Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [is] [adv] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 2 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 3 | Guidance on fair value reports and Section 108 valuations is contained in the CFM and is therefore not repeated in detail in this guide . |
| 4 | This swash bar may be pushed up above high tide level and is obviously not destroyed by a falling tide as would be a break point bar . |
| 5 | Murdock was a man of considerable genius and is often not given enough credit for his contributions to science and engineering . |
| 6 | Other economic achievements of the late eighteenth century were the draining of the marshes in the old lake bed of the Ljubljansko Barje — work which had been started in Roman times and is still not completed — the introduction of maize and potatoes into the crop rotation , the expansion of viticulture and the development of the textile industry . |
| 7 | By the blurring of the division between those needing residential care and those needing nursing home care this privatisation is being carried out by stealth and is often not recognised by those working with elderly people . |
| 8 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 9 | However , stock purchased for growth or expansion is normally regarded as capital expenditure and is therefore not considered for the purposes of recurrent funding . |
| 10 | Geologically this seems unlikely , if only because the Campanian chalk is widely distributed in the Paris Basin and is certainly not confined to the Montagne de Reims . ’ |