Example sentences of "it is not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if it is not natural not to stand |
| 2 | Much of the veneer of sediments resting on the oceanic crust of the downgoing plate will not be subducted since it is not firmly attached to the underlying crust and because it is not sufficiently dense to sink of its own accord into the asthenosphere . |
| 3 | But the difficulty is great , and the greatest danger is that if it is not well performed the music can seem banal . |
| 4 | Or you can install a wooden framework , and cover it with plasterboard , chipboard or hardboard ( although the latter may buckle if it is not well supported ) . |
| 5 | Even to the student of British politics it is not well understood . |
| 6 | This gives a lighter , cleaner taste which does n't overpower and illustrates the fact that it is not just the obvious oily herring , mackerel and salmon which have the body to withstand a mustard onslaught . |
| 7 | However , it is not just beginners who make mistakes and get caught out . |
| 8 | If you smoke when you 're pregnant , it is not just your own health you are damaging . |
| 9 | But it is not just how the new consciousness is to be used which produces problems in handling this new-found wisdom ; it is the very acquisition of knowledge itself which makes the concept of self so dynamic . |
| 10 | In so doing , they claim that it is not just secondary qualities that are confined to the mind , but , with them , the whole vivid force of the world-as-we-perceive-it , - what some philosophers call the manifest image of the world — which is intrinsically bound up with the secondary qualities . |
| 11 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 12 | It is not just overseas graduate students who have problems . |
| 13 | Yet it is not just his commitments with the Royal Ballet that hold him up , it is also his unusually intense way of making a work . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not just the lack of manners which appalls us , but the sheer bad timing . |
| 15 | No respite for leftist cows IT IS not just the peasants who are revolting in Romania — the few remaining kulaks are also playing up . |
| 16 | It is not just a matter of the tens of thousands who have streamed out of the country in recent weeks , via Budapest , Prague and Warsaw . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not just statistics that are involved , it is also research and information generally , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It is not just their passionate hatred of the Vietnamese that has kept the Khmer Rouge together in the malarial jungles for 10 years . |
| 19 | It is not just artistic ephemera which suffer from metal fatigue in the heat of ubiquitous exposure . |
| 20 | It is not just that dealing with Old Age Pensioners who have reported missing budgies falls outside the definition of what counts as ‘ real ’ police work , the work is also disliked because it is problematic , for policemen need to display competence in the way they convey sympathy while admitting that nothing will be done . |
| 21 | It is not just the situation of the accounting which is important in stories of this sort , for , although the telling of exciting stories is often used to enliven boring work , the moral of these particular action stories is crucial to their accounting . |
| 22 | It is not just children who have this animosity . |
| 23 | It is not just because of their greater autonomy that discretion in both senses is very important to neighbourhood police . |
| 24 | But it is not just bad weather which takes the gilt off the packed-lunch gingerbread . |
| 25 | It is not just that high myth looks down towards low present reality . |
| 26 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 27 | But it is not just the strong smells of food , but the metaphorical smells of corruption and moral and social decay which are suggested by the inclusion of such items in his work . |
| 28 | There is a rigid hierarchy but it is not just a sexual hierarchy . |
| 29 | ( In fact , there is carbohydrate craving , so it is not just a matter of apathy about cooking . ) |
| 30 | It is not an easy task — and it is not just a matter of buying the vaccines . |