Example sentences of "[adv] it is not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas . |
| 2 | Perhaps the target has been badly chosen or perhaps it is not clearly seen . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is n't fully appreciated how easy greenhouses are to move , especially if they are aluminium and just a few seasons old . |
| 4 | And so it is not easily worn away or eroded . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it is not financially troubled Japan , but Asia 's tigers who are leading the next wave of investment in the region . |
| 6 | Certainly if the building at Thorpe is a mutatio , then it is not visibly imitated elsewhere ! |
| 7 | It dawns on me that if he had not succeeded in entering her then it is not legally rape . |
| 8 | The attempt is found occasionally in the work of their pupils , and at this time becomes quite frequent , but in vase-painting at least it is not successfully achieved until quite late in the century . |
| 9 | The system is seen working according to this plan in Fragment B , but even there it is not consistently maintained . |
| 10 | Evidently it is not much use replacing existential propositions with their properly quantified " canonical " paraphrases , if the concept of existential quantification itself gives rise to obscurities and can not be made sufficiently precise . |
| 11 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |