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

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1 It is important to realize that when the speaker uses an ethical statement to express an attitude , the hearer who agrees or dissents is not agreeing to , or dissenting from , any claim to the effect that the speaker has the attitude .
2 Thus , the introduction of inventory ordering by retailers from wholesalers or manufacturers is not introduced — though this is a rapidly growing application for viewdata .
3 However , under the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 , riding of bicycles on footways associated with road carriageways or footpaths is not allowed .
4 A woman who feels ignored all evening because her husband is preoccupied with his own thoughts or interests is not going to be interested in love-making when she goes to bed .
5 The acceptability of wishes and attitudes is not based upon such conformity , though of course they normally lead to the effort to produce it .
6 A full cognitive understanding of the constancy of gender across time , space and circumstances is not reached until 8 or 9 years ( Kohlberg 1966 ) , but gender reassignment is usually only possible in the first two or three years ( Money and Ehrhardt 1972 ) .
7 Exactly how the controlling group agrees on common interests and actions is not specified , though the implication is of some quasi-conspiratorial corporatist process .
8 All this fun and games is not looked upon with disapproval by the seniors in the Conservative Party .
9 The variety of dialects and registers is not given any attention and there is no discussion of the many features of discourse in the text .
10 The possibility that so-called gender differences in participation reflect differences in the ‘ openness ’ or responsiveness of institutions to women and men is not explored in the malestream approach .
11 As Fielding has shown ( 1988b ) , what counts as good police work to ordinary policemen and women is not determined by official standards of performance , but by a range of contextual factors .
12 The existence of a sharply bipolar division of affluent and under-classes is not demonstrated by evidence from our locales when anything other then consumption is taken into account .
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