Example sentences of "[be] not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I have passed my test , I am not allowed out on the road without insurance . |
| 2 | Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ? |
| 3 | And in January it goes on sale at Ryman so homeowners can ensure their freezers or video recorders are not turned off by mistake . |
| 4 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 5 | However , standard terms are not prepared simply for the court , but for everyday use by the drafter 's business client and its trading partners ; headings and layout will help those persons to use the document , acting as convenient " road signs " to identify and locate relevant parts of the document . |
| 6 | All your enthusiasm vanishes ; not only have you not been able to ‘ do ’ it , but you are now convinced you are not cut out for mathematics teaching at all and none of your pupils could produce anything like that . |
| 7 | It has also helped write rules for community cable access and worked to ensure that the poor are not cut off from the benefits of new telephone technologies . |
| 8 | Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . " |
| 9 | This means that our assessments of what is on offer are not governed solely by what is before us . |
| 10 | The new pediplanation approach springs from the work of W. Penck , Kirk Bryan and Jessen … ( p 643 ) the sequence of major cyclic denudation upon all the continents alternating with episodes of elevation and mountain building , together with the relations of both phases , through coastal plain and shelf deposits , with major events in the ocean basins , are not disturbed haphazardly through geologic time but are in broad temporal conformity one with another . |
| 11 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 12 | Regional brewers are not affected directly by them . |
| 13 | For the scales on the ‘ objective ’ measuring devices used to derive the data upon which the laws are founded are not validated independently of subjective experience . |
| 14 | While the negotiation of outcomes between central government and local government is important , proposals are not generated directly from factions or product champions internal to the authorities concerned . |
| 15 | If the documents in question are not sent out with a letter , but are signed at the conveyancer 's office , then it is important to set out a memorandum recording the date and time at which the document was signed and also how the document was explained to the client . |
| 16 | Following Lea ( 1984 ) , they suggest that true conceptual categories involve equivalence classes of stimuli that are not tied together by perceptual similarity , Mediated generalization is clearly not to be regarded , according to this view , as making the stimuli perceptually more similar . |
| 17 | By contrast , the terms kinship , magic , myth and ritual , are devoid of any general agreed meaning and are not tied in with any clearly identifiable set of representative social roles . |
| 18 | High technology industries are not tied down by transport costs : one tonne of microchips is worth anything up to 100 000 times a tonne of steel plate , so chips tend to travel by air . |
| 19 | However , these proposals are not based currently on thorough understanding of the consequences . |
| 20 | These two contrasting events emphasize the central fact that even natural hazards are not defined solely by the characteristics of the event but by the interaction of those events with the human occupation of the threatened area . |
| 21 | Episodes Four and Five saw the turn of Jacqueline Hill ( Barbara ) to take a fortnight 's holiday — her character being conveniently left aboard the space-craft , the sets of which are not seen again after Part Three . |
| 22 | But we are not seen merely as passive recipients in these interaction processes ; we bring our own autonomous motives and meanings to bear on them — we are at least partially ‘ free ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps monotony , fragmentation and excessive pace are noted by few housewives and are not bound up with a dominant feeling of dissatisfaction . |
| 24 | But the repercussions for residential workers , because they are not involved administratively in decision making ( Packman et al. , |
| 25 | Most workers have no idea of what is done with ‘ their ’ savings , even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management . |
| 26 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 27 | In Chapter 5 of that book , entitled ‘ The Problem of the Empirical Base ’ , he set out an account of observation and observation statements that took account of the fact that infallible observation statements are not given directly through sensory perceptions . |
| 28 | We are not employed just for work — dull , boring , monotonous work . |
| 29 | Others are not employed directly by the ruling class and work in the liberal arts and service professions . |
| 30 | Although MAS will obviously be seeking to create an auction , it is normal to state that the vendors are not motivated purely by financial concerns but give great importance to other factors such as finding the right buyer , etc . |