Example sentences of "is not as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 2 | It is not as if four-star leaded fuel is going to be phased out tomorrow , but more and more buyers are asking : ‘ Does it take unleaded ? ’ |
| 3 | It is not as if the Administration really believes that any more . |
| 4 | There must be a strong reason why no one of her family will have her and it is not as if she had no money . |
| 5 | ‘ You know her , Wilson , ’ he said wearily , ‘ she is not as other people , and you have far too much sense to take this personally . ’ |
| 6 | It is not as if the blame was being placed on Labour counties , for in only one case where a Conservative or hung district had a poll tax of over £400 ( Derby ) did Labour control the county . |
| 7 | It is not as if alternatives do not exist . |
| 8 | Disciplinary research has a role , but it is not as a purveyor of solutions . |
| 9 | It is not as if that period was a failure in terms of personal relationships but it was very hard work to build up those relationships . |
| 10 | It is not as if conditionals of the two sorts were near to being sufficiently problematic or obscure as to make it unprofitable to use them in elucidation of causes and effects , causal circumstances and effects , and — to look forward — nomic correlates . |
| 11 | It is not as if one 's depression could be captured in recollection by the idea of bare content . |
| 12 | When this is not as a substitute for the individual fund balance sheets , the argument about incomprehensibility still applies . |
| 13 | The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control . |
| 14 | It is not as if Congress members knew nothing of this . |
| 15 | It is not as if the Home Secretary had not been warned . |
| 16 | It is not as if we can give young people a ration of knowledge that they can draw on throughout their careers . |
| 17 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 18 | It is not as if we NEED the money , just another case of the directors lining their pockets . |
| 19 | Now the point is that , that , that is not as a result of the possibility of extending er terminal five . |
| 20 | And off-licence manager David Bell hit out : ‘ It is not as if the bombers only operate after 6pm . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 22 | Scotland have had disruptions to their scrummaging routines this week though , as both McGeechan and Dixon reasoned , it is not as if they have had to fuse any newcomers to the pack , where Peter Wright 's sabbatical to loosehead worked well against the French . |
| 23 | It is not as if I abandoned her . ’ |
| 24 | It is not as if there was a competition involved , or any tie-breaker , but rather just a sales promotion . |
| 25 | Now that in turns means that the poetry of the period , and the allegorical poetry of the period especially , is not as F R Levis would probably have assumed , to be divided into cold intellectual abstractions and warm sensuous particulars , there is a sense in which the very abstractions have a sensuous property , perhaps through a philosophical mistake , but nevertheless it was the way their minds were build . |
| 26 | I mean it is not as if we 've suddenly gone to totally new territory . |
| 27 | It is n't as if I ate much . |
| 28 | And it is n't as if you want the cottage . ’ |
| 29 | It is n't as if they fit , either . ’ |
| 30 | It is n't as if I do n't know the type . |