Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not normally any corresponding selection on males to be choosy about who they mate with . |
| 2 | A potential market might exist when there is not yet any such market in existence . |
| 3 | It is thus evident that the fall of Magnentius and the subsequent zeal of Paulus had an effect on the Britons and their estates , but its extent is difficult to quantify , since there is not yet enough large-scale excavation of villas and other rural establishments using modern refined techniques . |
| 4 | Gould is on the Fabians ' executive committee , while Smith and Beckett are mere members , and Prescott is not even that . |
| 5 | It is not even that difficult to set up an associated airline company given the leasing arrangements organized by financial institutions and the aircraft producers , and the developed secondhand market in airliners . |
| 6 | When it comes down to specifics , there is not even any real consensus between the political parties about the state 's duty to secure the civil , political and social elements of citizenship identified by Marshall . |
| 7 | For example , the young reader needs to understand the idea of ‘ sequencing ’ — the idea that a series of pictures can tell a story , that Quentin Blake 's Mister Magnolia is not just many separate , entertaining pictures ( such as Dick Bruna 's b is for bear ) but that the pictures are telling a story . |
| 8 | And the weakness of these works is not just that Hall can not integrate ‘ arty ’ steps into jazz without them looking like destitute cliches , it is that his dancers are not adequately trained to look comfortable in mainstream styles . |
| 9 | It is not just that high myth looks down towards low present reality . |
| 10 | ‘ But it is not just that , ’ he adds . |
| 11 | But it is not just that access to the increased educational facilities is conditioned by social background , even where people achieve educational mobility , the economic structure has not provided a corresponding increase in jobs to match that mobility in occupational terms . |
| 12 | Even the woman who detests fashion or ‘ artificial ’ aids to beauty will still create an image , and even the perception of ‘ ugliness ’ can still fall within the realm of the Queen of Beauty , for beauty is not just that which is lovely , and charming , but includes much more . |
| 13 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 14 | But it is not just that , on the theory , statements like ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ become untrustworthy . |
| 15 | The problem is not just that MOX reactors provide only a narrow channel for disposing of military plutonium , or that the channel will be clogged by the plutonium from uneconomic civil reprocessing programmes . |
| 16 | It is not just that AIDS has removed famous names — the rock star Freddy Mercury , the jazzman Miles Davis , the pianist Yuri Egorov , dancers like Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn . |
| 17 | The reason is not just that international affairs are hard to reduce to intellectual order , perhaps because they are changing character even as one tries . |
| 18 | It is not just that , as it happens , some sentences are of this special sort . |
| 19 | The problem is not just that buckminsterfullerene forms , but that it does so with such efficiency . |
| 20 | In other words , it is not just that elderly women experience a higher incidence of poverty according to the social assistance measure of poverty . |
| 21 | It is not just that other large corporations ( like Grumman Aircraft , Ford and Chrysler ) become involved but a whole host of subcontractors , trade associations and local business and community groups become enmeshed . |
| 22 | What interests me as a social anthropologist is not just that human beings behave in a lot of different unexpected ways but that the patterning of these differences of behaviour also varies ; and it is the continuities and the variations in these underlying patterns which are the real focus of my interest . |
| 23 | However , it is not just that poetry may differ statistically from ordinary language , but , more significantly , that the devices of poetry foreground phonic elements that are usually ignored in practical speech . |
| 24 | The claim here is not just that market coordination is necessarily anarchic . |
| 25 | The turnover is not just that of the companies involved but of the groups to which they belong . |
| 26 | But it is not just this personality clash that is driving Solidarity-as-we-know-it to extinction . |
| 27 | And it is not just those with larger loans who can make great savings . |
| 28 | This is not just some fanciful theory . |
| 29 | As Charles observes : ‘ If you want an insight into why Diana is not just some sort of spoilt toff it is because we had very contrasting lifestyles . |
| 30 | What is really needed to clinch things is not just more data , but some sign of the Zo particle , which , if the electroweak theory is correct , should also be produced . |