Example sentences of "are [verb] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 2 | For appeals against sentences imposed by magistrates are heard not by the Court of Appeal , but by the Crown Court . |
| 3 | That is done through the planning system and the fact that appeals are heard not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State but by the Department of the Environment . |
| 4 | Well , they are played but not , not very often , and they are treated not with the same respect as we treat them . |
| 5 | Seeking to economise its use , Daedalus reflected that most wooden structures are limited not by the strength of wood , but by its stiffness . |
| 6 | Even those within the scheme are finding their rights to benefit in practice are limited not by the fact of marriage per se ( as in the 1930s ) , but by their caring responsibilities . |
| 7 | In the period following the execution of the Demoiselles Picasso 's art was informed by two main principles or types of tribal art , the one flatter , more abstract and remote from European art , in which the basic planes of the face are differentiated not by relief but by the directions of the striations or hatchings with which they are covered , the other more solid , sculptural , three-dimensional and naturalistic . |
| 8 | Here , powers are devolved not by reference to a particular geographical area , but by reference to a particular function or service , such as transport or telecommunications . |
| 9 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 10 | They are designed not for experimentation but for implementation . |
| 11 | In some birds , females are attracted not by the quality of a male 's territory , but by the male himself . |
| 12 | Although CD-ROMs look much like CD audio discs , they are encoded not with music but information which can be read and displayed by a computer . |
| 13 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 14 | These taxes are levied not on particular households or firms but on the goods they buy or sell . |
| 15 | Toward the centre of a rich globular cluster the stars are separated not by light-years , but only by light-weeks or even light-days . |
| 16 | They are seen not as the victims of social problems but as those who contribute to their own victimisation by their irresolution or fatalism or apathy . |
| 17 | Our claims to knowledge are legitimised not by their origins … but rather by the norms and rules of inquiry itself . |
| 18 | Bonfires are built not in people 's backyards but on the streets outside their doors . |
| 19 | We are Disabled not by impairment but by a range of discriminatory practices which remove or restrict our abilities and limit our opportunities . |
| 20 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 21 | The very best quality bags are made not with single large pieces of fabric for each side of the shell but in smaller strips sewing shell and baffle together . |
| 22 | In unmodernised buildings the windows are made not with glass , but with translucent shells from the freshwater oyster . |
| 23 | In this , goods are made not in continuous runs but in bursts of , for instance , 20 components at a time . |
| 24 | Computer books ( and , indeed , a vast number of other books on management ) are bought not by individuals but by companies , who can declare such purchases as legitimate expenses , with all that the term implies tax-wise . |
| 25 | A substantial proportion of the goods and services which are purchased are bought not by private individuals and private businesses but by governments ( central , regional and local ) and by public enterprises , that is , nationalized industries . |
| 26 | We are told not to ‘ waste time ’ in our inner world when we should be paying attention to the Russian Revolution or the wildlife of Tasmania . |
| 27 | But predictive judgments about ability to comply are founded not upon some dispassionate analysis of economic facts and figures so much as upon characterizations of a discharger 's know-how and willingness to comply , derived from his occupation , size , experience , and reputation . |
| 28 | The genes in question seem to be very similar in prokaryotes which in other respects are not very alike , and which are thought not to be closely related . |
| 29 | His parallels are drawn not from primates , but from his own work on the advertising art of New Guinea bowerbirds , and the handicap of being a male bird of paradise with a three-foot tail . |
| 30 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |