Example sentences of "they are not [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , the thing is the they 're not you know , some of them are not that nice but er |
| 2 | One objection made against West German party , lists is that MdBs chosen from them are not directly answerable to the electorate . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , many of them are not very effective . |
| 4 | But before I start with the heavy stuff , I 'd like to tell you my own theory about grown-ups and their DOs and DON'Ts and why a lot of them are not very good at dealing with children . |
| 5 | Yet the base levels derived from them are not very different from the base levels derived from the study of marine and river terraces . |
| 6 | The social worker will be like a skilled ‘ friend ’ to them , who can help them in many areas of their life , perhaps by suggesting ways of overcoming loneliness by putting them in contact with the type of activity , club , Day Centre or workshop that would interest them , and arranging suitable transport for this ; or , if they are not particularly keen on group social activities , sometimes by finding individual volunteers to visit them and take them out ; although it should be remembered that no social worker or voluntary visitor can ever be a real substitute for care from their own family . |
| 7 | They are not particularly violent fights and participants are rarely hurt . |
| 8 | They are not very loud and in terms of the volume of sound produced they are not particularly impressive . |
| 9 | Although these methods are fairly simple , very thorough and no doubt excellent for those who make interviewing a large part of their life 's work they are not particularly useful for those who may not need to exercise interviewing skills often but who want to use the interview to good effect when they do . |
| 10 | Rather , they are not particularly useful in terms of understanding located historical process . |
| 11 | They are not particularly attentive to party politics ( but they are critical of the Labour Party ) , although they are attentive to interests in British politics and are sharply critical of the pluralist perspective seeing the interest group world in terms of imperfect competition . |
| 12 | Compatibility : They are not particularly aggressive corals , and so can be placed close to each other and to other non-aggressive coelenterates such as zoanthids , Xenia pulse corals , bushy soft corals ( Simularia ) and gorgonians . |
| 13 | They are not particularly interested in a good social life , nor is a career so important to them . |
| 14 | They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us , even though they are not particularly light reading . |
| 15 | They are not particularly wing-like but separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 16 | They are not particularly high , but very elegant and their remote location makes a visit a must . |
| 17 | Even though they are not particularly high in calories you should avoid them . |
| 18 | Animals may be primitive beings but they are not thereby defective ones . |
| 19 | Although they are not completely spiny , they are nevertheless prickly enough to repel all but the most desperate of predators . |
| 20 | Although a fault tolerant Unix implementation would , for example , need a different installer to standard SVR4 — they are not completely estranged . |
| 21 | The taxes now levied on enterprise net income are essentially equivalent to value added taxes , although they are not completely uniform across republics and provinces . |
| 22 | It is possible , however , that Berkeley 's evident sensitivity to charges of scepticism is rooted not simply in his cherished hope that they are false , but also in some dim feeling that they are not completely unjust . |
| 23 | They are not little green men after all — thank God . ’ |
| 24 | They are not yet great ; but they could be — if they were allowed . |
| 25 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
| 26 | Those that do call can be given a copy of the invitation document if they are not already aware of it . |
| 27 | The leaflets , softer in tone than much of the BMA campaign , suggest that hospitals that fail to compete in the new NHS market could go bankrupt ; GPs will be forced to compete for patients , with those that take on more having less time for patients ; while ‘ opted out ’ hospitals may drop some specialist services if they are not financially viable . |
| 28 | LOEX news , USER news and INFUSE , from the three national clearinghouses , are in a different category in that they are not simply national but international in their coverage of news . |
| 29 | They are not simply comparable , since they describe rather different worlds . |
| 30 | But the relationships thus expressed are multifaceted ; they stretch outward through the whole society , they are not simply domestic . |