Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not against the general tenor of that which is sought . |
| 2 | ‘ But I am not in the outside world , my lord , ’ smiled Joan . |
| 3 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 4 | I am not in the slightest bit interested in the periphery , ’ says Gregory . |
| 5 | There continues to exist an element of uncertainty as all EC member countries are not at the same level of preparedness to proceed at an identical pace towards the final stage of European monetary unification . |
| 6 | When you are not on the international panel it is hard to work your way in . |
| 7 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 8 | When a movement called Christians for Socialism started in 1972 , they chose to have their inaugural meeting in Santiago and received a message from the President assuring them that ‘ Divisions today are not on the religious level or on the level of philosophic ideas : the real division is between imperialism and dependent countries . ’ |
| 9 | The royal pair are not on the Civil List . |
| 10 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 11 | The piano sonatas of Sir Michael Tippett are not on the same level of inspiration and invention as his string quartets , symphonies or concertos . |
| 12 | A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end . |
| 13 | ‘ Your forearms are not under the same sort of strain . |
| 14 | companies , wh wh which are not of the western world , that we 've ever come across . |
| 15 | The stillness , the poise , of perfect symmetry are not of the everyday world . |
| 16 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 17 | He believes longer climbs such as Jibé Tribout 's Just Do It ( see Reports ) , Which rely more heavily on stamina than power , are not of the same order of difficulty . |
| 18 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 19 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 20 | Ryle 's point is that , since the terms ‘ mind ’ and ‘ body ’ are not of the same category , it is illegitimate to relate them logically in this way . |
| 21 | The strain of the foster colony is chosen for good mothering ability and preferably the coat colour should be different from the animals to be fostered , or the mating arranged so that the natural young of the foster mother are not of the same coat colour as the pups to be fostered . |
| 22 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 23 | Nurses therefore are not in the individual patient/nurse relationship from choice , but in the capacity of making a professional contribution . |
| 24 | If these are not in the right position for your track , you can make fixings with special plasterboard plugs , but you should then avoid hanging heavy curtains . |
| 25 | They are not in the right order . |
| 26 | If there are not enough lawyers , or they are not in the right place , knowing that a solicitor can be of assistance is of no value . |
| 27 | Two methods tend to be used in this type of kidnapping : the woman may impersonate a nurse , giving the mother a bogus reason for taking her baby out of the room , or she may take the neonate from the nursery when nursing staff are not in the immediate area . |
| 28 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 29 | Some of the loudest voices there are not in the best tradition . |
| 30 | The Corinthians are not in the privileged position of judges between theological niceties . |