Example sentences of "[is] not [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow is not over God more than it is over anything else . |
| 2 | This aim is underpinned by three interrelated objectives and it is not without significance how they complement and serve to implement the White Paper 's own trinity of ‘ aims of supervision ’ , that is , protection of the public , prevention of reoffending and successful reintegration of the offender in the community ( p. 35 , para. 7.3 ) . |
| 3 | In the Declaration of Arbroath they made their principles splendidly clear : For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise submit to the rule of the English , for it is not for glory alone we fight , for riches , or for honours , but for freedom , which no good man loses but with his life . |
| 4 | Once more , the question of what is morally or ideologically correct is not at issue here : political rectitude is not a consideration since the politics of ‘ race relations ’ are not articulated and can not therefore be interrogated . |
| 5 | This aspect of Kuhn 's argument is not at issue here . |
| 6 | The fact that Friedmann 's assessment of the USSR was historically more accurate than Nizan 's is not at issue here . |
| 7 | Cost is not of course necessarily the major consideration ; none of the people the project sustained to six months or one year wanted to be anywhere else but at home . |
| 8 | We have already argued that the concept of a syndrome is not of use as far as theoretical analysis of language disorders is concerned , because it is not the case that a small number of syndromes ( defined as sets of symptoms which always co-occur ) actually exist . |
| 9 | With newly-growing insights , Harry now knows ‘ that my business is not to run away , but to pursue , not to avoid being found , but to seek ’ . |
| 10 | Thus the role of the coach is not to hand out advice passively but to act as a partner and a catalyst . |
| 11 | Alf Tupper is not in Middlesbrough either . |
| 12 | While unlikely , this is not in principle altogether implausible , and so the wrong answer would be reached . |
| 13 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 14 | Of course , Governments like the guillotine , but the House is not in existence only to protect the rights of Governments and the Executive . |
| 15 | That the Assistant Manager emerged later in the day at the same door similarly disoriented is not in doubt either . |
| 16 | He showed , in his famous ‘ H theorem ’ , that if the gas is not in equilibrium then collisions will increase the entropy until finally a state of equilibrium is reached . |
| 17 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 18 | This particular demand of political morality is not in fact well described in the catch phrase that we must treat like cases alike . |
| 19 | Although many people have been known to claim that they have a poor visual imagination , this is not in fact so . |
| 20 | Analysis of contractor 's cash flow projections and their discounting back to current prices may reveal that what appears to be the cheapest tender is not in fact so , or that it would exceed the client 's budget at certain times . |
| 21 | Gibson ( 1969 ) expands on these notions at some length but is not in fact very forthcoming about the mechanisms involved . |
| 22 | The argument that in English one can theoretically address others without revealing status , on which some of Lyons ' claims for the ‘ objectivity ’ of the language rest , is not in fact readily subscribed to by linguists . |
| 23 | Well I suppose like that it 's not worth tuppence really . |
| 24 | It 's not at home as far as I can see . |
| 25 | What 's not on grid then ? |
| 26 | it 's not on paper yet . |
| 27 | It 's not like Monopoly then ? |
| 28 | But it 's not in Warwick though is it ? |
| 29 | It 's a shame she 's not in charge now . |
| 30 | she 'll get it by hook or by crook , that 's on the , wonder she 's not in jail though for not paying I heard how many time , how much she 's borrowed over Christmas , for at , for , for er , what they call it as well you know er , what they call it Beverley her daughter |