Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is increasing evidence that wedge-like features of a number of dinucleotides are not adequately described by these simple models ( 3,8,9,15,29 ) . |
| 32 | Problems ( again not attributable to readers ) were also caused by items which are not adequately identified by the pressmark supplied in their catalogue entry ( 9% ) , and by serials , of which the location of a particular issue may not be evident from information available in the Issue Hall ( 6% ) , while the sending of call-slips to an inappropriate part of the Library also caused some delay ( 4% ) . |
| 33 | The section on hardware hazards , instrumentation , reliability of process equipment , maintenance , commissioning , permits to work , training , management of safety etc , covers topics that are not adequately dealt with elsewhere and the author shows that this is where his expertise lies . |
| 34 | Underlying their actions and understandings are , as we suggested in Chapter 1 , relations which are not adequately captured by most Marxist commentators . |
| 35 | They have complained , above all , that they are not adequately reported by the federally owned media during or after the monthly meetings which they have held regularly since coming to power in October 1979 . |
| 36 | The influence of Kant 's aesthetic theory on the forgoing of immediate pleasure is clear and explicit ; Simmel states that ‘ We desire objects only if they are not immediately given to us for our use and enjoyment ; that is , to the extent that they resist our desire ’ ( 1978 : 66 ) . |
| 37 | Lastly , the sub-district or neighbourhood network comprises connections to buildings that are not immediately connected to the district or city network , together with typical neighbourhood links . |
| 38 | If items are not immediately preceded by a printable prompt string ( even if null ) then a " ? " will be printed as a prompt . |
| 39 | Each of the words in the sentence will be recognised , but they are not easily integrated into an underlying meaning . |
| 40 | As with any legal document , a record contract contains clauses and phrases which are not easily understood by the layman . |
| 41 | We are concerned with people , some of whom are men and some women , and the cognitive differences between them are not easily traced to their gender . |
| 42 | Moreover this form of regulation is closely associated with the emergence of new institutional machinery such as quangos , and regulatory agencies , which are not easily assimilated into orthodox public law concepts . |
| 43 | Departments , moreover , are not easily moved in new directions by the outsiders that presidents set over them . |
| 44 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 45 | The bank machines were situated too high in the wall , so are not easily operated from a wheelchair ( many of the instructions were not visible ) . |
| 46 | This is important in practice because there are elements of traditional financial reports of governments that are not easily rationalized in terms of explicit users and their needs . |
| 47 | It is important to note that , in any given society , mating patterns are not easily manipulated by policy and edicts , but change in response to education , socio-cultural processes and aspects of development . |
| 48 | The confused events of the 450s and 460s are not easily squared with the literary image of the period purveyed by Sidonius . |
| 49 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 50 | They can have maturity dates of anything up to 189 days , and of course by their nature are not easily controlled by suppliers . |
| 51 | In more complex animals , consistencies are not easily found on the surface and many of us feel the need to postulate structural regularity beneath the surface if we are to make sense of what we see . |
| 52 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |
| 53 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 54 | Running through much of the public debate on voluntary organisations , and not entirely absent from the Wolfenden Report , is the confusion between a non-statutory organisation that provides services and can have significant or even total support from state funds , and the notion of voluntary donations of time or money , which are not exclusively given to non-statutory bodies . |
| 55 | This suggests that there are many language structures that are not exclusively attached to any one domain , and that the only way to provide a collocation dictionary that is sufficiently flexible and comprehensive is to process as large and varied a corpus as possible . |
| 56 | However , because they are ‘ heads of households ’ , lone mothers do show up more readily in the statistics ( that is , when they are not partially hidden in the category of ‘ lone parent ’ ) . |
| 57 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 58 | The consequences of this disparity are not completely offset by the greater efficiency of the NHS . |
| 59 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 60 | It is as if such mimicry rips the word away from its object , disunifies the two , shows that a given straightforward generic word — epic or tragic — is one-sided , bounded , incapable of exhausting the object ; the process of parodying forces us to experience those sides of the object that are not otherwise included in a given genre or a given style . |