 ’ The Scots are not dissimilar from the Jews , ’ he said .
26 This code is the only lettering which Photographic Department will actually write on the slide mount , so slide labels are not necessary at the moment .
27 Sensitization is a generalized process , for after such a shock the animal 's responses are not specific to the touch or the water squirt ; instead reactions to a wide variety of mild stimuli all become exaggerated .
28 Apart from these , the other accessories available for the standard gauge models are not available for the fine and chunky gauges .
29 But tensions are not far from the surface .
30 Binomial distributions deal with a fixed population , each of whose members may possess only one of two possible elements ( the thesis is either cited in one year , or it is not ) , and the successive values of these elements are not dependent on the previous values ( a citation in one year does not imply a lack of citation in a following year ) .
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