Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun] is not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quite apart from the liability imposed upon the owner of animals or the person having control of them by reason of knowledge of their propensities , there is the ordinary duty of a person to take care either that his animal or his chattel is not put to such a use as is likely to injure his neighbour — the ordinary duty to take care in the cases put upon negligence . ’ |
| 2 | I 've nothing against young people discovering the beauty of our national parks ( I myself am only 23 ) and my anger is not directed at the offenders themselves , but at the so-called leaders of the group . |
| 3 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 4 | The valuation of shares in private companies is notoriously controversial , for the simple reason that the shares are not available for subscription by the public and their price is not quoted on a stock exchange . |
| 5 | The pair have reportedly clashed over who runs the commercial side of the club , and their relationship is not helped by a new book by former chairman Irving Scholar . |
| 6 | Can I just say on this subject that while I understand the arguments on both sides of the fence , remember that for every successful composer there are hundreds who are not , and their cause is not helped by someone taping their album for a friend . |
| 7 | It becomes a term whose reference is linguistic and whose meaning is not determined by the phenomenon of the early modern period . |
| 8 | He can walk and his speech is not affected , but he suffers from poor concentration and intermittent double vision . |
| 9 | " There is no light and our work is not done . |
| 10 | ‘ I did not mean risk with me , ’ he answered , annoyed , ‘ but it is trying to rain and your dress is not covered . ’ |
| 11 | If you take our recommended holiday insurance with the Eagle Star group and your baggage is not delivered within 12 hours from the time of arrival at your holiday destination due to delay or misdirection in delivery , you are covered up to £100 for essential purchases . |
| 12 | But their argument is not couched in these terms . |
| 13 | Bair discusses the de Beauvoir/Sartre relationship at length , but her study is not limited to this . |
| 14 | He was taken to the intensive care unit at the colony 's St Bernard 's Hospital but his life is not believed to be in danger . |
| 15 | The man who is said to be in his 40s and local was taken to the specialist burns unit at Whiston Hospital but his condition is not known . |
| 16 | Britain is the one country in the world which is a net exporter of spirits but our competitiveness is not helped by the high level of excise we have to pay . ’ |