Example sentences of "it is not [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to release 2.2 for Sparc ( although it is not officially calling it that ) , and that should be up on all new systems from May .
2 It is not easy watching someone you love die , and Robert Burrows went through a phase of doubt and anxiety which is part of the process of letting go but can be particularly hard for Christians to accept .
3 When one studies the literature one finds that , surprising as it may seem , the weight of legal opinion is in favour of the second view ; and it is not even clear what is the proper legal means that the Crown should use to establish misbehaviour before dismissing a judge .
4 It is not completely settled what is the meaning in Rule 1 of ‘ an unconditional contract .
5 It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task .
6 But it is not altogether clear what part dietary habits play .
7 The relationship between citation and use is particularly complicated , and it is not yet known what factors determine which items in a collection will be read or cited and the relative importance of age among them .
8 It is not yet known what form this report will take but one can presume that a national format will be designed eventually .
9 It is not yet known what commitment Darlington Health Authority will make to day to day staffing and running costs .
10 A number of explanations for these results are available , but it is not yet clear which explanations are correct .
11 Rulings made by the European Court of Justice now mean that pension schemes run by employers should not discriminate between men and women on grounds of age , but it is not yet clear what the consequences of these rulings will be .
12 It is not yet clear what kind of agreements the six republics might be able to reach about future co-operation , but they will certainly not be on the old basis .
13 But no link is suggested between them , and it is not yet clear what the point of the essay is .
14 But it is not yet clear what new job opportunities the development will mean .
15 It is not generally realised what a tiny percentage of our current dollar bill would be sufficient to buy another 100,000 houses ' worth of dollar timber .
16 As such it is not only reworking its own field , but putting new questions and new evidence into the general work of the social sciences .
17 It is not enough to give him the facts .
18 There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements .
19 It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways .
20 It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere .
21 It is not entirely clear what its Darwinian purpose is , but it certainly must have one , for the beavers expend so much time and energy to build it .
22 It is not entirely clear what females gain from this choice , but there are several ideas .
23 Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions .
24 In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall .
25 It is not entirely clear what factors the court must take into account when creating the hypothetical similar child .
26 It is not really clear what is the role of the National Bank of Yugoslavia .
27 One disadvantage of intuitive decision-making , or of ‘ leaps in the dark ’ if Birkenhead 's phraseology is preferred , is that it is not always clear what they are intended to achieve .
28 Many of these management activities would occur automatically in best-practice private companies , spurred on by managers adopting broad views of their briefs , although it is not always clear what motivates the manager to behave in this way — perhaps the operation of the managerial labour market ?
29 Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value .
30 However , it is not always clear what is being measured in a given situation .
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