Example sentences of "it is not [adv] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the negative passive construction with the to infinitive would imply that the non-occurrence of the infinitive event was being inferred and asserted from the absence of perception , it is not normally used by speakers of English . |
| 2 | It is not normally used between two complete sentences ( where a semicolon or colon is used instead ) , but is used to separate off various supplementary things in a sentence . |
| 3 | It is not widely used for research outside the military because of the cost of high fidelity simulator time . |
| 4 | Although social class is one of the census categories ( see Chapter 2 ) , it is not widely used in the publication of official statistics on education . |
| 5 | The blue-flowered garden species of this genus ( N. x faassenii ) , also called catmint , is highly decorative , with its grey leaves and long-lasting flower spikes , but N. cataria is the true herb , of little known but considerable medical use , for which it has a long history , back to Gerard 's day and earlier , though it is not so used nowadays . |
| 6 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 7 | Evidently it is not much use replacing existential propositions with their properly quantified " canonical " paraphrases , if the concept of existential quantification itself gives rise to obscurities and can not be made sufficiently precise . |
| 8 | It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve . |