Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected . |
| 3 | Friedman and Rosenman ( 1974 ) suggest that it is not a question of getting rid of Type-A behaviour , rather that we should learn to manage it . |
| 4 | In fact , however , international comparisons strongly suggest that it is not the most downtrodden and deprived who provide the most militant source of protest . |
| 5 | This growth in women 's propensity to take paid work probably has both economic and social origins , but our analyses of fertility suggest that it is not an important explanatory factor in the ‘ baby bust ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I suggest that it is not a matter which a man wishes his employer to know about . ’ |
| 7 | Summala ( 1984 ) , however , suggest that it is not the detection of signs but memory for them which is likely to be faulty . |
| 8 | The figures in Table 7 suggest that there is not a great deal of difference in the use of educational facilities by one and two parent families ; lone parents make more use of day nurseries and two parents of play groups . |
| 9 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you know that there is n't a bus till dawn ? ’ he rasped . |
| 11 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 12 | But she must know that it is n't clever to be asked to leave a country while on assignment . |
| 13 | Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing . |
| 14 | He should know that it is not the Government who take action in these matters , but the Attorney-General . |
| 15 | His breathing is laboured in that heavy way which so often heralds the end , and as you grip his hand to let him know that he is not alone , you try to love him as the Lord himself would do . |
| 16 | Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction . |
| 17 | The male garden spider Araneus diadematus will vibrate a strand of the female 's web as he approaches her , to let her know that he is not just another small insect caught in the web . |
| 18 | Both its generic name Sciadopitys and its English name refer to the strap-shaped leaves which are arranged in whorls like the spokes of an umbrella , although it must be stressed that it is not a true pine . |
| 19 | It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions . |
| 20 | There must be some gain to the citizen , however minimal , in living under a constitution which regularises the way in which power is exercised ; even where government is authoritarian , it matters that it is not arbitrary . |
| 21 | But I want all my friends to know that there is not any weakening of affection . |
| 22 | I understand ; I mean , you want to know that someone is n't just making the whole thing up when they talk about a man being that special to them . |
| 23 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 24 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 25 | ‘ Old enough , I think , to know that it is not . ’ |
| 26 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 27 | Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation . |
| 28 | As with any evasion , the horse can not be expected to know that he is not supposed to do it . |
| 29 | They propose that it is not , in fact , inherently dysfunctional and should be valued as something positive and authentic : different , not inferior . |
| 30 | Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners . |