Example sentences of "as it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the government claims that old currency left in interest-bearing accounts should hold its value , so long as it is not spent . |
| 2 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 3 | The snatching is usual on full lock as the universal joint in each front drive shaft speeds up and slows down as it is not a constant velocity joint ( unlike the V8 109 and Range Rover ) . |
| 4 | Caletti 's admirable attempt at removing fear , ignorance , and stigma from sexual topics is tempered slightly by his view that prostitution is ‘ disgusting ’ and that masturbation is not harmful as long as it is not indulged in more than twice a month ( my italics ) . |
| 5 | You can therefore put such a fodder crop onto tripods or a fence when damp , confident that it will dry out , so long as it is not loaded too tight . |
| 6 | This gives rise to difficulties in serving an abatement or prohibition notice , as it is not possible to specify any works to abate the odour , and yet a notice which merely requires the recipient to take steps to abate the odour , is unlikely to achieve the desired effect . |
| 7 | Whatever ‘ turns you on ’ is okay , so long as it is not connected with modern materialism or the one-God religions , like Christianity , Judaism or Islam . |
| 8 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 9 | This strategy , NEC insists , produces greater flexibility ( as it is not necessary to follow IBM slavishly ) and also keeps the company on a smoother footing as it no longer needs to follow IBM 's every turn . |
| 10 | You do not have to exchange rings as it is not a legal requirement , although once again the bride and groom will have to sign the register . |
| 11 | Just as it is not illegal to own porn , nor is it illegal to be lesbian or gay ( unless you are a man under 21 ) : but the rights of both porn and lesbian and gay people to exist are strictly limited . |
| 12 | In animals physical and emotional , if not mental , changes do occur but these have to be elicited by careful observation of the animal , as it is not easy for it to indicate directly how it feels , or how its perceptions and emotions have changed . |
| 13 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 14 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 15 | In other words science is seen by Parsons to be free from social determination as long as it is not penetrated by secondary selectivity or ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I 've been told they will drop the charges against me for £15 , as it is not a serious offence . |
| 17 | It is an apt and evocative name — but do try to see potential purchases in bloom before you buy , as it is not always reliable and can disappoint ( see pages 139 and 140 ) . |
| 18 | As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as |
| 19 | The second fragment ( 23kb ) detected by the 680-bp probe is from an unrelated locus ( see Fig. 3 legend ) and serves as a control for the amount of DNA loaded in this experiment as it is not deleted . |
| 20 | The values from the 1984/193 observation have been bracketed , as it is not clear whether the QPO feature is real in this case , and the fit does not look realistic . |
| 21 | This method could probably be applied widely , as it is not limited to strong photodissociating systems and does not , like absorption , require a third state to which excitation is caused in the probe step . |
| 22 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 23 | It is sometimes called the Total Period Fertility Rate ( TPFR ) or Total Fertility Ratio or Index , as it is not strictly a ‘ rate ’ . |
| 24 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 25 | This is particularly important for letters travelling long distances , as it is not possible for first class letters to make the journey between certain places by the next day unless they are posted early . |
| 26 | All you need is the freshly boiled hen lobster And , as it is not a classic regional or other recognized traditional dish , you can call it what you please . |
| 27 | Algebra was not tested in this project as it is not explicitly included in the foundation list , and so is the only content category of the framework missing from the topics considered in this chapter listed below . |
| 28 | The notion of educational ‘ stages ’ is useful as long as it is not interpreted too rigidly or schematically ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 29 | It can not , however , act as the relation of dominance of a branching hierarchy , as it is not of the sort which can be successively differentiated . |
| 30 | It is true that ‘ bad ’ housing is not solely a rural problem , just as it is not exclusively urban . |