Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matching the job to the person will ensure that he or she is not overloaded and makes an effective contribution to the enterprise . |
| 2 | The first do n't is not to believe that the child is lazy because he or she is not managing to spell . |
| 3 | The Board is obliged to publicise the escrow account the balance of which is paid to the person if he or she is not convicted or at the end of the five year period . |
| 4 | From birth , the baby and infant imbibes moral values and learns to control instinctual wishes so that he or she is not chastised by parents , or other agents of socialization . |
| 5 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 6 | However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school . |
| 7 | While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner . |
| 8 | Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device . |
| 9 | But teasing should n't contain too much truth or it is n't teasing any more , it 's … it 's … ’ |
| 10 | In so doing , any hint of attempted indoctrination , conditioning , manipulation , even influencing and persuading , is misplaced because this dimension can only be grasped in freedom , or it is not grasped at all . |
| 11 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 12 | If your hair looks much straighter and flatter than usual the conditioner is either too heavy for your particular type of hair type or it is not washed out properly . |
| 13 | While it is a good idea to have something in which you feel confident and comfortable , and which is not getting ‘ tired ’ , it may have disadvantages . |
| 14 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 15 | Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze showed that the USSR had not forgotten the ZOPFAN impulse in informing Sitthi that ‘ there can be no calm or stability in a region in which there exist foreign military bases and which is not protected from the military rivalry of non-regional powers ’ . |
| 16 | Any empirical study ( a category to which lexical semantics , as outlined in this book , undoubtedly belongs ) must rest , at some point , on a body of primary data , whose factuality is not questioned , and which is not subjected to further analysis . |
| 17 | Following Dressler and Wodak ( 1982 ) he distinguishes phonological variation resulting from connected speech processes from a more general type of linguistic variation which correlates with speaker variables such as sex or social status and which is not restricted to phonological systems . |
| 18 | Before writing The First Wives Club , she was an author of children 's books ( and she is not telling who ) ; before that , a marketing executive , a role , she says , which instructed her in the ‘ fear and loathing ’ with which corporate America regards women , and the depths to which it will stoop to deny them equal status . |
| 19 | I think we have to recognise Angela 's concern if er a subject area that she 's trying to present , present and she is not precluding you from doing what you 've got |
| 20 | He/she will check that the mare has passed all her afterbirth and she is not damaged as a result of foaling . |
| 21 | She is not afraid of me , and she is not crying . |
| 22 | She smiles but her face is strained , and she is not smiling at me . |
| 23 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
| 24 | There is no compulsion to go to every dinner and one is not expected to do so . |
| 25 | I have come home and there is not left me a place on which to pitch my lodge . |
| 26 | ‘ No , and he is n't staying in the same hotel . ’ |
| 27 | Ditka , with a history of heart problems , has seen his team 's NFL record slump to 4–6 with three consecutive defeats — and he is n't taking it lying down . |
| 28 | And he is n't joking . |
| 29 | ‘ Well I do n't believe you did and he is n't going to be able to prove it . ’ |
| 30 | Not that we can find , and he is n't saying . |