Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In times of economic difficulty it 's not only debt that causes problems . |
| 2 | For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient . |
| 3 | In pleading , however , for home-grown evangelists we are not excluding the role of the itinerant evangelist . |
| 4 | Well they have bigger detached houses I 'm not sure how individual they actually are . |
| 5 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 6 | Now that they were working different hours it was not so easy for him to contrive to meet her ‘ accidentally on purpose ’ as Anne privately called it . |
| 7 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Although ever watchful of her enviously slim figure she was not obsessive , and loved to dine out . |
| 9 | In some African francophone countries it is not unusual for government data-processing offices to close down for lack of paper . |
| 10 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 11 | He felt like telling the old folk it was not New Year 's Eve , but he doubted if they would believe him . |
| 12 | When we are engaged in an informal social chat we are not usually trying to express ourselves succinctly or precisely . |
| 13 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 14 | Unlike commercial banks they are not public limited companies , their ‘ shares ’ being the deposits made by their investors . |
| 15 | And then there was the odd case of Janice Young , who was , if anyone ever was , the doomed and unalterable scapegoat she was not pretty , she was not clever , she was not good at games , and yet , during her fifteenth year , she managed to make herself acceptable as one of the inner ring . |
| 16 | Research shows that where older disabled people have high incomes they are not so restricted and are able to participate in activities — such as going on summer holidays and having evenings out — that are enjoyed by younger non-disabled people . |
| 17 | Also audiences clearly find in opera a spiritual intensity and cathartic richness they are not always getting from the straight theatre . |
| 18 | But where the landlord has no such obligations , then in the absence of an express right he is not entitled to enter the demised property in order to carry out repairs even where the tenant has failed to repair and is in breach of covenant ( Regional Properties Ltd v City of London Real Property Co Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 64 ) . |
| 19 | Casual encounters that ended in bed had never been her scene , and in today 's sexual climate they were not simply tacky , but positively dangerous . |
| 20 | With these unrealistic expectations I 'm not sure who stands to lose the most — my daughter believing that you need a man , wealth and preferably a title to be happy , or my son who believes that women are beautiful and passive or wicked and powerful but , either way , he 'd better be handsome . |
| 21 | In Cookham Wood , especially , there are so many lesbian officers it 's not true . |
| 22 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 23 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 24 | On agriculturally unimproved moorlands it is not easy to exceed the maximum stocking density ( 6 sheep/hectare ) for HLCAs because it is often not possible to support more than 2 per hectare . |
| 25 | A chip off the old block he was not . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , although this is clearly an important and interesting exhibition it is not one that we would wish to accommodate here , essentially because — practicalities aside — we are not a general art exhibition venue , and as a matter of policy only mount displays which relate to our collections or , more broadly , to the world of books . |
| 27 | The Ormesby Hall club , whose home games are played in the grounds of the National Trust property , is now in its fourth year and contrary to popular belief it 's not just old ladies and vicars who participate in the genteel Sunday afternoon pastime . |
| 28 | If you work in financial public relations you are not a generalist — you are a keen specialist for your work is not , as you might suppose , just about money but about investment , capital , tax , financial packages and products , stocks , shares , bonds , management and corporate reputations . |
| 29 | I 've got a funny feeling I 'm not inviting you round to my house ! |
| 30 | That 's what adopting means it 's not actually committing . |