Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [noun] [be] not " in BNC.

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1 This means that any part of an asset 's increased value , from 1982 or its subsequent purchase to its disposal , which is due to inflation is not counted for CGT purposes .
2 What is good for profits is not necessarily good , at least in the short term , for the employees .
3 Fry drew mocking attention to the fact that what is involved in pop is not simply music , but music as articulated through a performer or , rather , through an image of a performer — and if musical meaning is conventional , not natural , so is our sense of pop personality .
4 As Churchland ( 1988 , p. 37 ) has put it , ‘ what is important for mentality is not the matter of which the creature is made , but the structure of the internal activities which that matter contains ’ .
5 It insists that what is important in law is not the fact of command but the end at which that command aims and the way it achieves the end .
6 Such self-indulgence needs to be guarded against what is pleasurable for teachers is not necessarily beneficial to children .
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