Example sentences of "which is [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'll get all I have , which is n't to be sneezed at . ’ |
| 2 | But after about two hours the excess amount of insulin in the blood tends to have an effect which is n't at all helpful to the person seeking to control hunger and food intake . |
| 3 | This is time which is n't like work time . |
| 4 | All of which is n't like me . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 6 | I know I did in some some detail , particularly in the theory elements , which is n't in Arnold 's book , but er I think you 'll find that well covered there . |
| 7 | In this chapter Lewis Carroll uses a word which is n't in the English dictionary , he uses a word he made up with his vivid imagination — ‘ Contrariwise ’ which means to be contrary . |
| 8 | In such circumstances it is improper to raise what may be an important matter which is not on the agenda sent with the summons . |
| 9 | Since the session normally ends in July , a Bill which is not on its way by May or June may stand little chance of passing into law . |
| 10 | The authentic Church is part of a Kingdom which is not on the way out , but on the way in . |
| 11 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 12 | It does this by insisting that a belief which is not about our own sensory states ( immediate experience ) must , if it is to be justified , be justified by appeal to beliefs which are about our own sensory states . |
| 13 | There is no such thing as a worthless book , though there are some far worse than worthless ; no book which is not worth preserving , if its existence may be tolerated ; as there are some men whom it may be proper to hang , but none who should be suffered to starve . |
| 14 | The risk that failure to agree terms could result in the outgoing partner seeking a formal dissolution of the firm on peremptory notice is one which is not worth running . |
| 15 | Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain . |
| 16 | The overall project , which is not under threat , is funded jointly by Lothian Region 's Health Board and its social services policy committee , both of which provided start-up cash for the counselling service . |
| 17 | One response to a difficult situation , which is not without its merits , is the growth of ad hoc choirs and groups , singing on special occasions . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the Act allows pupils ' family backgrounds , ages and aptitudes to be taken into account by the school in determining whether an act of collective worship which is not of a broadly Christian character takes place in the school . |
| 19 | This line of argument supports , as beneficial to all , a certain kind of individualism , which is not of course the same as egoism . |
| 20 | In a clear reference to past failures by an Association which has , in years gone by , been unwilling to respond positively either to anything which is not of its own making , or anybody who is not on its payroll , Pickard went on to state , ‘ If we do not respond , for whatever reasons , keep knocking at the door until someone answers . ’ |
| 21 | The work of Melanie Klein is omitted because it relates to the technicalities of psychoanalytic therapy , which is not of central concern here , where it does not impinge on sociology . |
| 22 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 23 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |
| 24 | An example of that would be if you bought a new pocket calculator and then find it wo n't work then the legal position is the shop have broken their contract with you , because they 've sold you a pocket calculator which is not of merchantable quality , and you should be entitled to money back in a case like that . |
| 25 | Ideological objections may also be voiced to gradation schemes , for gradation clearly rests on the premise that rape encompasses a range of behaviour which is not of uniform gravity . |
| 26 | One thesis I am arguing for claims that authoritative reasons are pre-emptive : the fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do , but should exclude and take the place of some of them . |
| 27 | If we decide , in the case of the baptism study , that we must carry out fieldwork to collect data which is not to be found in already published sources we must consider how best to utilize what resources we have . |
| 28 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 29 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 30 | They may be liberal , but there is a certain minimum reference to a particular history , above all to a certain person , which is not to be avoided if one is to call oneself Christian . |