Example sentences of "but it [is] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best evidence for the existence of a black hole is the presence within the cluster of a unique radio source , Sgr A , but it is not compelling . |
| 2 | The rank shown for Hopkins appears to be sergeant , but it is not understood why he is not grouped with the other three , Lochead , Mullen and Nicholl . |
| 3 | But it is not helping the snail 's genes . |
| 4 | In the UK , licences will be issued by the Department of National Heritage and EC experts are working on the common export document but it is not finalised yet . |
| 5 | I was referred to R.S.C. , Ord. 55 , r. 3 which refers to the appeal being by way of rehearing , but that of course is the same phrase as is used in R.S.C. , Ord. 59 which states that appeals to the Court of Appeal are by way of rehearing and , to put it shortly , without quoting from the note to that rule , it is plain that all that means is that the Court of Appeal has a wide ranging power to consider and deal with the way in which the court below came to its decision but it is not empowered to hear evidence , except in certain exceptional circumstances : see , too , Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters , 16th ed. ( 1991 ) , p. 1388 , para. 49.2 . |
| 6 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 7 | Crazy paving can also be laid on sand , but it is not vibrated , as the joints are too large . |
| 8 | The rows may be triggered by a seemingly trivial incident , but it is not felt as trivial when it symbolizes past conflicts and needs . |
| 9 | But it is not radiating its energy at visible wavelengths like previous contenders for the title , all of which were quasars ( quasi-stellar objects ) . |
| 10 | ‘ But it is not affecting me to have to do the job I have been given . |
| 11 | The poet tells us that ‘ This race it looks not like an earthly race ’ , but it is not made clear what kind of chase we are witnessing . |
| 12 | It is an option to fall back on if you have to ; it is certainly appropriate for relatives , especially parents , to assist in this way , but it is not sought as the most desirable arrangement in the circumstances and therefore it should not last for too long . |
| 13 | It is seen as a necessary tool but it is not studied out of interest in the countries in which it is spoken . |
| 14 | For example , loss of pre-consonantal [ r ] ( as in car , card ) is widespread in many English vernaculars , but it is not stigmatized in southern Britain . |
| 15 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 16 | The heart of the study is an examination of state railways in two countries , Britain and Spain , but it is not intended to be a book primarily ‘ about railways ’ . |
| 17 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 18 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 19 | Unlicensed boxing is not illegal , but it is not recognized by the British Board of Control . |
| 20 | Within the state , the polis , all the inhabitants are rated as men , in the sense that they are not monsters ; but it is not assumed that , by virtue of being men , they are all of equal moral standing . |
| 21 | Is the funding council to be the creature — it is an unpleasant word , but it is not meant unpleasantly — of the Scottish Office ? |
| 22 | But it is not working like that . |
| 23 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 24 | Quantification is usually taken for granted in social dialectology , but it is not used in some other branches of sociolinguistics ( for example , those researches that follow Gumperz 's model ) , and there can be disputes about whether or not it should be used in given instances . |
| 25 | Eastern cultures certainly know about the clash principle — the yin and yang of the Chinese and the Japanese Sumo wrestlers — but it is not used as a method of getting change or making decisions . |
| 26 | It is possible to have a system in which ‘ workload related budgets concerning financial and manpower allocations , etc but it is not going to be ‘ unsophisticated ’ . |
| 27 | The power of scientists and their masters may sometimes be sinister , but it is not going to be effectively redistributed through an ill considered and superficial programme like the one outlined in Partial Progress . |
| 28 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 29 | Hooliganism is more habitual and more fully developed in Britain than elsewhere , but it is not confined to Britain . |
| 30 | The procedure is particularly apt if there is a risk that the goods may be destroyed or disposed of before trial of the action but it is not confined to such situations . |