Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [conj] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year there were 316,000 visitors to the sites that we police — and what is heartening is that there was not one single complaint against us , ’ emphasised Hugh . |
| 2 | One outcome of this is that there is not a single national daily or Sunday newspaper which supports any political position further left than the Right of the Labour Party , while the great majority of newspapers not only openly support the Conservative Party but also purvey a range of typically Right-wing attitudes which extend far beyond the relatively narrow confines of purely party politics . |
| 3 | One advantage of this is that it 's not always the most expensive guitars that sound the best . |
| 4 | The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow . |
| 5 | At first , being so aware of ourselves may seem very strange ; this is because we are not used to it . |
| 6 | This is because it is not possible for the home to consider claims for loss , theft or damage to personal belongings . |
| 7 | This is because it is not a consumer deal if the seller does not sell in the course of a business . |
| 8 | This is because it is not clear what we mean by ‘ choice point ’ . |
| 9 | This is because he is not legally entitled to recover the cost incurred by carrying out the repairs necessary to remedy the defect that the surveyor failed to spot . |
| 10 | This is because you are not used to being shackled to the author 's words . |
| 11 | Many unemployed people are actually quite invisible in the sense of one of the things that happens when you 're unemployed is that you 're not actually being taken out of your home environment so much , and unemployed people spend a lot more of their time at home than erm do employed people . |
| 12 | ‘ The strength of Home Alone 2 is that it is not one of those sequels which just tells the same story again . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What makes us different is that we are not concerned with a sector of industry . |
| 14 | ‘ What makes us different is that we are not concerned with a sector of industry . |
| 15 | ‘ The second is that they 're not all beautiful — or not in the way you mean . |
| 16 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 17 | One of the reasons they are often confusing and unsatisfactory is that it is not always totally clear who is interviewing whom . |
| 18 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 19 | The first is that we are not so tempted to think of the word ‘ afternoon ’ as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object , as we are to think of ‘ pain' as having a meaning for us in virtue of being the name of an object . |
| 20 | However , there is one big problem here , and that is that there is not a universal language for horses . |
| 21 | The only problem with that is that it 's not necessarily going to be accepted . |
| 22 | Birchall adds : ‘ The only reason I do n't tuck in like that is because I 'm not double-jointed like Gavin and I 've got a beer gut ! ’ |
| 23 | Could I walk home with you , that is if it 's not too early for you ? ’ |
| 24 | We get smoke from the steel works across the valley , but we know what that is and we 're not afraid of it . ’ |
| 25 | Much more happily she went on : ‘ But that 's because I 'm not as sensible as she is — or as kind , or … . ’ |
| 26 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 27 | That 's if you 're not doing anything else , ’ he added anxiously . |
| 28 | That 's cos you 're not getting |