Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank and building society managers are supposed to be approachable : if yours is not then change to another branch . |
| 2 | Of course , it is not just audit regulation that has been under scrutiny in 1992 . |
| 3 | ‘ According to the latest research in the United States , it is not just stress that is bad for you . |
| 4 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |
| 5 | ‘ Company of The Year ’ , the premier title won by Rentokil in the CBI 's Business Enterprise Award , it is not easily come by . |
| 6 | Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface . |
| 7 | While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends . |
| 8 | Then Braque has capitalized on the element of ambiguity in the Demoiselles ( it is not immediately clear for instance whether the leg of the ‘ demoiselle ’ on the left is the far leg or the near leg , and the lower part of the twisted forearm of the squatting figure is left undefined ) as a means of emphasizing the flatness of the canvas he was working on : the far buttock of the Nu is connected to the foremost leg and heightened in tone so that it appears to stand in front of the nearer part of the figure ; if the outline of the neck were extended it would not join the shoulder naturalistically but pass by its outer edge , and the fact that the outline is deliberately broken allows the neck , shoulder and arm to flow into each other and fuse . |
| 9 | It is not simply fish species which have suffered from lake acidification . |
| 10 | When one studies the literature one finds that , surprising as it may seem , the weight of legal opinion is in favour of the second view ; and it is not even clear what is the proper legal means that the Crown should use to establish misbehaviour before dismissing a judge . |
| 11 | It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task . |
| 12 | It is not altogether clear why . |
| 13 | But it is not altogether clear what part dietary habits play . |
| 14 | But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared . |
| 15 | It is not wholly clear that the Act has the effect intended for it . |
| 16 | It is not yet know how the oil which soaked into the stones will affect their long-term weathering . |
| 17 | ‘ My dear Wilson , ’ he said , ‘ all you need to know is that it is not yet come . |
| 18 | When there is a great wish for something to be true but the evidence for it is not yet complete , it can require great strength to resist the pressure to say more than the data warrant . |
| 19 | The sky is already a clear , broad blue but it is not yet warm enough to tempt the thin mist from the fields and hedges . |
| 20 | In summary , it is not yet clear that a modification of the daily rhythms is a necessary requirement of treatment or that an abnormality of the body clock is the cause of the disorder . |
| 21 | Rulings made by the European Court of Justice now mean that pension schemes run by employers should not discriminate between men and women on grounds of age , but it is not yet clear what the consequences of these rulings will be . |
| 22 | We wish to preface our discussion of syndromes involving abnormal language development with the disclaimer that , while these categories may delineate separate psychiatric categories , it is not yet clear that each of these categories represents a unique type of linguistic disorder . |
| 23 | It is not yet clear why the activity becomes so much more pronounced as the nucleus is approached , although there are several possible explanations . |
| 24 | However , it is not yet clear that the use of a fixation stimulus does not introduce as many difficulties as it seeks to eliminate . |
| 25 | A number of explanations for these results are available , but it is not yet clear which explanations are correct . |
| 26 | It is not yet clear what kind of agreements the six republics might be able to reach about future co-operation , but they will certainly not be on the old basis . |
| 27 | But no link is suggested between them , and it is not yet clear what the point of the essay is . |
| 28 | But it is not yet clear what new job opportunities the development will mean . |
| 29 | It is not only labour that the economic power of Bangkok is sucking out of the north-east . |
| 30 | It is not merely Syrinx |