Example sentences of "what is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exception is important as it avoids having to repeat descriptions on the plant schedule and makes clear what we are covering and what is not covered . |
| 2 | What is not explained satisfactorily in Woodward 's paper is why the 60 per cent of similar signs were regarded as cognate , rather than coincidentally similar or loan signs . |
| 3 | But what is not stated or even suggested by the early Turkish sources is that Fahreddin Acemi succeeded Molla Yegan ; there is , in fact , nothing to connect the two except the fact that Molla Yegan succeeded to the and that Fahreddin Acemi became Mufti . |
| 4 | WHAT IS NOT WRITTEN DOWN |
| 5 | by what is not written down . |
| 6 | What is not acknowledged is the fact that it is very difficult to tell someone their blood is no good or they can not do the job . |
| 7 | The most definitive statement to which attention may be drawn in this regard is the much-quoted reply of Gregory Nazianzen to Apollinarius : ‘ What is not assumed , is not redeemed ’ — or in Greek , ‘ not taken on , not healed ’ . |
| 8 | Of course , what is not revealed by these bald figures is anything qualitative about the claims . |
| 9 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 10 | What is not consumed on bathing , watering lawns or irrigating golf courses goes on the sugar-cane plantations and tomato farms carved from the swamp . |
| 11 | What is not privatised will be centralised . |
| 12 | As with the unconscious , of course , what is not said tells us as much as , or more than , what is said . |
| 13 | What is not voiced is that this importance is , in part at least , caused by the institutional processes which give Shakespeare a privileged position on the curriculum at schools . |
| 14 | What is not realized … is that although the movement from the cities has many other long-term causes , delinquency has now ceased to be merely a symptom of urban breakdown ( if it ever was ) … and has become a major contributor to it . ’ |
| 15 | What is not accepted , and indeed is little mentioned , is that the underclass is integrally a part of a larger economic process and , more importantly , that it serves the living standard and the comfort of the more favoured community . |
| 16 | And the answer so simple : what is not wanted … goes in the bin . |
| 17 | But what is not wanted is a housing estate , but the employment that is related to , not Greater York 's employment but the employment related to the level of development in the settlement . |
| 18 | But I think it 's going in the right direction , that in , in a sense what is not wanted is , is facts to , to cluster the , the , the memory but erm imaginative qualities to kindle the , the intellectual spirit 's curiosity that we really want to awaken . |
| 19 | This attitude can be unintentionally fostered through sheer repetition , through authoritarian methods of expression , and by reason of the default factor ( i.e. what is not taught ) . |
| 20 | Arrow ( 1984 ) calls the general phenomenon hidden action , since what is not observed by the principal in general is the action of the agent , be it effort or whatever . |
| 21 | What is not recorded is the tom-cats ' attitude to this helpful form of health care . |
| 22 | It 's time to take some control of events and do what is not expected . ’ |
| 23 | The men were anxious to arrange Mixed Foursomes ‘ to re-awaken interest ’ ( in what is not specified ) , and letters were sent to all previous Lady Members offering them a handicap of L.G.U. plus 6 , or a straight 36 . |
| 24 | Line B adds precision to line A , and line G to line B. What is not specified in line A is when Israel 's coming to know and hearing is supposed to have taken place . |
| 25 | What is not known is how the genes exert these effects during development . |
| 26 | What is not known is information on the locations of former sites , at which quite toxic materials may have been dumped , though recent work by Egger ( 1989 ) in Austria has mapped a vast number of such sites . |
| 27 | Most of this information comes not so much from what is happening but from what is not happening . |
| 28 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 29 | Part of the unwillingness to make a decision is the unwillingness to turn down something — what is not chosen . |
| 30 | What is not allowed for , though , is the need to isolate all the chip 's pins ( except ground ) from the computer lines before extracting it . |