Example sentences of "it is not [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not whether the idea is correct but the great scope o f the vision that should interest us . |
| 2 | It is not that a major shift is suddenly taking place , although the stock market crash of October 1987 did make people feel as if the ground was unexpectedly moving beneath them . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not that the Canadians have deserted the railways , ’ says Roy Jamieson , their policy officer , ‘ the railways have deserted Canada . ’ |
| 4 | It is not that the coin is of a fixed weight , since lumps of bullion can and often are produced to a specific weight standard . |
| 5 | It is not that the Bosox are chronically hapless in the manner of the Chicago Cubs or the Seattle Mariners . |
| 6 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 7 | It is not that the arbitrator 's word is an absolute reason which has to be obeyed come what may . |
| 8 | It is not that the law claims that one ought to obey the law come what may . |
| 9 | It is not that the cells die because they are sick or somehow abnormal — dying is part of their programmed development . |
| 10 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 11 | It is not that the questioners are unintelligent , but rather that they are uninformed — and , after all , as science writers information is our business . |
| 12 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 13 | It is not that the interventions were no good . |
| 14 | As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms . |
| 15 | It is not that the question of the ordination of women is being considered for the first time in our day ! |
| 16 | It is not that the nature of the sensation can create a rule ; the rule creates a nature for the sensation , by enabling us to conceive of ways in which this sensation might resemble others . |
| 17 | It is not that the information in the second version is not true , but rather that it is assumed — and that the witness can assume it is assumed . |
| 18 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 19 | It is not that the expansion of the universe causes disorder to increase . |
| 20 | It is not that the west has failed to make an attempt to do so , and I pay genuine tribute to the work done by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and by my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , who is to reply to this debate , and to the tireless efforts of Lord Carrington and , more recently , Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 21 | As we shall see later , it is not that the superego does not exist in these circumstances , but that it is undeveloped , unsupported by cultural forces of a progressive character ( and therefore vulnerable to exploitation by those of a regressive nature ) , and is primitive in its functioning . |
| 22 | It is not that the hearer has to decide which of a range of possible interpretations the speaker intended . |
| 23 | One should note that within the text it is not until a good three-quarters of the tale has passed that Wilekin is identified as a clerk , in the exchange between Margery and Dame Sirith over the weeping bitch . |
| 24 | It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups . |
| 25 | It is not until the Gospel has been preached in every nation that our Lord Jesus Christ will return again . |
| 26 | It is not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century that the shrouded effigy appears as the central sculptural feature on funerary monuments . |
| 27 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 28 | Gadamer has claimed that ‘ it is not until the Enlightenment that the concept of prejudice acquires the negative aspect we are all familiar with ’ ( 1979 : 240 ) . |
| 29 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 30 | It is not until the turn of the century that what is probably the best guide to Islay was published . |