Example sentences of "since it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have remarked on its dominance in Oxford English , and a generation ago it was given magisterial expression in Northrop Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism , which aspired to a ‘ scientific ’ criticism where there would be no place for evaluation , since it is not nobler to study stars than earthworms . |
| 2 | Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved , especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board . |
| 3 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 4 | When a plant or animal dies it ceases to participate in carbon exchange with the biosphere and no longer takes in 14 C. If 14 C were stable , its concentration relative to 12 C would remain constant after death , but , since it is not . |
| 5 | His claim for the trust can no longer be offset against that debt , since it is not owed . |
| 6 | Availability is less meaningful as a measure of performance since it is not possible to be sure the plant would be available to produce full load unless it is actually in operation , which proves whether or not it is working satisfactorily . |
| 7 | In applying such a test , no jury should require expert evidence , since it is not the psychological or sociological effect , but the moral effect that must be considered , in accordance with their own experience as responsible adults . |
| 8 | Remember also , that a licence may be required to use this type of device since it is not handheld — if in doubt , consult your local water company . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the camera is not really suitable for fish photography since it is not able to focus on close objects . |
| 10 | It is assumed that the UK group satisfies the small group criteria in s 249 and since it is not an ineligible group for the purposes of s 248 , it need not prepare group accounts . |
| 11 | Only designs suitable for tuck can be used , since it is not possible to tuck two needles together even when tucking alternate rows . |
| 12 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 13 | In the building industry , not only in France but also in Sweden , West Germany , Italy , as well as in Britain , the main body was ( and still is ) both an employers ' and a trade association since it is not easy to separate the negotiation of wages from matters such as agreed arrangements for contract tendering . |
| 14 | This would n't be surprising in some ways , since it is not clear that the visual system is organized in the same way in all species . |
| 15 | To claim money as a major human goal is not to make any specific claim about ‘ human nature ’ ( such as its mercenariness ) since it is not so much a goal in itself but the facilitator of almost all possible human goals — expressive , artistic , acquisitive or whatever . |
| 16 | Since it is not involved in the management of the company it is in a position to monitor and check the performance of the executives actually managing the company , to ensure that they act only in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 17 | Although the European Community as a body can not be party to the Berne Convention ( since it is not a nation state ) , the Convention nevertheless specifically concerns the EC . |
| 18 | Although real cream cheese may be made from real cream it is n't real cheese , since it is not a curd but simply ripened cream , semi-solidified and drained of its fluid content . |
| 19 | In a sense , this is an affectation , since it is not necessary to wear jeans , baseball boots , studded leather jackets and ear-rings to devise good advertisements , but good creative people are sufficiently rare and expensive for agency managers to be prepared to pander to most of their foibles . |
| 20 | It is the only castle I have been to which has a front doorbell , which you need to pull on if you want to see round since it is not automatically open to visitors . |
| 21 | Since it is not possible to get inside the heads of actors , the discovery of meaning must be based on interpretation and intuition . |
| 22 | Since it is not at the moment clear how general this type of sociolinguistic pattern might be , any attempt at explanation is premature ; however , it is probably possible to relate the narrow range characteristic of the higher-status speakers ' pattern to parallel structural tendencies in languages which have undergone processes of standardization ( Milroy and Milroy 1985a , chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 23 | Since it is not possible to handle statistical issues in any detail in a general account of sociolinguistic methodology , I shall concentrate in this section on picking out general principles of particular relevance to sociolinguists , referring as appropriate to more specialist treatments . |
| 24 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
| 25 | Thirdly , when patients are funded privately in NHS pay beds data are collected by regional health authorities as part of their NHS monitoring , but the information is not passed on to purchasers since it is not covered by contracts . |
| 26 | This new complex is specifically induced by the immune antisera since it is not present when the pre-immune serum is used ( Figure 1 , panel B ) . |
| 27 | the organisation , since it is not rigidly structured , is capable of adapting quickly to meet change ; however , the success in adapting will depend on the luck or judgement of the key individuals who make the rapid decisions ; and |
| 28 | The often-repeated criticism made of elite and traditional theorists that they assume what they should be proving — namely the distribution of power — may from this perspective be seen to miss the point of elite analysis , since it is not typically concerned with the question of whether the minority that exercises power is a significant proportion of the entire population . |
| 29 | A threat expressed in the form ‘ if I catch you when there are no police about ’ addressed to an adversary is not caught by the section , since it is not a threat of such as to cause the victim of it to believe that he will be the object of ‘ immediate ’ violence . |
| 30 | In some situations this type of abrupt and complete switch-over is necessary since it is not possible to have both old and new methods running side by side ( for example in switching over from driving on one side of the road to the other as in Sweden ) . |