Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the analyst said , it is not discovered but made . |
| 2 | Even if a horse is not ridden or worked , its hooves must be regularly maintained ; otherwise they are likely to badly deteriorate , and as the old saying goes : ‘ No foot , no horse ! ’ |
| 3 | It is not scaremongering or playing the numbers game to recognise and respond to changes on that scale . |
| 4 | In line with poststructuralist debates about identity and subjectivity , femininity is not assumed but explored as contradictory , strategic and fragmentary . |
| 5 | The business of the historian is not to love or to hate Mary Stuart , to judge her as a saint or a criminal , but to ask about the success or failure of her rule . |
| 6 | This is based on the presumption that , where there is no subsequent relevant amendment , a parliamentary statement on the mischief or effect of a statutory provision , which is not withdrawn or varied , expresses parliamentary intention . |
| 7 | The rule here is not to repeat or change the remedy until the action of the previous dose has ceased . |
| 8 | Follow washing instructions when using soluble products , to ensure recommended temperature is not exceeded when soaking the clothes . |
| 9 | Treated so , the authority of the Bible is not diminished but enhanced . |
| 10 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 11 | Curare is inactive when taken into the body by mouth ( which is why it is a good arrow poison for hunting game : any poison in the meat of the paralysed animal is not absorbed and does no harm to the eater ) . |
| 12 | Because it is patently obvious that Rollins is not bullshitting or manipulating . |
| 13 | This joy is not questioned or limited in any way . |
| 14 | If Montrose chiastic formulation ( historicity of texts/textuality of history ) suggests an expected critical process which is not balanced but open to intrusions , constant qualification and , in effect , cultural deconstruction , what is more frequently produced is a critical narrative which creates an impression of cultural chiasmus , a balance in which the reciprocal concerns between original cultural embedment and subsequent textual mediations are equally suspended . |
| 15 | So is not smoking or drinking at night . |
| 16 | Service courses , to judge by what one hears , are a frequent source of irritation on both sides , with the provider unhappy about cannibalizing or trivializing his or her discipline and the consumer complaining that the course is not geared or geared down to his or her needs . |
| 17 | According to the trust 's Andy Hunter , the aim is not to treat or rehabilitate people but give them an opportunity to work . |
| 18 | In 1681 he described himself as ‘ gardener to her Majestie ’ , probably Henrietta Maria [ q.v. ] , the dowager queen , at Somerset House , before she left England in 1665 , rather than Catherine of Braganza , Charles II 's consort , who is not recorded as sharing her mother-in-law 's interest in gardening . |
| 19 | Coopers , which is not accepting or denying liability under the agreement , says that the money will come from ‘ various sources ’ , including its insurers . |
| 20 | To say this is not to condone or encourage private immorality . |
| 21 | It is not fear that impedes us , but how we handle our fears . |
| 22 | This is not to claim that Marryat ever intended his sea-stories to be read primarily as studies in character . |
| 23 | The meat is not eaten and has no market value , but the dried eyes and the sexual organs of the boto are often sold as amulets to increase one 's attractiveness to the opposite sex , or to increase the bearer 's sexual powers . |
| 24 | This is not to say that knowing an individual 's class location is sufficient to be able to predict her beliefs . |
| 25 | But to say this is not to say that sighted people acquire colour concepts by ‘ experiencing ’ colours . |
| 26 | This is not to say that taking a personal pension is either a right or a wrong decision . |
| 27 | This is not to say that eating out must become a test , or analysing the menu a bore . |
| 28 | That is not to say that to get the best results you must be a strict vegetarian but , based on contemporary research , a move toward that direction makes sense . |
| 29 | This is not to say that selling public sector assets is an unwise activity ; only that cash accounts do not provide the complete picture of what happens when you do . |
| 30 | Do not delay requesting veterinary attention for any young foal which is not sucking and has diarrhoea . |