Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [be] [not/n't] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I shall be arguing is that this is not simply because the kids are so difficult , nor because teachers are intrinsically powder-kegs of suppressed rage , but because the way most decent people view the world — their implicit personal philosophy if you like — breaks down when pushed to the limit and delivers misguided answers to difficult questions . |
| 2 | Patrick Forbes is the first to point out that this is not so and that the title is just a brand name , but the confusion still persists . |
| 3 | Rolt warns that this is not so because that spirit can only express itself in creative activities in which work and leisure are facets of one whole . |
| 4 | However , in his researches , Professor Mark Rosenzweig was able to prove that this was not so and that , given sufficient stimulation , the brain can actually develop at any age . |
| 5 | And that 's not just because you 're no great beauty . ’ |
| 6 | Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about . |
| 7 | Well there 's a quite a bit of difference between five and fifty is n't there and the one thing is for your educational needs and the other I 'm so convinced about . |
| 8 | Now erm I suppose more recently coming up the present , coming away from nineteenth century Vienna into erm I suppose really I suppose the nineteen seventies , nineteen eighties , people became much more interested in the issue of child sex abuse again and this was n't really because of any great developments in clinical psychology or psychiatry . |
| 9 | And this was not simply because she wished to be above reproach : it was also because , nearing her time , she found the eight-year-old boy exhausting . |
| 10 | but that 's not just because somebody was away for their dinner , it 's , if that person was back from their dinner |
| 11 | But that 's not all because all the books we offer will be cheaper than the publishers ' prices — with savings of up to 40% off the books we offer you . |
| 12 | But that 's not there because of various actions by the European Community . |
| 13 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 14 | A man who keeps pigs too near his neighbour 's house commits a nuisance , but that is not solely because they are pigs . |
| 15 | But that was not enough when it came to the Maastricht debate . |
| 16 | An agreement to induce a breach of contract might be thought to fall outside this protection because inducement is a tort if committed by one person , but this is not so if the inducement is protected by section 13(1) . |
| 17 | But this is not absolutely or finally convincing … ’ |
| 18 | But this was not simply because Mary was sent to France . |
| 19 | Democracy involves debate and discussion , but these are not enough if they remain inconclusive and ineffective in determining actual policies . |
| 20 | But all is not quite as it appears . |
| 21 | There are occasions , however , when this is not so as some noxious or offensive gases have very low threshold detection values , e.g. many of those malodorants associated with sewage treatment processes which include gases such as methyl mercaptan , ethyl mercaptan and dimethylamine . |