Example sentences of "[verb] are not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of the film-makers we met are not so sure . |
| 2 | Even between technical peers as in a design team there can be difficulties in communication because the models which individuals are using are not identical . |
| 3 | National data about the amount of care received are not available . |
| 4 | ( a ) Contents of the Register Established under the Land Charges Act 1925 , this is of importance to every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of any property in England and Wales , because the matters registered are not referred to in either the Registers of registered land nor in the Central Land Charges Register . |
| 5 | There were some quite sharp interchanges which unfortunately are still there in the literature and I fear are not doing an awful lot of good . |
| 6 | Ideally the pressure groups formed are not to be organized functionally around ‘ clienthood ’ or ‘ patienthood ’ but around identification of interests which consumers in general feel to be appropriate . |
| 7 | The metabolic pathways through which chitin is formed are not fully established but enzymatic synthesis of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine from glucose has been demonstrated by Candy and Kilby ( 1962 ) and there is evidence for polymerization under the control of a chitin synthetase . |
| 8 | The figures to which the hon. Gentleman refers are not those proposed by the Government but those which the Housing Executive says that it could spend . |
| 9 | The Minister has referred to what he described as administrative matters that he thinks are not amenable to legislation . |
| 10 | Even failures to replicate are not very interesting to the journals ; experiments with negative results therefore rarely get reported . |
| 11 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 12 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 13 | Unless we can think about truth and reference from the standpoint of transcendental reflection — unless we have substantive conceptions of those notions — the questions we raise are not intelligible . |
| 14 | If you get one , you know the nuts you 're eating are not from California , for the Californians grow exclusively sweet almonds . |
| 15 | Ironically , the players who exert the most influence are not the worthy professionals nor the solid artisans , it is the daring wingers , the vicious defenders , the arrogant bastards and the uncontrollable wide-boys whose image is remembered by fans . |
| 16 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 17 | increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the |
| 18 | Most employers also take the precaution of stating that the illustrations given are not exhaustive . |
| 19 | The answers given are not the only right answers . |
| 20 | If you are convinced that the grades you have been given are not correct , you can ask for a re-mark or for a re-assessment . |
| 21 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 22 | The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty . |
| 23 | If , as HM Inspectorate argue , the recommendations they make are not binding upon the LEA then this may represent an acceptable blend of central and local control . |
| 24 | The sounds they make are not the same as words . |
| 25 | Communication and the wish to communicate are not closely related . |
| 26 | In this chapter , I shall argue that Simmel 's assertion that his analysis is one of modernity rather than solely of capitalism should be taken seriously , and that the contradictions in modernity which he analysed are not resolvable through Marxist conceptions of a future society , but are dilemmas which have to be investigated as integral aspects of modern life . |
| 27 | For companies , the private work-out is better — as long as the claims that have to be reorganised are not too complicated . |
| 28 | There is something shamanistic about New Historicist writing : the critic as one who is able to uncover energies within Renaissance writing not immediately apparent to the reader but whose tribal secrets of how such energies are located are not readily revealed . |
| 29 | As all these craft are not to exceed 16 feet 6 inches no cover is given whilst the craft is in international waters . |
| 30 | It should be noted that , while maiming or wounding are not justifiable for simple recaption of property , yet they may well become justifiable for another reason — self-defence . |