Example sentences of "[noun sg] is not [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 2 | The implication of the term is not only that it is a privileged group but that , as a result , its members will not desire change and so be a conservative force in society . |
| 3 | Althugh endoscopic sclerotherapy is undoubtedly the first line of treatment today , 30% of patients fail to leave hospital alive , and even in specialist units this figure is not less than 20% . |
| 4 | Stylish yet comfortable maternity wear is n't always as easy to find as it should be . |
| 5 | For the issue at stake is not necessarily whether Clarke is good or bad at his job , something which is indeed a topic of conversation among MPs , not just among the media 's ‘ very well-paid political hacks ’ , as Clydesdale MP Jimmy Hood asserted this week . |
| 6 | The owners inadvertently supply another , but in their absence , this crutch is n't there and symptoms of separation anxiety occur . |
| 7 | And erm maybe have a look through erm some of the erm well there 's a file on social work is n't there and all the stuff about the qualifications , and get some of the prospectuses and so and |
| 8 | The usefulness of some system of cooperation and team work is not only that the particular subject knowledge or skills of teachers can be pooled and shared , The teacher also needs support and advice in a more personal and practical sense . |
| 9 | The reason we have a hierarchical organization of work is not only that tasks occur in lower and higher degrees of complexity — which is obvious — but also that there are sharp discontinuities in complexity that separate tasks into a series of steps or categories — which is not so obvious . |
| 10 | They further suggest that the form is suitable where the contract period is not more than twelve months and the value of the work is not more than £250,000 at 1984 prices . |
| 11 | But for us on earth , wrote Harsnet , the run is not long but short . |
| 12 | Effective help is not always as easy or obvious a thing to give as we might like . |
| 13 | The subject of the degree is not always as significant in securing a job as you might think . |
| 14 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 15 | Examples from our corpus confirm these observations but show that the line between mediate and immediate assistance is not always as easy to draw as Erades and Wood make it out to be . |
| 16 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 17 | The compulsion to be exercised in the attempt to satisfy the claim of right is not purely or mainly internal to particular societies : it is compulsion to be exercised by some societies against other societies , coercion to be brought to bear upon an international scale . |
| 18 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 19 | They further suggest that the form is suitable where the contract period is not more than twelve months and the value of the work is not more than £250,000 at 1984 prices . |
| 20 | That is not to say the process is not quicker when you are living in the country concerned . |
| 21 | Today , of course , the suburb is n't quite as Richards found it . |
| 22 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 23 | The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits . |
| 24 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 25 | However , for the purposes of the current research the important point is not necessarily whether RHT is correct but whether one of the main propositions underlying it is correct . |
| 26 | Modernity is not merely or even supremely capitalism . |
| 27 | The night is not over and we need our sleep . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 29 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 30 | The new Agricultural Minister , John Gummer , has decided that voluntary restraint is not enough and is planning legislation now . |