Example sentences of "[coord] [is] not [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Efforts are initially made to persuade the parents to bring up the child at home , but where this does not prove successful or is not considered a wise step , some form of full-time residential care is required .
2 Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement .
3 Like Wilkie , 50% is the magic proportion that Richet hopes see going to non-IBM sources in the medium term , but he frankly acknowledges that ‘ we have a credibility gap as a supplier to other companies , ’ that will only close once potential customers realise that IBM is serious about the business and is not entering the market as a temporary expedient to use over-capacity .
4 In my constituency it has stimulated the introduction of three new generating plants , two of them based at oil terminals at Shell haven , where the oil industry welcomes the progress of moves towards gas and is not mounting a rearguard action against it , as the coal industry seems to be doing .
5 She said : ‘ The Government says it wants to reduce tobacco consumption by 40 per cent by the year 2000 , but it has refused to ban tobacco advertising and is not making the most of its other weapon . ’
6 She said : ‘ The Government says it wants to reduce tobacco consumption by 40 per cent by the year 2000 , but it has refused to ban tobacco advertising and is not making the most of its other weapon . ’
7 But is it not necessary sometimes to inflict violence and is not killing the only course open to a man in certain circumstances ?
8 The president has kept the SSC in the budget , but is not providing the amount of money required to allow the programme to follow its original schedule .
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