Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |
| 2 | If you have n't got any issue but parents or fore brother or sister or the issue of that say it 's your nephews or nieces and you 've still got a spouse of course , she still is n't get She or he is still not going to get the whole lot . |
| 3 | ‘ We need to get back towards the Victorian days of discipline ’ says Dr Boyson in one of his attacks on ‘ permissiveness ’ , and he is certainly not alone among Tory fundamentalists in fondly remembering the glories of empire , child labour and workhouse in Queen Victoria 's reign . |
| 4 | Well , of course Gordon has the sort of Liverpool record which one has to respect and he is certainly not the man to argue with . |
| 5 | Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations . |
| 6 | For example , it is not clear how far the model of past family life with which recent trends are being compared , was really widespread in American society , and it is also not clear what criteria can legitimately be used to judge whether child-rearing patterns past and present are desirable or undesirable . |
| 7 | Many trailers are dangerous much above 80 k.p.h. ( 50 m.p.h. ) and it is just not worth taking any chances going much faster . |
| 8 | As you can imagine , she receives many requests of this nature , and it is simply not possible for her to respond positively to them all . ’ |
| 9 | If not , then the notion of the sum of the value of the parts is not clear cut , and it is similarly not clear cut what is involved in the value of the whole not being the same as this sum . |
| 10 | Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies . |
| 11 | The authorities do not require other methods of recovery to be tested , and it is therefore not always possible to be sure whether using the aileron , for instance , will flatten the spin and make it more difficult to stop . |
| 12 | Unlike many antibiotics , the antifungal agents commonly used are not absorbed from the gut and it is therefore not effective just to give tablets or capsules by mouth . |
| 13 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 14 | Throughout Iranian thought there was a tendency to dualism , and it is therefore not surprising that two distinct forms or aspects of time were recognized : indivisible time , that is the eternal ‘ now ’ , and time that is divisible into successive parts . |
| 15 | Consequently , all translations of carpet names and terms are strictly phonetic , and it is therefore not surprising to find wide variations in the spellings of individual towns , weaving groups and designs . |
| 16 | Having to work from different angles makes it extremely difficult to maintain an even symmetry throughout the design , and it is therefore not surprising that nomadic rugs sometimes contain motifs of slightly varying sizes ; the fact that so many are perfectly balanced and symmetrical is a glowing testament to the weavers ' skill . |
| 17 | Modified accounts are not intended to give a fair and true view of the company and it is therefore not necessary for such accounts to comply with the disclosure provisions of SSAP . |
| 18 | It is obviously advantageous for an animal to receive more detailed information about where it is going to than about where it has come from , and it is therefore not surprising that as well as the mouth at the front end of the planaria there is a concentration of sense organs , such as light-sensitive eyepits , and to process the information arriving from these sense organs there is a group of ganglia concentrated in the head — forming at last the forerunners of real brains . |
| 19 | They testify to the fact that a colossal amount of wealth passed through royal hands , and it is therefore not surprising that control of the royal treasury was a significant factor in Merovingian politics . |
| 20 | ‘ If we let our children go when they are young , they are gone from us forever , and it is therefore not surprising when youngsters turn to childish misdemeanours and graduate to serious crime . ’ |
| 21 | The evolution of flight led to generally light and fragile skeletons , and it is perhaps not surprising that avian fossils are so uncommon , and when found , so often fragmentary . |
| 22 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 23 | Now it is standing at a huge sum , growing rapidly , and it is still not going where it is needed ’ . |
| 24 | This is especially noticeable at cocktail and dinner parties , and it is still not unusual for the ladies to move to a separate room after dinner . |
| 25 | But of course this varied from place to place , from time to time , and it is still not clear how far working-class men and women did accept the domesticated role of married women , even in the diluted version which social circumstances could allow to become part of their lives . |
| 26 | The county council started the EDDR almost 50 years ago and it is still not finished . |
| 27 | For instance , accountants and solicitors would normally both enquire into the terms of any leases or major contracts held by the target , and it is obviously not in the investor 's interest to retain both these advisers to carry out the same examination . |
| 28 | But it is not the whole story ; and it is certainly not the correct starting-point . |
| 29 | There are many reasons why we eat — and it is certainly not simply to satisfy the pangs of hunger . |
| 30 | At this stage , as Kristeva implies , an interest in , even a fascination with sex difference is very much a fact of our lives ; and it is certainly not a neutral fact . |