Example sentences of "this [is] not [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A growing urban demand for food has tended to stimulate production in the larger and more commercialised enterprises , but this is not of necessity nor is it always the case .
2 Now adjust preset VR1 either way to check that you get a range of 5V to 15V ; you may find you can actually go a bit beyond these limits but this is not of importance .
3 But this is not of course to deny that relevance or significance can be inferred , that insights can be drawn from the discipline and their implications for the subject explored .
4 The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making .
5 Nevertheless , this is not of importance in relation to our present consideration .
6 In my judgment , however , this is not of any importance as touching the liability of the defendant under his covenants .
7 This is not of course a sudden transition .
8 The polarity of the field is opposite to that of the Earth 's field , but in view of the many known past reversals of direction of the Earth 's field this is not of much significance .
9 ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . )
10 er , this is not of , this is not of the point , in fact it 's on it , it 's a point which I asked you before and er it concerned , I think it 's the same case as the one we 've just been mentioning the , with the commission of objecting to erm appeal procedures on the grounds they are unfair , is that , that 's the same one is n't it ? , let me just perhaps look at it
11 er , this is not of , this is not of the point , in fact it 's on it , it 's a point which I asked you before and er it concerned , I think it 's the same case as the one we 've just been mentioning the , with the commission of objecting to erm appeal procedures on the grounds they are unfair , is that , that 's the same one is n't it ? , let me just perhaps look at it
12 But this is not on today 's agenda .
13 The day after one such party at chez-Williams ( whether Orton or Halliwell appreciated how privileged they were to take part in rare occasions like this is not on record ) Orton wrote to Ken :
14 This is not without its glimmer of truth .
15 This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening .
16 This is not without some justification .
17 But this is not without hazard .
18 This is not without cause .
19 This is not without good reason .
20 This is not without problems , such as when to intervene and make an evaluation .
21 But this is not about justice , nor is it about International law .
22 But this is not about personalities .
23 This is not about beauty or trying to appear younger , ’ says the artist whose first name is Mireille but wants to be known only as Orlan .
24 This is not about exploiting lifestyles .
25 This is not about losing jobs .
26 This is not about discriminating against non-white applicants .
27 This is not about democracy , this is dictatorship , your trying to practice over a minority of people in this county .
28 While it is true that no major changes have been made to the constitution , this is not through want of trying .
29 This is not through any lack of distinction on the part of the writers of the time or those of their works that show the Greek influence ; nor is there any lack of such works .
30 This is not with me a photographic thing .
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