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

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1 a Policy In general , psychogeriatric services aim to cater primarily for dementing patients who have behavioural or psychological problems ; geriatric services for those who are physically frail , whether their frailty is due to dementia or not ( Arie and Jolly , 1982 , ) .
2 It is popular with slimmers but not much good in cooking . )
3 In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible .
4 That is , she is exempt from supervision but not wholly free to choose her own activities .
5 The ‘ tax timing option ’ is available for shares but not futures in the USA and UK .
6 There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’
7 The question is one of degree and not of kind , for , were Christianity not to some extent shaped by those cultures in which it existed , it would not speak a language understood by the majority of those whom it addressed .
8 If you are being honest with yourself and with her and you really are terribly pressed for time , you will never be short of concrete reasons to give , and she will find these much more acceptable and less hurtful than vague excuses , provided , of course , that your overall treatment of her is one of care and not neglect .
9 Sammut wo n't be drawn into a debate as to whether Michelin is fair to women or not .
10 But he is open to God and not afraid to follow what God says .
11 With the carbon fibres running unidirectional end to end , this tube is crushable under pressure but not of any order likely to arise in kiting .
12 We hear of the sexual revolution which is supposed to have happened sometime in the 1960s and liberated women from the constraints of Victorian ideology with its oppressive double standard in which non-marital sex is alright for men and not for women .
13 Learn to look for what is positive in others and not for what is negative .
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