Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pers pn] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the average club golfers it is not the right exercise because it emphasises the shoulders too much . |
| 2 | Since a request for a new tenancy must specify a commencement date for the new tenancy not more than twelve months after the service of the notice , this means that at the date when the tenant must serve the break notice he is not in a position to serve a request for a new tenancy . |
| 3 | In view of the universality and range of the interview situation it is not surprising that there has been extensive research , but for the same reasons the research is of little operational consequence . |
| 4 | Within the context of a single equation model it is not possible to distinguish between these various hypotheses . |
| 5 | ( b ) The election campaign It is not necessary for a candidate to have substantial support in order to stand ; all that he needs is the signature of 10 qualified electors . |
| 6 | If the virus from genital warts is examined with the electron microscope it is not morphologically distinguishable from that causing skin warts , but there may be some minor antigenic differences between the two types . |
| 7 | For example , in areas of the South Pacific it is not uncommon for parents to have to relinquish a new baby to admiring kin who have claimed it ( Sahlins 1976b ; Silk 1980 ) . |
| 8 | If Soviet women choose to ignore men 's dinner-time conversation it is not necessarily because they lack education : it may be that these women too have difficulty getting a word in and risk being verbally assaulted by men 's sexism . |
| 9 | Given this array of serious offences committed by the AEC sample it is not surprising that the average number of previous convictions was seven , with only 10 per cent having no previous convictions compared with 28 per cent who had ten or more . |
| 10 | In view of how often overdoses result from relationship problems it is not surprising that the most effective treatment of self-poisoners often occurs in conjoint therapy with the partner or in family therapy . |
| 11 | To give one example of the size of the documentation problem it is not unusual for a large process plant to have two or three hundred volumes of instructions . |
| 12 | Moreover , a point to bear in mind is that for many users of weekly collection credit it is not just one transaction ( with a relatively small money cost , in spite of its high APR ) but is instead virtually continuous indebtedness , with one transaction following closely on the heels of another . |
| 13 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 14 | For a precedent , see Appendix E. It is not thought that this procedure has been invoked with any degree of frequency . |
| 15 | Now that membership is recorded alphabetically on the word processor it is not necessary to have membership numbers . |
| 16 | Because of his working hours he is not giving as much time as he ought perhaps to his family , although he 's always tried to ensure that weekends are devoted to his children . |
| 17 | Due to the high humidity and space requirement it is not an easy plant to grow in the aquarium . |
| 18 | The configuration and deployment of diving bells is defined , but in the air range it is not clear cut and therefore controversial . |
| 19 | Councillor councillor it is not a final information |
| 20 | Eta ( 3.9 ) , in the Y , was ranked as of the second magnitude in ancient times , but as it is an A-type star it is not likely that there has been any real change in it . |
| 21 | With such a concentration of union representation it is not unreasonable to conclude that ‘ Labour unions are so structured and their membership distributed in such a way as to defend the privileges of the elite ’ ( McGown 1980 p.111 ) . |
| 22 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 23 | And now that all the data is on the database , if I want to get that information back it is not a problem . ’ |
| 24 | Line A acquires its specific meaning in the light of line B. It is not so rewarding to ask which terms of A correspond to which terms of B , as to ask whether and in what way line B specifies line A. |
| 25 | " Gapping " refers to the absence of anything equivalent to in line B. It is not clear what corresponding term O'Connor would use to describe the relationship of " Aram " to " the Eastern Hills " and of " Balak " to " the king of Moab " . |
| 26 | I find it hard to understand it does not seem feasible to explain I can not see how neo-Darwinism seems inadequate to explain many of the complexities of animal behaviour it is not easy to comprehend how such behaviour could have evolved solely through natural selection It is impossible How could an organ so complex evolve ? |
| 27 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 28 | Virtuoso trombonist he is not , though his efforts to expand the instrument 's profile must be admired . |
| 29 | Although it has loops , procedures and conditional operators , in terms of modern software theory it is not strongly structured . |
| 30 | There were still physicists at the turn of the century who scoffed at ‘ the chemists ’ atoms ’ and because physics was then the senior partner in school science it is not surprising that chemistry teaching began without atoms : but as school chemistry matured the pattern was allowed to set , and teaching atoms early and in a straightforward factual way became taboo . |