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

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1 The relationship between you and your reader(s) , especially in academic courses , is not generally an equal one .
2 At best a written submission for presentation to the tribunal will be prepared , but this is not normally an adequate substitute for the interactive process of actual appearance before the tribunal .
3 Mens rea is not normally an issue in the case of pollution of watercourses when cause is to be established .
4 It is not yet an issue of epidemic proportions with the gays of the world about to suffer the fate of the citizens of Sodom .
5 Britain is not yet an authoritarian state .
6 IBM said although the VR tool kit is not yet an IBM product , it believes a related type of package could be priced competitively with similar products on the market .
7 The other problem with this method is that column C shows 00.00 in rows there is not yet an entry in column A. To remove all these spurious zeros all you have to do is to use the command : /Worksheet , Global , Zero , Yes which displays blanks in place of 0s .
8 Computer software is not yet an explicit part of the custodial mandate of the museum establishment and there is a growing alarm at the historical implications of this exclusion .
9 There is not even an optimum number of meals or snacks that should be eaten each day .
10 My proposed account of authority is not even an account of the meaning of the phrase ‘ X has authority over Y ’ .
11 ‘ Documenta ’ is not even an attempt to sum up contemporary art , but is an expression of very personal viewpoints .
12 There is not even an attempt at leadership .
13 Trusts take a much narrower view on long-term needs than regional health authorities , and nursing education is not even an obligation .
14 On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust .
15 Original gravity ( OG ) is not strictly an indication of strength but is the measurement taken by excise officers at the start of the fermentation process to see how much sugar is present in the brew .
16 Axelrod recognized that Tit for Tat is not strictly an ESS , and he therefore coined the phrase ‘ collectively stable strategy ’ to describe it .
17 Waterside — A Pictorial Past , is not strictly an aeroplane book , concentrating more on the history of the parishes of Calshot , Fawley , Hythe and the surrounding areas .
18 There is a third route which , bearing in mind our concept of multimedia existing within a single , digital environment , is not strictly an exercise in multimedia as far as this study is concerned .
19 It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems .
20 The substantial increase sought in industrial R&D will strip dry its sources of people and ideas if there is not also an increase in funding of the science base through the research councils and universities .
21 As Neil Richardson noted in 1980 , ‘ An old town pub is not just an attractive Victorian or Georgian facade , it is a building which is still being used for the purpose for which it was built .
22 But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) .
23 This is not just an academic concern but part of the work of understanding how and when capitalism will change and be overcome .
24 She is not just an experiment , but a lively and very likeable young woman .
25 The inner analogue is not just an interpretation of experience , it is a re-presentation of experience itself .
26 But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus .
27 And this is not just an a priori supposition but finds support in the texts .
28 It is not just an effort to raise funds to pay for the continuance of the maypole-raising , but a way of instilling the custom into the children .
29 It 's crucial to realise , to remember , to know , that this is not just an intriguing way of looking at our lives .
30 Privacy is not just an important legal tradition — it is also a good crime deterrent .
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