Example sentences of "are not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Merlins are not infrequently recorded along the Downs and are seen very occasionally further inland . |
| 2 | Black students , for example , are not infrequently humiliated with jokes . |
| 3 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 4 | They are not automatically exempt from criticism and occasional ridicule , however . |
| 5 | I now know that they are not automatically exempt from prescription charges , and I draw my hon. Friend the Minister 's attention to the recommendation of the Parkinson 's Disease Society of the United Kingdom , which I support , that sufferers should be exempt from prescription charges . |
| 6 | The Association blames the fact that incinerators are not automatically checked by the Pollution Inspectorate or local environmental health officers . |
| 7 | ( wages for housework ) would take us further away from a society in which childcare was integrated with the rest of life , and in which women are not automatically banished from all decision making about how our lives are run … |
| 8 | ‘ We are not automatically recognised in the market-place as innovative and technically oriented , and this belies our actual achievements , ’ he says . |
| 9 | When modules are entered into LIFESPAN , they are not automatically deleted from the user 's account . |
| 10 | First , on a point of detail , people are not automatically entitled to six months ' social security . |
| 11 | In our discussion in Chapter 1 about economy , efficiency and effectiveness , the technical problem was how we can meaningfully compare inputs and outputs to produce a measure of efficiency when outputs are not automatically valued by the market price . |
| 12 | The cognitive obstacles faced in the investigation of crime are not openly discussed in our system of criminal justice , let alone solved . |
| 13 | MORRISSEY is to play a pre-Christmas gig in Paris and , in response to recent criticisms ( not least in these pages ) , special schemes are being put in place to ensure fans are not again inconvenienced by a last-minute cancellation . |
| 14 | It is in this context that minorities who may feel that their causes are not adequately represented in Parliament wish to use their freedom of protest to draw attention to their plight . |
| 15 | ‘ We are especially keen to attract young people and women as they are not adequately represented within the Society , although we have members from 19 to 92 ’ . |
| 16 | On the other hand , they provide no support for the pipework which can cause the cistern to split or make the plumbing noisy if the pipes are not adequately supported in some other way . |
| 17 | Because of their belief that women 's concerns and activities are not adequately covered in the mainstream media , women 's groups have produced their own alternative magazines , radio , TV and A/V programmes , and have even started their own press services . |
| 18 | There may well be gender differences in attitudes to paid work , but these are not adequately demonstrated by the reiteration of the old adage that women 's primary role is a family one . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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% ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Underlying their actions and understandings are , as we suggested in Chapter 1 , relations which are not adequately captured by most Marxist commentators . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If items are not immediately preceded by a printable prompt string ( even if null ) then a " ? " will be printed as a prompt . |
| 27 | Each of the words in the sentence will be recognised , but they are not easily integrated into an underlying meaning . |
| 28 | As with any legal document , a record contract contains clauses and phrases which are not easily understood by the layman . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |