Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 2 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 3 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't an easy task and shows members of the public it is not just fires the fire brigade attends and it is not just cats and dogs that vets deal with . ’ |
| 5 | The fact that the specialist literature ( for example , IRS , 1986a ) continues to make repeated reference to the particular practices of a rather limited number of organizations implies that it is not , as yet , a particularly common one . |
| 6 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |
| 7 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
| 8 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 9 | However , a close examination of this work shows that it is not strictly ab initio , in that extrapolations are made from calculations performed on other molecules . |
| 10 | Whitehead Mann 's prominence shows that it is not necessary to wholly own a large number of overseas offices to gain and handle top assignments successfully ; its membership of the Ward Howell Group covers its international search needs without incurring the capital expenditure and risk that the Big Four have undertaken . |
| 11 | Such a test is of obvious value to the shoemaker and is the correct test to use but it is not an easy one to analyse in terms of material as opposed to constructional variables . |
| 12 | The natives know that it is not the actual paintings in the caves that activate the Kurunba but the rocks on which they are drawn ; the rocks being imbued with the ‘ spirit ’ of the entities depicted . |
| 13 | For example Barthes 's account of French amateur wrestling asserts that it is not a contest but a spectacle and so the outcome ( who wins ) is not a significant point in the event . |
| 14 | That er erm the county council feels that it 's not able to move toward a preferred general location in advance of the detailed assessment of the criteria . |
| 15 | The fact that this lead time can be substantially reduced under special circumstances means that it is not impossible to produce books much more quickly . |
| 16 | 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question . |
| 17 | Within that framework the committee believes that it is not clear , firstly , whether external auditors are independent of the directors of the companies they audit , secondly , whether external auditors should be accountable to a wide range of stakeholders or only to primary stakeholders , and , thirdly , for what and to whom external auditors are financially liable if they fail in any of their duties . |
| 18 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 19 | On external relationships , we must use all our influence within the Community to see that it is not just a magnet for new members , which it clearly is already , but an influence for global free trade and payments . |
| 20 | The warranties require the Vendor to confirm that it is not in breach of any obligations ; that is not something which the Purchaser can confirm . |
| 21 | This ‘ conventional ’ behaviour is described with scare quotes because it is not clear that one would be justified in reading into it the constellation of reciprocal beliefs and intentions that someone like Lewis takes as constitutive of conventional behaviour . |
| 22 | The example of the Delphic treasuries shows that it is not safe to assume that it is actually earlier in date , but it probably is so . |
| 23 | For this reason it is normal for the vendor to define precisely which documents comprise the sale agreement and to ensure the purchaser acknowledges that it is not relying on any statements of fact unless contained in these documents . |
| 24 | It takes a moment to realise that it is not some pagan idol , but a head of Christ on the cross , that the spikes represent the crown of thorns and that in the wreckage of the ancient trunk a face has been carved . |
| 25 | A greater problem arises at the stage where you have made the article to order and it 's not quite right . |
| 26 | [ 5.2 The Seller warrants that it is not aware of any actual or alleged infringements of any intellectual property rights of third parties which relate to the goods other than those ( if any ) which the Seller has disclosed to the Purchaser prior to acceptance of the Order . ] |
| 27 | These patterns imply that it is not simply a matter either of ability or of socialization which affect subject choice . |
| 28 | I 'm just keeping my fingers crossed that it 's not too serious . ’ |
| 29 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 30 | For the none technical , these figures mean that it is not a super quick modem , but has features that improve data transfer and have error correcting protocols . |