Example sentences of "is not [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Which latter is not however to say that ‘ correct thinking ’ overturns society .
2 Before we review Grice 's suggestions it would be as well to make clear that the other major theory associated with Grice , namely his theory of meaning-nn discussed above in Chapter I , is not generally treated as having any connection with his theory of implicature ( cf.
3 If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder .
4 This , however , is not generally recognised and with the advent of the National Curriculum some have argued that there will be even less scope for innovation .
5 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 .
6 It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful .
7 It is not generally appreciated that very many settlement sites exhibit earthworks of several periods .
8 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
9 It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action .
10 It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals .
11 Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas .
12 It is not generally recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive .
13 Implicit information is not generally codified or recorded , and is usually acquired by workers over several years of on-the-job experience .
14 Contracts for the acquisition of software alone can not be sale of goods contracts ; the title to the software is not normally transferred nor is a computer program a good .
15 The regular association of passive structures with adversity in certain languages means that the passive can often carry connotations of unpleasantness even when the event depicted is not normally seen as unpleasant .
16 In these areas development is not normally permitted and will be approved only if there are exceptional circumstances , although in practice these guidelines are not always adhered to ( Davidson and Wibberley 1977 ) .
17 Sexual maturity is not normally attained until they are three quarters grown .
18 The logarithmic technique is not normally used because it requires an extra search for every power-of-two increase in the number of records , while a higher-level index only needs to be built when an index has reached three or four tracks in size .
19 But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared .
20 It is not wholly clear that the Act has the effect intended for it .
21 Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface .
22 While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends .
23 who is not easily led but stands his ground ,
24 Inevitably it has qualitative differences and is not easily written or smoothly integrated into the ‘ isms ’ or historical categories of the discipline .
25 The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community .
26 The church of St Mary the Virgin is not easily found and is approached from Church Lane .
27 Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms .
28 Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms .
29 This pivot must result in primal feasibility since , if i = 0 denotes the z-row , we have , as the goal is not yet achieved and for i > 1 , where k is the pivot column , because of the unboundedness .
30 This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going .
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