Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a spectacle , this is not notably picturesque , |
| 2 | This is not normally possible with apartments . |
| 3 | There is a fourth possibility , but this is not primarily monetary policy . |
| 4 | This is not simply one make of computer — there are literally hundreds of different makes , available with a wide range of choices of memory , storage and screen . |
| 5 | This is not simply innate or pure ability , but ability which has been developed through the process of the curriculum ; not merely the ‘ good mind ’ but the ‘ trained mind ’ ( See Chapter 4 ) . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ This is not simply another initiative to beautify the environment but a serious effort to unlock potential in areas such as Stockton High Street , where the Labour Council have so obviously failed the people of Stockton . ’ |
| 7 | While this is not conceptually difficult many trainees are reluctant to give up labels that they believe are common sense shorthand . |
| 8 | Additionally there is a general entitlement to a ‘ Disturbance Payment ’ for persons who are not entitled to compensation , and local authorities are given a duty ‘ to secure the provision of suitable alternative accommodation where this is not otherwise available on reasonable terms , for any person displaced from residential accommodation ’ by acquisition . |
| 9 | Stress , stimulating certain hormones , may produce a small increase in metabolic rate , but this is not yet certain . |
| 10 | Although Kruger would eventually like to target consumers and the breakfast table market , he said that this was not possible at the moment — some form of docking station would be needed to make the proposition viable , and this is not yet available . |
| 11 | And this is not altogether surprising ; for Dorothy Pound seems to have been English in a singularly entire and uncompromising fashion . |
| 12 | This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation — break-up of skeletons after death , the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment , and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains . |
| 13 | Given its inherent advantages however , this is not altogether surprising and the commercial and residential property markets have responded quickly and emphatically to LDDC 's pump-priming activities . |
| 14 | But this is not altogether relevant for although Cordelia is essentially a fine character and her sisters mainly corrupt , there are the opposites ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in both of them . |
| 15 | However , interpreting their actions nowadays suggests to us that this is not altogether true . |
| 16 | This is not wholly untrue , but it is difficult to accept the view that the French and Germans were decisively more humane in the Dark Ages than Italians , Spaniards or Englishmen . |
| 17 | I think this is not wholly responsible for a certain effect of fussiness in the drapery and slackness of form compared to the contemporary marble metopes of Olympia ( figs. 121–3 ) . |
| 18 | We may agree that this is not wholly satisfactory . |
| 19 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 20 | This is not wholly satisfactory , as often the terms of the second mortgage are not sufficiently clear for the husband to enforce them ; it necessitates a separate form of receipt on redemption ; and it leaves the husband effectively without any title documents ( as these are held by the first mortgagee ) although he can of course have marked abstracts . |
| 21 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 22 | This is not just technological tinkering , according to Lois Dimpfel , PS Director with the Personal Systems Programming Centre at Boca Raton . |
| 23 | This is not just technological tinkering , according to Lois Dimpfel , PS Director with the Personal Systems Programming Centre at Boca Raton . |
| 24 | This is not just legal nicety — Highlander has in the past been the victim of terrorist attacks , a fact which had led to difficulty in enabling Highlander to obtain a satisfactory insurance cover on the property . |
| 25 | This is not just some fanciful theory . |
| 26 | But this is not just any conference : it 's apparently going to be the greatest ever gathering of world leaders in one place at one time . |
| 27 | This is not just genetic drift but a process whereby the entire structural basis of an organism is determined along particular lines ( not to be confused with rectilinearity ) of development . |
| 28 | This is not just pretty picnic food ; Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour . |
| 29 | ‘ This is not just another retro classic to be purchased as decorative furniture by nostalgia buffs , ’ say Matamp . |
| 30 | The second round goes to the organisation because this is not just another shop . |