Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] [is] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forward contracts are relatively easy to arrange , although the exporter is committed to supplying the currency agreed to the bank even if the export deal is cancelled or payment is not received within the forward contract period . |
| 2 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 3 | The House is debating a complex Bill presented by a Government who for 12 years have said that legislation is not needed on consumer protection issues . |
| 4 | ‘ A Frenchman is not a Brit with a beret and a baguette , but having said that France is not a difficult market but a different market . |
| 5 | It might be said that Rochlin is not to be taken seriously , being merely a popularizing psychologist . |
| 6 | They might have said that harm is not " actual " unless it is something beyond the trivial , for which a charge of common assault is adequate ; but they have not imposed even this degree of control . |
| 7 | Because of the case , of going to court to claim compensation for James , we had to have neuroligists to come and look at James and assess him for thes claim and they have said that James is not in a persistent vegetative state . ’ |
| 8 | On the debit side it must be said that Ventura is not really suited for use on documents where the styles and formats change from page to page ; newsletters and magazines , for example . |
| 9 | Of course , it could be argued that purpose is not confined to use in a functional sense but also encompasses the enjoyment which the buyer can reasonably expect from his purchase . |
| 10 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 11 | However , since we have argued that content is not the defining criterion of feminist perspectives , we are not claiming a new objectivity or neutrality . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there is a strong case to be made that Aquinas is not setting out to provide proofs of God 's existence . |
| 13 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 14 | Under such automated systems and automated quality controls , the production line will be stopped if performance is not up to standard . |
| 15 | Experience has shown that licensing is not generally a satisfactory approach . |
| 16 | Children need to know what to do in these cases if they are to get at the truth , and they also need to be shown that print is not necessarily infallible . |
| 17 | Later research has shown that dreaming is not unique to this phase of sleep , but REM dreams are typically much more colourful and rich in imagery than non-REM dreams . |
| 18 | Thus in Chinantec , there are four expressions to choose from if one wants to say " Pedro moved to X " , depending on the following criteria : ( i ) one verb form is used if the speaker 5 is at X at CT , and X is S 's home-base ; ( ii ) another is used if S is at X , but X is not S's home-base ; ( iii ) a third is used if S is not at X , but X is S 's home-base ; ( iv ) a fourth is used if S is not at X , and X is not S's home-base ( Fillmore , 1917b : 16 ) . |
| 19 | Thus in Chinantec , there are four expressions to choose from if one wants to say " Pedro moved to X " , depending on the following criteria : ( i ) one verb form is used if the speaker 5 is at X at CT , and X is S 's home-base ; ( ii ) another is used if S is at X , but X is not S's home-base ; ( iii ) a third is used if S is not at X , but X is S 's home-base ; ( iv ) a fourth is used if S is not at X , and X is not S's home-base ( Fillmore , 1917b : 16 ) . |
| 20 | Conversely , it should allow for ‘ what if ’ model based solutions where perhaps unusual symptoms have occurred and time is not a critical factor against which analysis has to take place . |
| 21 | ( It should be noted that translucency is not the same as the semi-opacity of , for example , fish and chips . ) |
| 22 | It will be noted that Nicholl is not listed as a colour sergeant , and nor is anyone else . |
| 23 | First it should be noted that EHS is not a perfect model of the normal liver matrix as some dedifferentiation of hepatocytes cultured on this substratum can be detected . |
| 24 | It is to be noted that need is not referred to albeit that , in practice , many applications for interim payment are made with the specific intent of securing a sum designed to meet a specific need or requirement of the pursuer . |
| 25 | It should be noted that L is not the greatest possible dimension of the pebble but is quite strictly defined in geometric terms . |
| 26 | However , Mead , Cooley and Thomas also recognised that socialisation is not a simple one-way process , and that potential for change is also generated within the individual . |
| 27 | The Meta PI routines are available to any LIFESPAN user , provided that user is not already logged into LIFESPAN either interactively or via PI or PMR . |
| 28 | If we postmultiply ( 2 ) by co and write unc ( ki is of course a scalar ) we obtain unc Accordingly , provided that co is not such that k1 ( |
| 29 | Yet Nizan is insistent that ideology and aesthetics are not necessarily mutually exclusive provided that the problem of their unification is viewed dialectically : that is to say , provided that literature is not perceived as a static object but the site of a dialectical process involving writer and reader in a moral and political adventure . |
| 30 | Even in 1914 there was still widespread agreement with Drouyn de Lhuys , one of the foreign ministers of Napoleon III , that aristocratic diplomats were " very useful if not indispensable for the éclat of our embassies , provided that merit is not altogether absent " . |