Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world . |
| 2 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 3 | As a result it is not unusual to see people doing things which increase the risk of serious damage if things go wrong . |
| 4 | As a result it is not worth discussing them fully here . |
| 5 | Due to the diversity of Club 18–30 's programme it is not , unfortunately , possible to give information on each of the countries featured in this brochure . |
| 6 | It the belief becomes current in public opinion that in the arguments between government and opposition it is not really a matter of opposing opinions being presented , then the impression will increasingly gain currency that parliamentary discussions are just a game . |
| 7 | Contrasting Mr Donovan 's distress with that of victims of industrial injury , the judge said : ‘ You should have in mind it is not a case where you are awarding damages for someone who has suffered some physical injuries which will be with him for the rest of his days . |
| 8 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 9 | When it sings and blossoms in the spring it is not happy ; it merely does what its genes tell it to do . |
| 10 | Where we are reimbursing another insurance company in respect of their outlay it is not necessary to obtain sight of the original invoice . |
| 11 | The new developments in information skills are still primarily research-led and because of the slowness of dissemination and take-up of work based on research it is not clear what the impact will be of this work on library practice . |
| 12 | However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management . |
| 13 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 14 | This means that the individual items in each notebook can rarely be dated with any precision and that notes in one notebook may , and often do , presuppose plans in another ; even within single notebooks it is not always possible to determine whether items in a sequence belong together . |
| 15 | In the course of one short chapter it is not possible , nor indeed necessary , to do more than suggest the richness of the material which , with a little study , can be interpreted to throw light on former ages . |
| 16 | Like the last chapter it is not meant for hasty consumption immediately before the fray . |
| 17 | Although curtains are sometimes made up in this fabric it is not always satisfactory as it can be rather stiff . |
| 18 | For example , in considering how much to reduce lead emissions from cars it is not impossible to calculate the marginal social cost of producing cars with anti-pollution exhaust systems and the marginal social cost of cars that use more fuel per mile . |
| 19 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 20 | Since these extremists had been principally responsible for the detailed organisation of the march it is not surprising that there were no serious plans to control it , or to ensure that it went off peacefully . |
| 21 | In the course of this conflict it is shown that whilst much of the relevant legislation — for example , on school admissions — may emphasise individual parents ' rights , in practice it is not always easy to accommodate them . |
| 22 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 23 | Under this practice it is not possible to draw any meaningful distinction between ‘ formal ’ or ‘ informal ’ service , or between service ‘ accepted voluntarily ’ and ‘ enforced ’ service . |
| 24 | As we shall see , in practice it is not necessary to write down the matrices unc merely perform simple operations with the rows of A and I in ( 1 ) , which is all the matrices unc do . |
| 25 | In theory , this sounds quite simple , but in practice it is not so . |
| 26 | But the projections on which the " cut " is based far exceed six others from expert groups and serve to make the target look like a reduction when in practice it is not . |
| 27 | In practice it is not usually important to mark pauses at the beginning and end of a passage ; in the rest of the book I put no lines on short examples and only single lines around longer ones ; the boundaries within a passage are much more important . |
| 28 | It pretends that the court is able to investigate those reasons in great depth , whereas in practice it is not able to do so , and in any event that investigation is not going to save the marriage . |
| 29 | As an early domestic melodrama it is not without interest , but this sermonising evening is , frankly , a slog with only fitful rewards along the way . |
| 30 | In these ordered relationships it is not possible to alter the order of the clauses . |