Example sentences of "not is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Roman catholic adoption agencies , the source for the majority of children awaiting adoption , are not obliged to assign baptized Roman catholic children to such couples , and whether they do or not is not a matter of public knowledge . |
| 2 | Finding out which cars can and which can not is not difficult . |
| 3 | What the Stag has which most modern cars do not is the endearing ability to amble quickly , to lope effortlessly , reeling in the miles without really trying . |
| 4 | So continuing education became voluntary and therefore the dividing line between what is paternalistic or not is constantly shifting . |
| 5 | Evidence that it is not is provided by a confidential , internal report on CID work circulated to senior officers earlier this year , the Crime Investigation Priority Project ( CIPP ) . |
| 6 | That it was not is largely due to the Bank 's over-chummy relationship with client-country governments . |
| 7 | What a Rottweiler is not is a dog you can keep shut up for twenty-three hours a day . |
| 8 | The summit may be , and more often than not is , like Ice Station Zebra . |
| 9 | John thought him ‘ a most remarkable boy , and certainly the most talented artist I 've yet met in S.A. If he can design costumes or not is another question . |
| 10 | The question whether the curriculum is relevant or not is often posed in terms of what a child may need to know , when he leaves the protective environment of school . |
| 11 | The line I use more often than not is 3lb b.s. , but I would not recommend this to anglers with no experience of long-range legering . |
| 12 | Alas , it is dependence , for whether he shall continue to love or not is dependent on whether the other will love . |
| 13 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 14 | In addition , where an odour arises from a works on which many people rely for employment the decision whether to complain or not is influenced by the realisation that should a local authority press their employer to take costly steps to abate the odour , it could result in closure of the works with consequent loss of employment . |
| 15 | Both are in accord in suggesting that the way to decide whether a disposition is a trust or not is to look at the words it employs . |
| 16 | Nearly all his work follows this dictum , and that which does not is annotated accordingly . |
| 17 | The fact that some Japanese have heart attacks and some Finns do not is no argument against the overall benefit of a low national average serum cholesterol . |
| 18 | Whether this is desirable or not is a matter of opinion — I doubt whether some of my colleagues in other departments would readily agree . |
| 19 | The necessity to obtain planning permission or not is untouched , but any works which will affect the character of the listed building require listed building consent in addition to any planning permission . |
| 20 | Whether she was killed or not is almost immaterial . |
| 21 | Perhaps the reason why more do not is that most people are protected by their lifestyles from the uncomfortable logic of the deficiency in their faith . |
| 22 | Not is . |
| 23 | ‘ Whether a patient 's life is valuable or not is none of a doctor 's business , ’ James Munby QC for the Official Solicitor told them . |
| 24 | ‘ Whether she quits or not is a decision for her . |
| 25 | Whether he becomes King or not is looking more and more like an academic question . |
| 26 | A period when a killer volcano threatens to erupt and in the end does not is a non-event to subsequent generations . |
| 27 | This is important because — apart from commands and elliptical colloquial exchanges — it is not possible to omit the subject in English , even when the meaning is completely obvious ; for example , we have to say , It is raining , not Is raining . |
| 28 | Whether it makes good history or not is another matter . |
| 29 | attempts at control have been successful or not is , in many ways , irrelevant . |
| 30 | Whether these problems are temporary or not is still unclear . |