Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But sadly the works of art are not destined for any gallery … they remain a very private and personal part of Kylie 's life .
2 But should we assume the same training is required by the lion 's share of our undergraduates who are not destined for academic careers ?
3 Mark has only some thirty verses which are not repeated in one or both of the other two Gospels .
4 Overall , fourteen high intensity blockage sites ( mole fraction greater than 0.025 ) were identified in the regions probed from the UV5 and N25 promoters and twelve of these are summarised in Fig. 5 in the form of a bidirectional transcription footprint ( note that sites at 106 and 110 from the UV5 promoter are not represented on this summation since they are outside of the region probed by the N25 promoter ) .
5 It does n't make sense , does it ? … this way we are not represented at all .
6 Unlike a sport like skiing , the considerable risks are not matched with sufficient exhilaration to kindle my interest , although I would n't say no if a boyfriend were to slip naked into one of those clanking climbing harnesses after a hot bath and a glass of wine .
7 In Africa , the high overall incidence of STDs , fuelled by lack of effective STD control , means that antenatal interventions are unlikely to be very effective if they are not matched by equivalent or corresponding measures to control STDs in the general population .
8 However , the Commissioner will consider each case individually-the merits of one case are not balanced against another .
9 Barrier methods such as condoms are not favoured by Turkish men , and campaigns to encourage men to have vasectomies have proved a dismal failure .
10 Without the status and obligations of a church organist , singers and players are not prepared in great numbers to accept the demands of weekly services and rehearsals .
11 It has been found , however , that the corrosive effects of digestion on bones and teeth in the predator 's stomach are not duplicated by any other alteration process and so may be used to identify bone assemblages derived from predators .
12 It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’
13 Because of this , when Muslim children are not withdrawn from religious education lessons it is usually because the parents are not aware of these lessons .
14 ‘ If we are going to get reliable evidence from children and make our own evaluation of what they are saying then it is absolutely essential the stories are not contaminated by those who are being accused with the responsibility for harm or neglect . ’
15 However , although epileptiform tracings can support a diagnosis , they are not detected in all epileptic patients .
16 It is also easy to see the patches of dark nebulosity which are not illuminated by any convenient stars , and make their presence known by blotting out the light of objects beyond .
17 What we can see , though , is that critical enterprises or cultural reproductions are not undertaken by disinterested participants removed from the concerns of their own historic moment .
18 Spontaneous examples of positive performance such as using specific knowledge , rounding , correcting and so on are generally recorded during oral interaction with pupils and are not revealed by written tests which ask for specific answers to specific questions .
19 Generally indecent assault and gross indecency cases against males reported in the national press are not characterised by overt violence , but point to the dangers of the persuasive powers of people in positions of trust taking sexual advantage .
20 But yesterday and last night , however they are related , are not related as causal circumstance and effect .
21 Since the ratings for the number of fixed objects in a film are not related to actual recognition sensitivity it seems likely that this information is not assisting subjects in the recognition phase .
22 Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein .
23 Supervision is vital in maintaining the highest standards : every Rentokil branch has dedicated supervisors as well as drawing on field biologists and quality assurance inspectors whose salaries are not related to any trading performance incentive .
24 On the other hand , feelings of attachment to a person named as very close are not related to either .
25 First of all , laboratory experiments on hypnosis and memory are not conducted on stressed individuals , but most people interviewed by the police are upset .
26 It is possible that a dilated colon would generate only very low amplitude contractions that are not distinguished during manometric studies .
27 The commands and statements are listed alphabetically for ease of reference , they are not separated into 2 sections .
28 In this sentence , the stressed syllables are given numbers : syllables 1 and 2 are not separated by any unstressed syllables , 2 and 3 are separated by one unstressed syllable , 3 and 4 by two and 4 and 5 by three .
29 Hence , although the connections are not automatic and are not embraced by all who call themselves idealists , there is an affinity between Idealists , idealists and an interpretative approach , just as there is between Realists , realists and a scientific one .
30 Among the cases in which the options are not stacked like this , is that in which the sanctions and disapproval exist against behaviour which is in fact frequent and not the subject , perhaps , of any deep personal disinclination ; this , at the limit , is pure humbug , like the old school-master 's attitude to masturbation .
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