Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ?
2 A clearer view exists of what services are not than of any positive identification of their characteristics .
3 This is something for which surveys , including that of Greeley and Rossi , are not and can not be intended .
4 Forster observed in 1874 , ‘ the only belief much felt is that we are not and will not be papists . ’
5 ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things .
6 But the 1990s are not and , since 1989 , the number of new horses being trained to race has been falling steadily .
7 It is also known that there are people in mental handicap hospitals who are not and have never been mentally handicapped .
8 The primary thrust of the Convention is to ensure that human rights are respected in the domestic laws of states parties or , to the extent that they are not and that breaches occur , that such breaches should be remedied by the state in question .
9 Although many accountants are like you , other people are not and they see you as procrastinating , irritating and time wasting .
10 Poulantzas claims that they are not and introduces , as a second source of variation , the class struggle .
11 But the GMC has not been given the power to set out which treatments are ‘ scientifically validated ’ and therefore permissible and those that are not and therefore forbidden .
12 If giving or withholding this responsibility were possible options in a one-person game , then this criterion would do nothing to counter the charge of arbitrariness but I have already argued that they are not and could not be .
13 well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year
14 It has a vested interest in brainwashing people into believing that they are happy , when in fact they are not and could not possibly be .
15 In reality , they are not and the camera is lying .
16 The liabilities of NBFls are not and so we plainly can not use that argument here .
17 In contrast to those modern theorists discussed elsewhere in this book , who have insisted that the literary text is in a significant sense independent of its author , and that the author 's and reader s experiences are not and should not be the same , Richards treats the text simply as a transparent medium , a mere vehicle for conveying the experience of the author to the reader .
18 I also want the rights to all other churches in the Lothians , now existing and to be established , which are not and have never been in the past dedicated to the shrine of St Cuthbert .
19 Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros .
20 The wood of the World War One aircraft is thrashed but the fittings are not and they can be rebuilt .
21 Because you know dam well that those people , the ones that are not and are making the fuss are probably the ones that lead , need the money least .
22 Below these slopes , north of the village and on various plots scattered throughout the commune , the vines are not as well sited , but they provide wines outshining other premiers crus .
23 Furthermore , women are not as isolated from each other as they are in the world of the 1980s .
24 Ought it also to include those forms of deaths , injuries , and economic deprivations which are not as yet covered by criminal , administrative , or civil law , even though they are violations of ‘ human rights ’ ( Schwendinger and Schwendinger 1975 ) .
25 Basically the thing is not working as it should , the outputs are not as they should be so he will probably begin by checking that the inputs are present , that is the electric power or fuel or other materials are available .
26 Irony is perhaps too harsh a word for an incongruous and humorous awareness that things are not as they seem , for either of these characters .
27 This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight .
28 The savories are not as well known as the majority of culinary herbs , but they should be used as often as marjoram or basil are , as they have their own distinctive , spicy , warming flavour to add to many dishes .
29 " They are not as we were , " he said .
30 Our residents occupying rooms are not as well integrated in the community as those who share .
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