Example sentences of "[coord] so [be] not " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 ? ’
4 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 .
5 The £8,000 is a past cost and so is not relevant to the decision .
6 In the case of the police car , my belief fails to track the truth in both ways , and so is not knowledge .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And so is not theirs to give away at all .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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) .
13 According to the corpuscular theory these secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities arise from the arrangement , the ‘ texture ’ , of the solid , shaped , and mobile corpuscles which constitute gold , and so are not to be attributed to the corpuscles themselves .
14 But geometrical figures are not the only modes , and so are not the only things whose real essences we can know .
15 This group of ‘ uncounted unemployed ’ is likely to consist largely of women and school-leavers who have not worked before and so are not eligible for unemployment benefit .
16 This variation might either be because these forms are tied in some way to a particular kind of context and so are not freely transferable , or because the second context imposes inhibiting conditions which prevent learners from accessing and applying what they know .
17 They are not Undead , and so are not kept at bay by a Zone of Sanctuary .
18 Hamilton argued that , because selection is stronger on earlier ages , alleles with advantageous effects early in life would be more likely to be fixed by selection than those with a later age of action , an argument that implies that populations are continually adapting , and so are not in equilibrium .
19 Many of the founders of sociology believed it would be possible to create a science of society based upon the same principles and procedures as the natural sciences such as chemistry and biology , even though the natural sciences often deal with inanimate matter and so are not concerned with feeling , emotions and other subjective states .
20 Using utilisation data to derive age weights suffers from similar problems to those outlined for weighting standardised mortality ratio , though they are at least derived from individual as opposed to area based data and so are not subject to the ecological fallacy .
21 Cassie found herself looking down on her as she passed and so was not able to see her properly .
22 Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention .
23 Representatives of foreign governments were persuaded to give large sums to the contras , but were not asked directly , so the story went , and so were not solicited .
24 But the first two pairs were on adjacent lanes three and four and so were not affected by any inequality in the lanes .
25 This was particularly difficult for malaria , because the parasites could not be grown in vitro , and so were not easily available .
26 The morning rehearsals each day were a Tiller rule not demanded by the management and so were not paid for .
27 Small children were still very much ‘ seen and not heard ’ , and so were not usually produced downstairs until after nursery tea ; then , ultra-clean and uncomfortable visits to the grown-ups took place in rooms which bore no resemblance to their cosy everyday nursery world .
28 The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests .
29 Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises .
30 Thus , for example , the items get , next , never did not show the phonetic range of variation characteristic of the /Ε/; class in Belfast and so were not counted as tokens of ( Ε ) ; in fact , they varied between [ Ε ] and [ ? ] , forming a small phonolexical set of which the total membership can not easily be specified .
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