Example sentences of "[det] [be] [not/n't] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 2 | The proper reply to this is not that the truth of a view , strictly speaking , is independent of the motivations of those who hold it , although that is so . |
| 3 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 4 | a letter from a grant awarding body ( e.g. education and library board , local education authority ) stating that it will pay your fees ( if this is not provided you will be responsible for the payment of your fees ) ; |
| 5 | a letter from a grant awarding body or your employer , stating that fees will be paid on your behalf ( if this is not provided you will be responsible for the payment of your fees ) ; |
| 6 | This is not because of xenophobia , still less ‘ racism ’ ; prudence is the principal consideration . |
| 7 | But , explained John Gapper , the secretary of the Labour and Industrial Correspondents Group : ‘ His office says this is not because he does not like us ’ . |
| 8 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 9 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 10 | But this is not because she has suddenly decided to espouse the hereditary principle . |
| 11 | Majorese can sometimes be almost equally hard to follow ; but this is not because it is deceptive . |
| 12 | This is not because Miss Jackson 's presence in the Commons will ensure that Labour never forms the Government , but because Mr Letwin is one of the people credited with having invented the poll tax . |
| 13 | This is not because the law does violate human rights . |
| 14 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 15 | This is not because such explanations are ‘ wrong ’ , but because they are incomplete or inadequate . |
| 16 | This is not because the necessary legal result could not have been achieved using a legacy , but presumably because the composite wording creates a presumption that a trust was intended . |
| 17 | This is not because of any sudden blinding scientific revelation proving that lead — added to petrol to make cars ' engines run more smoothly — dissolves children 's brains . |
| 18 | This is not because of the often quoted ‘ collection of mulm at the front so that it can be syphoned off ’ which simply does n't happen in a properly run undergravel filtered tank . |
| 19 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 20 | This is not because Nature is too incompetent to glue them together properly but because , properly contrived , the weak interfaces strengthen the material and make it tough . |
| 21 | This is not because young women are status conscious . |
| 22 | This is not because she is unpopular . |
| 23 | This is not because tax rates are being raised : on the contrary , they are being lowered . |
| 24 | This is not because they are immediately transferable to this country but because they illustrate particular features of transition . |
| 25 | This is not because of any dramatic differentiation between rich and poor within a given village : the great majority remained ‘ middle ’ peasants directly dependent on their own labour for their livelihood . |
| 26 | Stopping only to emphasize that this is not because we belong to different disciplines and that several other final positions are open to anyone from either discipline , we then leave readers to make up their own minds , or else to decide that there is no monopoly of wisdom to be had . |
| 27 | This is not because the family had become less powerful . |
| 28 | While more REM sleep is taken than on control nights in absolute terms , this is not because of any increase in REM sleep as a percentage of total sleep . |
| 29 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 30 | This is not because PC k is valid , particularly . |