Example sentences of "so is [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the human eye is extraordinarily good at doing this , the process by which it does so is not well understood and hence can be only imperfectly imitated . |
| 2 | Any increase in price per person payable as a result of a part cancellation is not a Cancellation Charge and so is not covered by Norwich Union Insurance . |
| 3 | What makes it so is not so much the iniquitous voting system which put in power a government that commands the support of only 42 percent of the electorate ( significantly less , taking into account abstentions and spoiled votes ) ) . |
| 4 | Why this should be so is not clear . |
| 5 | Someone of great influence in Britain must have exercised it on his behalf but who did so is not known . |
| 6 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 7 | DOWNING Street insists that President-elect Bill Clinton is not angry with the British Government and so is not snubbing John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 8 | The £8,000 is a past cost and so is not relevant to the decision . |
| 9 | The rock has to be mined and then thrown away , so is not held in very high esteem . |
| 10 | So is not smoking or drinking at night . |
| 11 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 12 | There have also been suggestions that local heroin ‘ epidemics ’ recur at intervals of 15–20 years , though why this should be so is not clear . |
| 13 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |
| 14 | In the case of the police car , my belief fails to track the truth in both ways , and so is not knowledge . |
| 15 | If he chooses to give way and pay , rather than obtain the decision of the court on the question whether the money is due , his payment is regarded as voluntary and so is not recoverable : see e.g. , William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 . |
| 16 | ‘ S'pose so is not quite good enough . |
| 17 | ESPRIT has not yet reached a Common Position and so is not among the five ; however , it is extremely likely that its timetable will also be affected . |
| 18 | Nylon is damaged by sunlight so is not the best fabric to use for curtains . |
| 19 | In general , areas of tabular relief seem best suited to the preservation , if not to the formation , of incised meanders , e.g. the Mesozoic areas of the Paris Basin and the lower Wye gorge , although why this should be so is not certain . |
| 20 | But yet , the steady increase in the divorce rate over the last fifteen years or so is not the simple consequence of attending women 's studies classes . |
| 21 | And so is not theirs to give away at all . |
| 22 | Although governments may attempt to avoid these problems by framing legislation more specifically , the cost of doing so is not only greater complexity but also less adaptability , both for coping with new situations and for unforeseen cases . |
| 23 | The replacement , voted against by Opposition MPs but passed because of the Government majority , does not , however , allow the penalties to be imposed against electricity suppliers which fail to promote electricity efficiency , and so is not as strong as the Lords ' amendment . |
| 24 | This is because in the first case the interest earned at the end of the first month can be reinvested in the second month ; in the second case , the whole interest does not accrue until the end of the second month and so is not available for reinvestment until then . |
| 25 | That this should be so is not simply a matter of cognitive theory choice , but also a matter of the economic , political and culturalideological interests of theoreticians and practical actors in rich and poor countries . |
| 26 | However , this is a one-dimensional spectrum with respect to the component of the wave number in the mean flow direction , and so is not in general a complete determination of the spectral characteristics or of E(k) . |
| 27 | That this should be so is not surprising . |
| 28 | That this should be so is not surprising . |
| 29 | That this should be so is not surprising , given changes in employment and demographic patterns . |
| 30 | So is n't there anybody you want to go and see ? ’ |