Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it is n't . |
| 2 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 3 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 4 | Although a minor error in the recitation of the Vedas was looked upon with strong disapproval , passing events were regarded by the Hindus as devoid of real significance and so it is not surprising that no importance was attached to providing them with accurate dates . |
| 5 | And so it is not easily worn away or eroded . |
| 6 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 7 | These coefficients are sensitive both to the difficulty of a test as well as its reliability ( consistency ) and so it is not easy to assess the latter . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that voting by a single shareholder will make much difference to the success of a resolution either way , and so it is not worthwhile for shareholders to evaluate proposals put to the general meeting . |
| 9 | Of course , Britain is not a democracy of the kind envisaged by those nineteenth-century theorists who focused on the active and informed citizen , and so it is not a democracy that is in accord with the " old-fashioned " liberal-democratic theory of the constitution , but interest-group competition provides for a good working democratic system . |
| 10 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 11 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 12 | Religious support is normally little called upon — indeed the record of most religions with regard to these issues is not regarded as good , and so it is not surprising that many see religion as the suppressor of human rights rather than as their advocate . |
| 13 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 14 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 15 | Somehow , hers is in good taste , and so mine is not . |
| 16 | And perhaps it is n't . |
| 17 | This is not highly encouraging , and perhaps it is not surprising that although the need for formal systematic planning was noted in our sample , and the concept of appraisal was mentioned by a small number of respondents , evaluation was rarely described in any depth , although 62% of the programmes described by the data sheets indicated that an assessment procedure was employed . |
| 18 | So it does n't make sense , and obviously it is n't er , written joint life , last claim . |
| 19 | We have all we want to know about that sort of thing and anyway it is not my job . |
| 20 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 21 | This is the kind of data which is not relevant to his objectives and thus it is not recorded in his model . |
| 22 | The larger the group the greater this tendency , argues Olson , and thus it is not surprising that amorphous groups such as consumers , or even economic classes , do not unite in common action to pursue their interests . |
| 23 | The workforce has been cut in half to 24,000 and still there is not enough work to go round : some production lines work only a 3-4-day week . |
| 24 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 25 | WHEN Graham Gabriel says he needs three actors who can learn lines quickly and accurately he is not being over-dramatic . |
| 26 | ‘ And now it is n't . ’ |
| 27 | But in the developing world the rate of increase in food production has been exceeded by the rate of increase of the population , and now there is not enough food being produced in the developing world for the local population . |
| 28 | Health statistics tend to relate to large psychiatric hospitals which include younger patients and often it is not possible to distinguish costs for acute or assessment beds or for outpatient or day hospital attendances . |
| 29 | For example , it may be the practice on your ward to obtain less information from patients who are admitted as day cases than those who are to stay in hospital for some time and often it is not practical to conduct any sort of interview with someone who is admitted as an emergency . |
| 30 | An extreme form of the second is the Spanish fighting bull which undergoes considerable pain before being despatched by the matador , even if this is skilfully done , and often it is n't . |