Example sentences of "[is] not [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 2 | It is like a square , with all sides equal , but each angle is not 900 . |
| 3 | Half nine is not four , because … |
| 4 | In particular , Piaget claims that young children tend to give psychological explanations — known as psychologizing — for physical and logical phenomena , such as : 6 Half nine is not four , because he ca n't count . |
| 5 | A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company . |
| 6 | For example , the ‘ EEC recommended air lead limit … ’ is not 1.5 but 2 micrograms/cu.m , and the suggestion that the air in British cities is ‘ statutorily unfit to breath ’ is incorrect . |
| 7 | That again is not sixty per cent of those again I would suggest that that part of the report is misleading . |
| 8 | ‘ Making plutonium is not 100 per cent safe , ’ he added . |
| 9 | ‘ But there is no question of us risking him against Forest if he is not 100 per cent fit . |
| 10 | However , the fact that the figure for identical twins is not 100 per cent makes it clear that schizophrenia is not a simple inherited metabolic disorder . |
| 11 | If your customer becomes insolvent or for some other claimable reason does n't pay , what your insurance company settles with you when you claim is not 100 per cent of your loss but usually more like 80 per cent — the balance of the loss is still yours . |
| 12 | This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation . |
| 13 | Novello Allegro 's participation was also in doubt because of the ground , but Meade added that the horse is not 100 per cent . |
| 14 | The correct distance below the inferior border of the patella is not 5 cm but 3 cun , which corresponds to the width of the patient 's four fingers . |
| 15 | I have since discovered that that figure is not 10 million tonnes but 17 million tonnes . |
| 16 | Thus in the case of job H the early start time is not 10 , which is the early finish time of preceding job G , but 15 which is the early finish of F and is on the critical path . |
| 17 | Thus in the case of job H the early start time is not 10 , which is the early finish time of preceding job G , but 15 which is the early finish of F and is on the critical path . |
| 18 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
| 19 | In truth , there is not one cultural text , but a multiplicity of them , both concentric and overlapping . |
| 20 | Manifestly he is not one of the ignorant . |
| 21 | But looked at from a Roman point of view , the papacy is not one system of Church government among others . |
| 22 | ‘ I still kind of do n't believe it , ’ Cale mumbles into his sleeve , although modesty is not one of his foremost traits ; frankness , bravery and literacy are . |
| 23 | There are many reasons why , sadly , too many of our youngsters still leave school without the skills of literacy and numeracy , but comprehensive reorganisation is not one of them . |
| 24 | A lot depends on your opponent and the surface , but his volley is not one of the best . ’ |
| 25 | It is not one of the book 's better strokes , since their discourse makes the opening stages drag a little . |
| 26 | The Laser project , as it is known , has its supporters in the government though Mr Chirac is not one of them . |
| 27 | If it does not react like this , it is not one of the sorts of society that survive . |
| 28 | Sir Adrian Cadbury is not one of those who subscribes to the popular theory that a truly professional manager can take over the helm of any type of business with only a superficial knowledge of the nuts and bolts . |
| 29 | This is not one of his solitary pursuits , however . |
| 30 | The giving dynamic is not one of patronage but ‘ as a matter of equality . ’ |