Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [is] not " in BNC.

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1 Whether tasks are undertaken individually or collaboratively is not so important .
2 More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s .
3 But yet , the steady increase in the divorce rate over the last fifteen years or so is not the simple consequence of attending women 's studies classes .
4 But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge .
5 Whether this is generally true or not is not strictly relevant to attempts to heighten or maintain interest in a case .
6 There are a hundred and seventy thousand people in Scotland who qualify for income support , whether they get it or not is not the point , but that 's the size of the problem .
7 But whether the premises are true or not is not a question that can be settled by an appeal to logic .
8 An intention to return sooner or later is not such an intent : Warner ( 1970 ) 55 Cr App R 93 .
9 But a woman 's success or otherwise is not within her control .
10 Any increase in price per person payable as a result of a part cancellation is not a Cancellation Charge and so is not covered by Norwich Union Insurance .
11 She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’
12 DOWNING Street insists that President-elect Bill Clinton is not angry with the British Government and so is not snubbing John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month .
13 The £8,000 is a past cost and so is not relevant to the decision .
14 In the case of the police car , my belief fails to track the truth in both ways , and so is not knowledge .
15 If he chooses to give way and pay , rather than obtain the decision of the court on the question whether the money is due , his payment is regarded as voluntary and so is not recoverable : see e.g. , William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 .
16 ESPRIT has not yet reached a Common Position and so is not among the five ; however , it is extremely likely that its timetable will also be affected .
17 And so is not theirs to give away at all .
18 The replacement , voted against by Opposition MPs but passed because of the Government majority , does not , however , allow the penalties to be imposed against electricity suppliers which fail to promote electricity efficiency , and so is not as strong as the Lords ' amendment .
19 This is because in the first case the interest earned at the end of the first month can be reinvested in the second month ; in the second case , the whole interest does not accrue until the end of the second month and so is not available for reinvestment until then .
20 However , this is a one-dimensional spectrum with respect to the component of the wave number in the mean flow direction , and so is not in general a complete determination of the spectral characteristics or of E(k) .
21 Learning plays a minor role in communicating and apparently is not itself affected by it .
22 WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof .
23 Human science was not , and still is not , able to predict all its effects .
24 Yet there never was , — and still is not , a trade union at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ .
25 Disjunct endemism refers to a type of regionally restricted distribution of a fossil taxon in which two or more component parts are separated by a major physical barrier and hence is not readily explicable in terms of present-day geography .
26 Whether this is true in developed countries is yet to be seen : although Ellison 's 1932 study in the United Kingdom is consistent with the results in figure 1 , it preceded immunisation and antibiotics and hence is not comparable in 1992 .
27 The water available depends upon the amount of water that infiltrates and becomes available for pedogenesis compared with that which is removed by surface flow and hence is not available .
28 The first of these influences represents the influence of aggregate demand since the key term , m t , is an economy-wide average : its influence is not specific to one particular market — it affects all markets and hence is not indexed on .
29 This is a wonderful work , but the part which deals with leases is now nearly forty years old , and frankly is not sufficient to cover post-war developments .
30 Here and now is not the time .
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