Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive . |
| 2 | Even the presence of a substantial Korean minority has done little to weaken a sense of identity whose strength is indicated by the virtual denial of Japanese nationality to those who are not racially Japanese . |
| 3 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 4 | Again , as all viewers of the BBC 's television comedy Yes , Minister are aware , the state bureaucracies and their members have their own organizational and personal interests to pursue which are often at variance with those of their supposed political masters , which in turn are not invariably identical with those of the electorate or of any coalition of interest groups . |
| 5 | Besides , sample results are not instantly available , but take at least two or three weeks , sometimes longer , to come through from the agency 's laboratories . |
| 6 | The work is presently in operation to the Opera House side of the harbour basin , near Bennelong Point , which means that the standard photographs in daylight — across the water from the tourists boats , or from the bridge walkway at Campell 's Cove , are not commercially viable . |
| 7 | The work is presently in operation to the Opera House side of the harbour basin , near Bennelong Point , which means that the standard photographs in daylight — across the water from the tourist boats , or from the bridge walkway at Campell 's Cove , are not commercially viable . |
| 8 | The BBC Research Department have built FM receivers with ferrite-rod antennas , and published reports on them , but the fact that such receivers are not commercially available , strongly suggest that any technical advantages ( if any ) do not justify the extra cost . |
| 9 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 10 | But they are not automatically right about everything . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that random changes are not automatically beneficial , but the direction towards improvement comes from natural selection ; i.e. from genetic changes that were an aid to survival . |
| 12 | Groups of women working or socializing together are not automatically separatist . |
| 13 | Qualifications obtained some years previously are not automatically acceptable , and applicants are strongly advised to seek advice from the relevant faculty office before applying . |
| 14 | ‘ He and I are always spending time together but we are not romantically inclined , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The two approaches , therefore , are not hermetically sealed units , impenetrable to each other . |
| 16 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | The current project will extend previous work by presenting the homograph primes so briefly that the subjects are not consciously aware of them . |
| 18 | The service sector is not affected by the ERM , because the services are not internationally competitive . |
| 19 | The contextual mechanism that allegedly converts horse in 16a into a temporary synonym of mare is equally operative in 17a ; but in spite of this , 17a and b are not logically equivalent , and their lack of equivalence is entirely due to residual semantic differences between horse and mare . |
| 20 | Existential propositions , contextually indispensable though they might be , are not logically essential for a complete description of the world . |
| 21 | ( a ) First , notice that explicit part-word instructions are not logically necessary . |
| 22 | Inductive arguments are not logically valid arguments . |
| 23 | The two situations are not logically comparable , since in the physical world , each nuclide which disintegrates is permanently lost from the sample , whereas in the case of documents , the original collection does not decrease when an element is sampled by citation . |
| 24 | The Spanish lines in ‘ Should I Stay Or Should I Go ’ and ‘ Spanish Bombs ’ are not grammatically correct . |
| 25 | Something which seems to be soluble at some stage and the water gets hot and it 's not soluble , so we 're looking for things here that are not not soluble . |
| 26 | Some are not not funny . |
| 27 | For members of socially subordinate groups , subordination remains salient even though superordinates are not immediately present . |
| 28 | It has to be admitted that signs of an internal common culture , of a shared unity of purpose , and of a common means of communication are not immediately apparent . |
| 29 | But these problems are not immediately apparent , and so need not inhibit accumulation for some time . |
| 30 | Others with walking limitations are not immediately identifiable , such as stroke or epilepsy victims , those with circulatory defects , or the drug- or alcohol-dependent . |