Example sentences of "and [adj] [is] not " in BNC.

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1 In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced .
2 Yes , maybe there are some women who do n't have to work , their husbands are well off and love them , but they often stay indoors all day and that is not nice .
3 And that is not to be tolerated . ’
4 It is either going to be physically rationed or price rationed … prices are too low anyway , since we still have to have an operating subsidy , and that is not in line with the long-term political trend … ’
5 Costs have risen faster than general inflation and that is not going to change .
6 In a special note about the committee 's findings sent to its 1,250 members last week , Imro wrote : ‘ We can not claim to have come out of this very well : to an extent , Imro was thumped and that is not an agreeable experience .
7 And that is not at all easy .
8 After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us .
9 And I affirm that the time has come to express this truth in the life of the Church , and that is not going to go away .
10 No one doubts the toxic properties of lead above such levels , and that is not an issue in this debate .
11 And if a band coming from Thick Paddy Land — and that is not true — comes along and tells these people what 's up they might not be awfully pleased . ’
12 A game lasts 90 minutes , but you 're lucky if it 's 50 minutes actual playing time — and that is not too much time to run up a score . ’
13 Piontek said : ‘ People are expecting a new Lineker to come through straight away and that is not possible .
14 And that is not easy .
15 Resources are being mobilized to the best of their ability , and that is not enough .
16 However , this does not matter much , since the book has to be printed and that is not so simple in Russia at the moment .
17 The figure of Christ is that of a male figure , and that is not to be evaded .
18 One indication of the effect produced by Boulestin 's recipes is that whenever a second-hand copy of one of his books turns up — and that is not often — one finds it scarred with pencil marks against the recipes which have been cooked by the previous owner and often , slipped somewhere among the pages , a list of dishes noted for future trial .
19 He was also right , and that is not in dispute on this appeal , to conclude that the execution by the appellants of the charge dated 4 December 1989 was a breach of the order of the court of 5 October .
20 And that is not true !
21 All right , the team are going through a temporary loss of form and that is not what you pay to see but , remember , football is a business not an entertainment .
22 The project quality plan is produced by the project engineer looking after the job , and that is not the project coordinator .
23 Erm and that is not half as what it was last year .
24 ‘ Tara has always been remote , ’ said Raynor without expression , and at once Grainne thought : and that is not a good thing !
25 There , his intention is that the policeman should act lawfully , and that is not sufficient .
26 Jurisprudentially , the effect is that the offence has become obstructing a constable in the use of his powers , and that is not what the section prohibits .
27 Disruptive persons would succeed in their objects , and that is not something that the law should permit .
28 However this definition firmly identifies the contribution of physical geographers to the investigation of soils as primarily a historical or global one and that is not necessarily unanimously accepted in all the books produced by physical geographers in the 1970s ( Table 5.1 ) .
29 However , turning aside these local instruments , and that is not to suggest that they are unimportant , how may lawyers and interested laymen each year obtain copies of delegated legislation which are thought to , and may indeed , affect their client 's or their own life and course of conduct , only to find that they are out of print or not yet available ?
30 At any rate from 1571 it might well have been very disadvantageous for anyone in the district to openly profess allegiance to the Popish ways and Roman Catholic miners well might have been driven underground — and that is not fully intended as a pun .
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