Example sentences of "[indef pn] is not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Says Souness : ‘ I think you realise quite quickly if someone is not suited to playing for you or your club then you do what you have to do . ’
2 If he feels someone is not applying themselves 100 per cent , he wo n't spare reputations or ego — whoever you are .
3 Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) .
4 One is not comparing like with like , however , and the grammar schools had a slightly more advantaged intake , less ambiguity as to the goals of the school and had not suffered the upset of reorganisation .
5 But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it .
6 Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact .
7 But more important still , in making such statements one is not asserting anything that could conceivably be interpreted in terms of non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties of the objects concerned .
8 Years later the feminists were inspired by her most famous statement , ‘ One is not born a woman , one becomes one ’ , to conclude that the inferior status of ‘ the second sex ’ was not a natural phenomenon but a man-made one .
9 But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’
10 One is not prepared , however , for the discovery that Milner , so realist and clear-sighted about South Africa , was himself at the very same time an illusionist on a world scale .
11 ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . )
12 It takes time and patience to get these quiet slow spoken people to talk ; they must be sure that one is not trying to make a fool of them or mocking them .
13 Donald Fry , in his study , Children talk about books : seeing themselves as readers ( 1985 ) , has shown what can be done if one is not daunted by the ‘ unscientific ’ nature of small samples , limited ‘ controls ’ , speculation , and subjectivity .
14 False negatives seem to occur by a process of ignoring what one is not alerted to notice , as well as from emotional blockage . "
15 One is not completed before another is commenced .
16 Given this situation , one must perforce hypothesise , if one is not to remain mute .
17 But , in wrestling with it , it should be noted that one is not addressing the more fundamental question as to whether in fact feminism is compatible with Christianity .
18 In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like .
19 STAINI RACK NUUL Introspection ( sometimes prompted by birthdays ) that one is not living as one determined to live when one was very young ; or , on the other hand , realizing that one is living in a mode decided upon when one was very young and which is now no longer applicable or appropriate
20 Employee theft , after all , is impossible if one is not employed .
21 You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event .
22 One of the most important points of difference between language acquisition by human beings and the deficient parallel process in the case of the ape language experiments is , of course , that in the latter case one is not dealing with the acquisition by the young of a system employed already by conspecific elders .
23 Bryden tentatively argued that the latter correlation indicated that in terms of dichotic listening asymmetry one is not dealing with something under genetic control " .
24 The exact date of this one is not known , but they were patented by Robert Archibald in 1858 .
25 We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism !
26 It might provide a temporary suspension of concern about school work , being bullied , or growing up ( or feeling one is not growing up ) .
27 It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for .
28 One is not going to run into any social or economic or moral consequences of quasars , but you will , if you work in DNA replication erm and other areas of the physical sciences .
29 In many ways this is an understandable attitude to adopt , because it means that one is not forcing one 's moral decisions on someone else .
30 But , and to repeat the point , in assigning cases to a category one is not measuring the property except in some very truncated sense of the term .
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