Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] or " in BNC.

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1 The paradoxically low reading in hyperosmolar states despite good technique is highlighted in the datasheet supplied with the BM-Test-1–44 ( though not mentioned in the Ames sheet ) but is not generally recognised or taught .
2 Implicit information is not generally codified or recorded , and is usually acquired by workers over several years of on-the-job experience .
3 Inevitably it has qualitative differences and is not easily written or smoothly integrated into the ‘ isms ’ or historical categories of the discipline .
4 The move follows criticism that the register of such items , the V & A list , is not widely publicised or readily available .
5 Sabine is not here to confirm or deny their conversation , and neither can she confirm or deny how much of her work went into the Durances .
6 We then consider the more usual problem facing us : how to test the rational expectations hypothesis when the expected variable is not directly observed or measured .
7 Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist .
8 More urban patients attended a hospital based diabetic clinic and this may be one reason why such patients had less unrecognised retinopathy , although hospital attendance is not always welcomed or thought necessary by patients .
9 Her working-class male counterpart is not usually ridiculed or disapproved of in this way , as someone whose language is inappropriate .
10 The plaintiff must go further and show that the doctor is not suitably qualified or that the examination is not necessary or that he has a reasonable apprehension about the particular doctor which , if realised , might make a fair trial more difficult than if another doctor were to examine him .
11 The very different case of a generalized division , between ‘ creators ’ and ‘ spectators ’ , may in part be influenced by such relations , but is not fully generated or confirmed there .
12 We find that the nature of art and its relation to human life and welfare is not sufficiently understood or appreciated in this country .
13 The very words used to describe a beautiful garden — ‘ a riot of colour ’ — suggests that beauty is not necessarily regimented or politely colour co-ordinated .
14 You should enter a package name which is not currently approved or quit the option .
15 Where the husband is not legally represented or has disappeared , then obviously the wife 's solicitors should have complete conduct of the conveyancing and in these circumstances the wife 's solicitors may have already asked the court to give an order to this effect ( see Chapter 8 ) .
16 It is not enough to visit or telephone the offices of the local authority , water authority and public utilities , to verify the availability of services .
17 Although it is direct , there is not enough feel or weight to give a proper impression of how much grip is left .
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