Example sentences of "as [pers pn] are not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just so long as you are not intending to ask me not to leave London . |
| 2 | You hesitate as you are not convinced of the quality of the scientific work ; test-tube fusion later turns out to be real and your university , your employers , lose billions of dollars in royalties . |
| 3 | ‘ As you are not free to go yourself I merely wondered whether you might not feel my absence . ’ |
| 4 | As long as you are not from London , Mr Bodenland , like all the rest of the tedious world — and as long as your business is not with me — and mercifully private , to boot — perhaps you will honour me by joining me in a glass of claret . |
| 5 | Answer guide : On the face of it you may not need much financial information as you are not judged on profitability over which you have little control as selling prices and buying prices are fixed . |
| 6 | As you are not interested I shall accept Greenwood 's offer tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 8 | This is difficult as we are not used to doing it , preferring to keep these approaches in separate compartments . |
| 9 | ( It will be found in Volume I of Hume 's Treatise which should be read at first hand , as we are not trying to do it any justice here . ) |
| 10 | " So long as we are not measuring the rate of depletion year by year , we have no basis for guessing how soon the asphyxiation of large parts of the Pacific might begin " , warned Dyson . |
| 11 | No action is needed today as they are not encroaching into the British Sector . |
| 12 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 13 | The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain . |
| 14 | Writing is the essential tool , even when the sources are not written ( as they are not for oral historians ) . |
| 15 | As they are not programmed , it is impossible to tell precisely how they work . |
| 16 | Clearly , there are also people ready to take these jobs at the going rate , and not too discontented as long as they are not the breadwinner in their family , and are thus able to regard their wage as additional to the basic family income . |
| 17 | Many schools produce aims which are essentially vague aspirations and objectives which are unattainable as they are not translatable into actions nor can their achievement be measured . |
| 18 | ‘ We learnt that it is hard to build models to scale from a drawing as they are not very accurate in size . |
| 19 | Fattening pastures , as opposed to land where growing youngstock is reared or dairy cows kept , require little manure apart from the droppings of the grazing animals , as they are not exporting bone ( phosphorus ) or milk ( calcium ) from the land . |
| 20 | Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted . |
| 21 | For the most part , the enzymes that our ancestors evolved to tackle natural chemicals work pretty well on synthetic ones — as long as they are not overwhelmed by the amount they have to detoxify . |
| 22 | Richard Roxburgh ( Letters , April ) seems to suggest that it is alright for BBC Enterprises to produce training videos as long as they are not successful . |
| 23 | Many of the questions asked may surprise the newcomer to homoeopathy as they are not ones that a GP usually asks . |
| 24 | The flat rate addition is not a rate of VAT , it merely compensates farmers for the VAT they can not reclaim on business purchases , as they are not VAT-registered . |
| 25 | Moules ( mussels ) are a more adventurous course — while they are high in cholesterol , they are very low in calories , as long as they are not bathed in a rich sauce . |
| 26 | Use a touch of paler pink on lids , as long as they are not too prominent . |
| 27 | The existence of a good counselling relationship will overcome such mishaps , as long as they are not too frequent or too insensitive . |
| 28 | Dumper trucks will normally not be classified as motor vehicles as they are not intended or adapted for use on roads . |
| 29 | There have been extensive criticisms of these tests as they are not predictive of later ability but they provide a rough guideline to any inequalities across the range of developmental areas . |
| 30 | Sex toys when used with a partner , as long as they are not shared . |