Example sentences of "[adj] be not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of the mammals in the Tertiary involved not only this one major diversification , but several , with major extinctions between , so that the largest mammals of the earlier parts of the Tertiary are not related to the large mammals of the Recent . |
| 2 | US-based companies will play a major role for the first time , but the Japanese are not expected to be heavily involved . |
| 3 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 4 | Because of rotation and the fact that promotion of a subordinate is not threatening to the status of a superordinate , internal managerial competition is far less than in the Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 5 | STRIVING to be better and more distinctive is not confined to the workplace for Francisco Fabrö Riera . |
| 6 | It is fairly universally accepted that Chinese is not related to any of the four other languages , so the similarity can not be because these words are cognate . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties he acknowledges is that the Irish are not given to fighting ‘ civilised ’ battles on a properly organised battle field . |
| 8 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 9 | On the other hand , feelings of attachment to a person named as very close are not related to either . |
| 10 | In terms of local organizational interests , the twin principles of decanting to London hospitals on the one hand and to another large asylum on the other were not felt to be incompatible with modernization of the service . |