Example sentences of "[verb] [be] not [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of the film-makers we met are not so sure . |
| 2 | Even failures to replicate are not very interesting to the journals ; experiments with negative results therefore rarely get reported . |
| 3 | For companies , the private work-out is better — as long as the claims that have to be reorganised are not too complicated . |
| 4 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 5 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 6 | Winter-lets are not intrinsically bad , but they are ‘ symptoms rather than causes of insecure housing , chiefly because many authorities ignore the needs of people who have to resort to them for want of a better choice … . ’ |
| 7 | Now you 've got I mean the autostradas that they build are n't as good as , as , nowhere near as good as the autobahns in er in Germany and through th you know , Switzerland and that . |
| 8 | In the preliminary version , however , many of the options these tools provide are not fully automated . |
| 9 | Those which were dropped were not necessarily false . |
| 10 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
| 11 | The policies pursued were not always pleasing to Washington , and showed that the British could have a mind of their own . |
| 12 | In terms of the industrial relations context , the relationships found were not always those expected . |
| 13 | Answer guide : No entry is required as the earnings process is not substantially complete . |
| 14 | he 's getting excited too , but do you know is n't that strange he , he came to get a paper you see for the family |
| 15 | What people say is not necessarily concise , direct factual or precise , but a message gets through . |
| 16 | However , the gradient depicted is not particularly different from that defined for northern Germany accepting that the relative displacement from Teichmüller 's curve can be attributed to uplift and erosion . |
| 17 | If one asks why the law should draw the line at threats of breach of contract and not include within the tort of intimidation some threats against B even though the acts threatened are not strictly unlawful , the answer can lie only in the structure of the law . |
| 18 | I mean most of the drivers I 've seen are n't that attractive ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Having said that , fines imposed are not as strong a deterrent as they should be . |
| 20 | The Bank admonishes the blimpish directors of British companies , 75 per cent of whom , in a recent survey , said that the pay settlements they had conceded were not too high . |
| 21 | To those who remain unpersuaded , there is this to say : that , in response to that recent survey , three-quarters of the directors questioned did after all consider that the pay settlements they had conceded were not too high . |
| 22 | This means that the essential choices are left open ; above all , it means that what has already been done is not yet irrevocable . |
| 23 | What needs to be done is not as hard to conceive of as is sometimes suggested . |
| 24 | Whether or not the fruits of such a hybrid could be commercially exploited is not yet clear , however MacDonald and Wimpey feel that they are on to something very exciting . |
| 25 | " What the Imperial Delegate says is not strictly true . " |
| 26 | Winix America , a Beaverton , Oregon start-up , is ready to ship Winix Network 1.2 , modular networking software it says is not only compatible with both Windows 3 . |
| 27 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 28 | Whereas ‘ the true self , in sex , would seek a meeting , would seek to meet the other ’ , this being the ‘ true flow ’ , sexuality today is merely greedy , blind , selfseeking , and ‘ therefore , since the thing sought is the same , the self , the mode of seeking is not very important . |
| 29 | Yet , first , that outcome of specialization which is an assumed general division between those who create and perform and those who merely receive is not significantly greater at this level of material techniques than at the level of systems of training of inherent resources . |
| 30 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |