Example sentences of "is [that] [pron] [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 2 | The answer is that we do not intend to meet all that shortfall . |
| 3 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |
| 4 | Our main concern as a group is that we do not waste the money . |
| 5 | Our problem is that we do not understand how officials can know whether a claim is frivolous until they have looked at it . |
| 6 | The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work . |
| 7 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 8 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 9 | The difficulty with these two studies , unfortunately , is that we do not know how many patients ended up with a definite myocardial infarction ; an initial electrocardiogram only was used . |
| 10 | The truth of the matter is that we do not know how — in any meaningful , scientific , experimentally demonstrable sense — advertising works . |
| 11 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 12 | ‘ The point is that we do not need any further research to resolve the policy issues . |
| 13 | The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial . |
| 14 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 15 | A further gain is that we do not need a sampling frame for the 10 000 cattle but only for each of the 10 herds ; such a frame could be constructed on the investigator 's arrival at a farm . |
| 16 | The first is that we do not see how states could possibly be regarded as merely one kind of actor among several on the international scene . |
| 17 | ‘ But what is important is that we do not lose these sort of players from our game because of these things . |
| 18 | The answer is that we do not discriminate against anyone , even fax-toting sociopaths like Watson Weeks . |
| 19 | What so often happens is that we do not share feelings till finally the back filter gets overloaded and we literally blow a hole through it sending forth a gush of accusations which are totally counterproductive . |
| 20 | ‘ Our biggest problem is that we do not have an organisation in the country that has a monitoring role for the quality of our soil . ’ |
| 21 | The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) . |
| 22 | This is that we do not have an a priori conception of reality which allows for a range of possible universes , empirical inquiry determining just which of those possibilities is realized . |
| 23 | The first is that we do not have a certain general idea , since often we do not have certain specific ideas . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that we do not have enough evidence to come to a sure conclusion . |
| 25 | I mean what you have to remember is that we have not made a decision about Rockhill Farm . |
| 26 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 27 | modern traffic calming measures however er I believe we have experts on the Council er in these matters but I believe that by narrowing the road and perhaps giving us pavements because one of our problems is that we have not got a continuous pavement through the village , and it is necessary to cross the road four times in some cases to walk from one end to the other . |
| 28 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 29 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 30 | The one thing I do ask all my patients is that they try not to question whether or not the regression is real during the course of the session itself . |