Example sentences of "which [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-structuralist texts expose the role of language in deferring meaning and in constructing a subjectivity which is not fixed but is constantly negotiated through a whole range of forces — economic , social and political . |
| 2 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 3 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 4 | A further example of abstract form which is not mere pattern is Tantric art . |
| 5 | Klima 's stories breathe a delicate patriotism — which is not absent , either , from Kundera 's accounts of a country which is harder to inhabit , or remain in , or return to . |
| 6 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 8 | Should Amis 's friendship with Larkin — which goes unstated in Amis 's fiction , but which is not absent from it — matter to the reader of that fiction ? |
| 9 | This is reminiscent of the sort of inversion a fault-finding literary criticism can produce — which is not to deny , which is indeed to admit , that the Arab leaders and polemicists of the region have had their faults , including some of those which have been identified over the years by Commentary . |
| 10 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 11 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 12 | Another common cause of accidents is the inexperienced pilot who buys a glider which is not suited to his skill and experience . |
| 13 | Never train with heavily padded mitts or you will come to rely upon the extra cushioning effect which is not there with the competition version . |
| 14 | You must turn until your back is nearly towards the opponent , which is not a healthy position to be in . |
| 15 | The generation that rediscovered the existential was precisely the one best fitted to look and think ‘ within ’ , which is not unrealism , but a different form of realism — and one unavoidable to such as Leonard , given the horrors inflicted on his own people by the most ‘ culturally advanced ’ nation of the day . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing which is not either documented by photograph or clearly indicated by surviving is replaced . |
| 17 | Talk to your local councillor as well , if you feel there is a need which is not being met . |
| 18 | In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available . |
| 19 | Which is not to say that much fine work is not achieved . |
| 20 | The poems speak of Youth , of Beauty' , of Love , of Parting and of Death , the last of which is not tragic but full of promise that life will be reborn . |
| 21 | However , all but the last method can damage the wood , which is not important if the wood is to be painted , as this will obliterate any damage . |
| 22 | All this might well be accomplished in the comparatively open-ended context of adult or continuing education , which is not dominated by the teleology of the examination system . |
| 23 | It was a not uncommon combination in a certain breed of Englishman and Englishwoman — a breed perhaps now vanished , which is not to say , improved upon . |
| 24 | ( Williams however in such a poem beautifully weaves the syntax of the sentence into and over his verse-lines — which is not a resource that most imagists were aware of . ) |
| 25 | By ‘ softness ’ I mean an opposite quality which is not always a fault . |
| 26 | Plus a backdrop of houses covering the valley walls on either side , a reminder that wherever industrialised societies decide to deal with their most intractable problems , they are unlikely to find a place to do so which is not in somebody 's back yard . |
| 27 | WHEN Ron Dennis , the managing director of McLaren International , goes to the trouble of stressing that his team intend to continue giving Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost impartial treatment during the final two races , such a commendably even-handed approach immediately arouses suspicion in a sport governed by an organisation which is not exactly noted for its equitable methods . |
| 28 | It is a strategy which is not supported by an appropriate infrastructure . |
| 29 | The present system , which is not more effective , costs £110 for the same result . |
| 30 | He was , wrote one of the hard-bitten professionals who served under him ‘ too much of a gentleman ’ , which is not a common criticism nowadays . |