Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] is not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the target has been badly chosen or perhaps it is not clearly seen . |
| 2 | Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies . |
| 3 | However , Ms Callil says that overall it is not so much a question of bigger profits , as ‘ less loss ’ . |
| 4 | And so it is not easily worn away or eroded . |
| 5 | The workforce has been cut in half to 24,000 and still there is not enough work to go round : some production lines work only a 3-4-day week . |
| 6 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 7 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Nearly 40 years ago these two were trading bullets over the river Potong-Gang , and sometimes it is not far short of hostilities when they trade shots on the pitch . |
| 9 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 10 | If occasionally something is not quite right in your hotel , ask at the hotel reception , politely and firmly , for it to be put right . |
| 11 | But perhaps it is not too simple to suggest that we are also conscious of Zuckerman as a deflection of the wrath over Roth which works by making Zuckerman responsible for the outrage . |
| 12 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |
| 13 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 14 | There is nothing really wrong with them , but then there is not quite enough right about them either . |
| 15 | If it were all as simple as this , and if all fossil bones passed through these stages without modification , this book could finish right here , but unfortunately it is not so . |
| 16 | But as always it is not quite that simple . |