Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is not just sponges that can self-assemble .
2 It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget .
3 Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface .
4 While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends .
5 It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability .
6 Indeed , it is not even known whether some substances which contaminate water are harmful or not .
7 … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth .
8 But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared .
9 It is not wholly clear that the Act has the effect intended for it .
10 Unsolicited information gives rise to difficulties for it is not clearly established whether this may be made subject to an obligation of confidence .
11 It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe .
12 It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary .
13 For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start .
14 It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development .
15 Apart from the load attempted suicide places on health service facilities , it is not yet known whether the high levels of the behaviour in recent years will subsequently be reflected in an increase in the numbers of completed suicides .
16 But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family .
17 Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there .
18 It is not yet known whether any revision coming out of the move will be in place for the coming or the following campaign .
19 It is not yet known whether toothed whales regularly use such a weapon .
20 It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period .
21 It is not yet known whether a claim in tort can be framed in terms of loss of chance .
22 It is not yet known whether Russia will attempt to salvage the nuclear submarine that sank off northern Norway in April 1989 .
23 It is not yet known whether the dormant bacteria can return to the infectious state .
24 It is not yet known if other symptoms of jet-lag are reduced and there is little clear evidence that they adjust the body clock that controls body temperature and performance rhythms .
25 However , it is not yet known if NC protein has an additional role during reverse transcription and/or prior to proviral integration .
26 Although it is not yet known if the H2T cell line expresses TGF α , these findings go some way to support the hypothesis proposed by Korc and others that TGF α may have a role as an autocrine growth stimulator in pancreatic cancer .
27 It is not yet known if hypobiosis occurs in Oe. radiatum .
28 While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain .
29 In summary , it is not yet clear that a modification of the daily rhythms is a necessary requirement of treatment or that an abnormality of the body clock is the cause of the disorder .
30 We wish to preface our discussion of syndromes involving abnormal language development with the disclaimer that , while these categories may delineate separate psychiatric categories , it is not yet clear that each of these categories represents a unique type of linguistic disorder .
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