Example sentences of "it is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Control over the kite is critical and , while a degree of elasticity is desirable for single line types , particularly those with a large surface area , it is not wanted at all with the multiple line aerobatic kites . |
| 2 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 3 | If you accept the definition of a weed as " a plant growing where it is not wanted " , once it has a use and is being grown for a purpose , it is no longer a weed . |
| 4 | But the interests they are being called upon to safeguard are not even those of Bentham 's questionable Utilitarian objective : it is not to champion the interests of the majority — the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that this new technology is being summoned . |
| 5 | In so doing , any hint of attempted indoctrination , conditioning , manipulation , even influencing and persuading , is misplaced because this dimension can only be grasped in freedom , or it is not grasped at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since this approach is not clearly within mainstream Marxist explanations , it is not analysed in detail here . |
| 8 | Television , for the NVALA , is a uniquely powerful medium , and one therefore that can have devastating effects on the social fabric if it is not checked . |
| 9 | The argument is in some ways quite an attractive one , but since it leads to a rather complex and abstract phonemic analysis it is not adopted for this course . |
| 10 | A prognosis can necessarily be only an educated guess , but for the person hearing the answer , it is not helping this underlying question : ‘ Do I have to start grieving yet or is there time to get used to the idea ? ’ |
| 11 | But it is not helping the snail 's genes . |
| 12 | ‘ It is not treated by the trade in Britain with anything like the respect it is given in France . |
| 13 | Although diabetes is usually caused by a pancreas unable to do its job , it is not treated by replacing the offending organ . |
| 14 | It is not treated as ‘ serious ’ , that is , as a part of their ‘ real ’ lives . |
| 15 | The family member also progressively adapts so that the effects of the disease are largely the progressive effects of that adaptation — The disease always gets worse if it is not treated but nonetheless the family member develops ways in which he or she can somehow live with the disease . |
| 16 | It is not based on ‘ ruler ’ and ‘ ruled ’ but on ‘ leadership ’ and ‘ followers ’ . |
| 17 | It is not based on compassion . |
| 18 | So it would seem that even a defence may be an abuse of process if it is not based on private rights . |
| 19 | It is not based on the preconceived characteristics of ( some possibly arbitrary ) category of customer delineated on demographic or income criteria , or media data . |
| 20 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 21 | It is not based on military criteria , and it will do nothing whatever for Scotland . ’ |
| 22 | Unlike positivism and relativism , it is not based on an illogical position . |
| 23 | Although it is a consonantal loss , it is not said to be ugly or careless in England generally . |
| 24 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 25 | It is not said on the form containing the request that the judicial view will be treated as confidential , but it has always been so regarded by the Lord Chief Justice and the judges . |
| 26 | In contrast , it is not said by the third defendant or by anyone else that the third party was guilty of any form of dishonesty . |
| 27 | It is not said , however , that at around the same time in Georgian England a woman , Angelica Kauffman , had arrived on the London art scene and was proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter . |
| 28 | A large part of all advertising is designed ( deliberately or accidentally ) as ‘ reminder ’ or ‘ reinforcement ’ advertising : it is not trying to change anything . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not trying to infer that the people in the classroom are supporting me . |
| 30 | You toss the coin from hand to hand to show it is not gone . |