Example sentences of "is [to-vb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , one of the most useful is to include not only the drive letter , but the current directory . |
| 2 | [ 7.1 ] If the Lease is completed rent shall be payable in accordance with the terms of the Lease with effect from the Rent Commencement Date [ [ 7.2 ] The Tenant shall commence trading from the Premises not more than after the Completion Date ] It is important to ascertain if any rent free period is to include not only the rack rent but also service charges and/or insurance premiums . |
| 3 | The approach taken by the EC is to impose not uniform standards but essential standards . |
| 4 | The best policy is to try not to be placed in a position where you risk serious criticism on account of your behaviour . |
| 5 | The one redress any of the members of this group have is to try not to appear on the poll tax register . |
| 6 | But although recycling and reuse are extremely important and something we can all support , the real solution to the waste problem is to try not to produce any in the first place ! |
| 7 | But the aim is to discover not merely whether there is more radioactivity in the brains of the trained compared with the control chicks , but just where in the brain it is located . |
| 8 | What we 're trying to do is to provide not only a stadium but something that everybody will want to use . |
| 9 | However , this is to mistake not only the demanding nature of current practice but also the non-punitive knowledge , skills , and values which provide for its success . |
| 10 | The purpose of a skeleton argument is to identify not to argue the points . |
| 11 | The level of demand is to do not only with the tasks as they are done but also with the duration for which they must continue to be done . |
| 12 | The State Paper Office , a most convenient fire-proof building , which cost the public £50,000 , is , we hear , to be pulled down ; and the mania for pulling down is to extend not only to it , but , in order to complete the ‘ congruity ’ , we should have to Gothicise the Horse Guards , and apply Gothic exteriors to all buildings in the neighbourhood . |
| 13 | The only possibility left to him of safeguarding his own position , it seems , is to deny not only that " Men exist " but " ( Ex ) x is human " too can be treated as genuine propositions . |
| 14 | The answer is to elicit not intuitions OF meaning , but intuitions ABOUT meaning , which , although they are one step removed from the primary object of interest , can , if properly chosen , be clear and reliable . |
| 15 | The purpose of satyāgraha is to convert not to coerce . |
| 16 | The aim is to ensure not only that all important titles are held in stock , but also that as far as possible there is on the shelves at any one time a reasonable coverage of material in all subject fields . |
| 17 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 18 | Hoggart , claiming with some justification that ‘ in the WEA today … we are suffering from an uncertainty of purpose and recurrent feelings of guilt ’ advocated the raising of academic standards in courses and a readiness to seek working-class students regardless of their commitment to trade unionism or political emancipation : ‘ as an educational association our business is to educate not to train social reformers ’ , and accordingly courses in literature were as valuable as those in the social sciences . |
| 19 | Clearly the key to economic success is to control not the supply of money , but the supply of central bankers . |
| 20 | All three come into contact with the random violence that haunts a society dominated by fear of gangland gun rule , but Kasdan 's object is to analyse not terrorise . |
| 21 | A more promising strategy is to ask not how or whether a deviant sentence can be corrected , but what the minimal changes are that will render it normal ; then we examine the nature of the changes . |
| 22 | And I would suggest therefore , that what we ought to do , is to ask not only for erm , the service committees to have reports , but for there to be erm , a , a , at some point a round up report of policy and resources . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the leaves on the Pinot Blanc are far less bullate , that is to say not so bubbly between the leaf 's veins . |
| 24 | When we set out to tell other people the truth by saying things , what we actually do is to say not what we believe , but what we believe we believe — which , as Freud and others have taught us , is n't always the same thing . |
| 25 | The keyboard and ensemble ricercari and the canzoni alla francese for ‘ istromenti da tasti ’ of Andrea Gabrieli were nearly all published posthumously when they were probably thirty or forty years old , that is to say not much more modern than the ricercari of Buus and Annibale Padovano ( see p. 234 ) . |
| 26 | The need is to safeguard not only their architecture , interiors and gardens , but also their wider setting ; and hard experience shows that the prospect of finding a secure , viable , long-term use for these houses diminishes dramatically as their setting is eroded . |
| 27 | Perhaps Mrs Ashley understood best what English women want , which is to feel not too conspicuous but , rather , pretty and comfortable . |