Example sentences of "[adj] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 2 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 3 | Bryan Gould , the Labour Trade and Industry spokesman , questioned : ‘ Is this not a further example of the sort of conglomerate merger that has served British industry so ill in the past ? ’ |
| 4 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 5 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |
| 6 | It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration . |
| 7 | Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ? |
| 8 | Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ? |
| 9 | Can we just get it clear , has Goodricke bop now changed to Monday , or is this not a permanent ? |
| 10 | is this not a recipe for disaster ? |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us ! |
| 12 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |
| 13 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 14 | Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent . |
| 15 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |
| 16 | At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? |
| 17 | This not the early 1980s , when new members entered the party to the left ; old members exited to the right ; and Labour voters deserted . |
| 18 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 19 | Were this not the case , the buy-in would be tax free to a corporate shareholder because , by virtue of s208 , the corporate shareholder would not be liable to corporation tax on the distribution , unless it is taken into account in the shareholder 's capital gains tax computation ( the latter not being precluded by s208 ) . |
| 20 | But then again , maybe I 'm wrong , for is this not the same Labour Group which now proclaims to be our cultural guardians , who , my Lord Mayor , only last year , sought , in that most bohemian of ways , to dispose of all of civic treasures in one giant car boot sale . |
| 21 | It fails to establish a trust not because it is unclear , but because it does not conform to the pattern for a trust : it is a direct not a mediate wording . |
| 22 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 23 | Big enough for a giant X to have mysteriously appeared in mid-town Manhattan and another not a million miles from his flagship shop in Brooklyn . |
| 24 | Only the rich not the poor , they 're increasing poverty |
| 25 | Is that not a crushing answer to those who would maintain that Miller and myself live in the same flat ? |
| 26 | ‘ Was that not a bit risky ? ’ |
| 27 | Is that not a political cop-out ? |
| 28 | But she could not see it as such and indeed it could be said , on her behalf , that not a single object had been purchased or positioned for its decorative value . |
| 29 | think that format 's alright , is that not a contradiction because if it 's a joint statement and this format 's alright you 've got staff comment divorced from pupil comment ? |
| 30 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |