Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the car engine is on or it is not . |
| 2 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 3 | So although it is not as good as the inner routes it is nevertheless an extremely robust scheme in the department of transports terms . |
| 4 | We race constantly so it is not surprising that 90 per cent of accidents are caused by excess speed . ’ |
| 5 | it , you know , it does have , it does have Government , Government support , so that it is n't , we 're not trying to do anything which erm , the Government is n't supporting as well . |
| 6 | Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes . |
| 7 | I will write again as soon as Ferdinando hears he is to go and when I do you must prepare Oreste for the change Ellen so that it is not sprung on him . |
| 8 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 9 | All clothing is chosen in slightly larger sizes than normal , so that it is not too tight , and it is easier to slip on . |
| 10 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 11 | Is my back arched so that it is not fully in contact with the ground ? |
| 12 | At a meal have a glass of water as well as wine and keep sipping at the water so that it is not your wine glass which is being constantly refilled . |
| 13 | In this conclusion nothing is explained ; all that is provided is a terminology ( the distinction between the body-as-it-is-for-me or body qua sensitive ; and the body-in-the-midst-of-the-world or body qua sensible ) which makes it possible to state the ‘ natural ’ answer unambiguously and so that it is not open to logical difficulties . |
| 14 | A change in status may occur without a change of version ( since the text itself is unaltered ) , and represents an investment of editorial labour which should be recorded so that it is not needlessly repeated e.g. after database recovery due to media failure . |
| 15 | The magnitude is 0.4 , so that it is not greatly inferior to Rigel . |
| 16 | Water lying in pipes can change in character and pick up metals such as copper or lead , so that it is not representative of the bulk supply . |
| 17 | Leaving aside the political implications , the circumstance that the money was paid under the sentence of a court , albeit one that was held to have no jurisdiction , gives the case a flavour of duress , so that it is not a significant authority in Woolwich 's favour . |
| 18 | But despite this general rule Parliament can if it wishes confine a decision on a question of law to a particular inferior court and provide that the decision shall be final so that it is not to be challenged either by appeal or by judicial review . |
| 19 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |
| 20 | This course should be adopted only in case of absolute necessity , and you should be able to plan out your time so that it is not necessary . |
| 21 | with good acidity so that it is not too blowsy , which can be a fault with some Australian Chardonnays . |
| 22 | There is an early retirement pension , a late retirement pension , an ill-health retirement pension and , perhaps more important , an in-built provision for index linking so that it is not simply a straightforward sum each year . |
| 23 | differentiate its broad product range in some way so that it is not competing directly with lower-cost products , or |
| 24 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
| 25 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 26 | Sometimes the mirroring may comprise only the note-order , or ( conversely ) the rhythmic structure set to different notes , so that it is not strictly speaking a palindrome . |
| 27 | The astrophysics of such events is complicated , so that it is not possible to give more than limits on the parameters of the gravitational radiation to be expected . |
| 28 | You will also want to place it so that it is not unsightly . |
| 29 | Cawkell 's study related to acoustics , but Price 's work does not refer directly to any particular subject field , so that it is not possible to be sure that like is being compared with like . |
| 30 | This will be the case quite regularly so that it is not in the least surprising if in many instances general expectations have crystallized into rigid habits ( which might be called syntactic " rules " ) governing the possibilities open to an adjective as a type item , irrespective of the facts of any particular token occasion . |