Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 2 | Elections are not seen as providing a pathway to power . |
| 3 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 4 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 5 | Today 's vagrants , squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere . |
| 6 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 7 | After all , normal children , who are not identified as having language problems , show considerable variation with respect to the overall speed of language development and in terms of the relationship between the structural , semantic and functional features ( Brown 1973 ; Lieven 1978 ; Nelson 1973 ) . |
| 8 | The results are expected to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs . |
| 9 | To collect a body of information/data on the prevalence of learned helplessness and self-worth motivation in three samples of pupils , and to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs . |
| 10 | Only one of the infants with these malformations was delivered by elective caesarean section ( the one with Vater syndrome ) ; three of the four others were not recognised as presenting by the breech until labour was established , which limited the scope for prenatal diagnosis . |
| 11 | ‘ failed to comply with a condition subject to which it was granted ’ This element is proved by outlining the fact that ‘ L ’ plates were not displayed as required by law . |
| 12 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 13 | In spite of the high risk profile of the participants , that is , an average of seven previous and often recent convictions ( see above ) , 95 or 63 per cent of the sample were not recorded as having committed further offences during the twelve month follow-up . |
| 14 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 15 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 16 | In 1681 he described himself as ‘ gardener to her Majestie ’ , probably Henrietta Maria [ q.v. ] , the dowager queen , at Somerset House , before she left England in 1665 , rather than Catherine of Braganza , Charles II 's consort , who is not recorded as sharing her mother-in-law 's interest in gardening . |
| 17 | Yet , in Hungary anti-Semitism itself is not seen as posing an impediment to democracy . |
| 18 | So when it becomes clear that a criminal case is not proceeding as anticipated — a trial is not scuppered by lobbing something into the ring — there are discreet discussions between learned friends in chambers , many exchanges of the phrase ‘ I 'm much obliged ’ and finally the jury is summoned back . |
| 19 | The significant point about this first view is that whichever label is used the expansion in procedural rights is not regarded as involving any fundamental change in the nature of natural justice . |
| 20 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |
| 21 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 22 | Similarly , a woman who submits to sexual intercourse having been threatened with or fearing serious injury or death is not regarded as having consented . |
| 23 | A large shareholding ( for example , the Solvay group 's 9.7 per cent stake in Allied Chemical ) is not regarded as giving control in the absence of regular participation in management . |
| 24 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 25 | While in ( 16b ) the speaker is not represented as having any kind of expectations at all , in ( 16a ) he is : the sentence with the infinitive means that the speaker was hoping for someone to come to his assistance even before this happened . |
| 26 | Composite rate tax is not defined as falling within the description of income tax , but only as ‘ an amount representing income tax : ’ see section 343 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 . |
| 27 | Where the price is not determined as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above the buyer must pay a reasonable price . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) Where the price is not determined as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above the buyer must pay a reasonable price . |
| 29 | Gilgamesh is not reported as having any significant dreams after Enkidu 's death , and despite his continuing efforts to penetrate the mysteries it becomes increasingly apparent that his powers have waned and the gods have turned against him . |
| 30 | The judge is not reported as making any speculation as to the source of this knowledge , which is obviously from the newspapers themselves . |