Example sentences of "[pron] is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Which is not to say that the nuclear powers should simply bang away at will . |
| 32 | Which is not to say we wo n't accept sponsorship . ’ |
| 33 | The idea is of some set of things which was required for the occurrence of the effect , which is not to say that the set includes all the things prior to the effect that were required for it . |
| 34 | Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind . |
| 35 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 36 | Which is not to say there are n't some marvellous people too . |
| 37 | These responses are now of uniformly high quality , which is not to say that they always endorse the views of the Select Committee , but they show that the Government has thought seriously about what the Committee has argued . |
| 38 | There is no one solution to sociology 's empirical reference , no clear idea as to whether there ever could be , no one canonical method for all sociological research , and no one conception of data : data are whatever a researcher can make useful for meeting his/her research objectives , aims or problems , which is not to say that just any old thing will do . |
| 39 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 40 | However , he always retained control over the issues that he regarded as most important ( which is not to say that they were necessarily the most important in an objective sense ) . |
| 41 | Then a new kind of family will arise , one which is not based on the exploitation of one sex by another . |
| 42 | Indeed this may more likely be the case if there is a uniform salary within the civil service which is not based upon performance . |
| 43 | All these particle facts can be put together in the following way : A state ( the photon polarised along x " ) can be thought of as composed of a combination ( the technical term is a superposition ) of other states ( the photon polarised along y , which is transmitted , and the photon polarised along x , which is not transmitted ) . |
| 44 | These cases may be discounted for the present purpose , which is not to see what lay people believed or imagined about the law , but what distinctions and doctrines the jurists who developed it were employing . |
| 45 | The 18-hole course , while still immature , is improving at a rapid pace , though , after a summer of near-drought , it would benefit from a long soaking , which is not to detract from its considerable potential . |
| 46 | The continental company , which is not named , is negotiating with Darlington Borough Council through a local construction company which would build the hospital at Lingfield Way , on the Yarm Road industrial estate . |
| 47 | Even Baumrind ( 1982 ) , supporting Gilligan 's different voice hypothesis against what she sees as the traditionalism of the psychology of androgyny , holds on to the traditional framework of Jungian psychology in order to do this , and later ( 1986 ) , reinterprets the hypothesis in a humanist and spiritual framework , which is not differentiated by gender . |
| 48 | Where the seller instructs the auctioneer to place a reserve price which is not publicised , the auctioneer may still refuse to accept any bid below the reserve price since bids constitute only offers . |
| 49 | One of which is not to open it . |
| 50 | Netting is particularly prone to such earthing , and the bottom horizontal ( which is not electrified ) is frequently bitten through by rabbits or badgers , making gaps for lambs to squeeze through . |
| 51 | Like Ingram , they concluded that imitation is predominantly a perceptuo-motor task which is not influenced by the child 's understanding of meaning . |
| 52 | They show that little can be done for , which is not done with the people . |
| 53 | In other words it 's a new it 's something which is not done directly from the computer but which is using information the computer provides . |
| 54 | There is not a US coastal state which is not considering measures to preserve its coastal regions and the Environmental Protection Agency has put the cost of protecting cities against a one metre sea-level rise at between $73 and $111 trillion . |
| 55 | As for the requirement for the owners , charterers , managers and operators of the vessel and , in the case of a company , the shareholders and directors , to be resident and domiciled in the member state in which the vessel is to be registered , it must be held that such a requirement , which is not justified by the rights and obligations created by the grant of a national flag to a vessel , results in discrimination on grounds of nationality . |
| 56 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 57 | It is artificially constrained in a way that ensures that the burden is not fairly distributed and those at the top end of the property range , and very likely to be at the top end of the income range , are being given shelter which is not justified . |
| 58 | any of the rights of the shares to receive payments ( whether in respect of dividends , in respect of redemption or otherwise ) are for a limited amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits or the dividends on any class of equity share . |
| 59 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 60 | Of course , novelists have a license to invent their speech , and thus to heighten its qualities for dramatic impact , which is not granted to the journalist or sociologist . |