Example sentences of "[adj] [be] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is not done a disillusioned employee may well leave after a short time and you will have to repeat the expensive and disruptive process of interviewing all over again . |
| 2 | Stitches may be necessary to close a gaping cut , and if this is not done a permanent scar may result . |
| 3 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 4 | This is not to suggest a unilinear path of ever-increasing usage . |
| 5 | This is n't giving a strong enough message that this murderous activity has to stop . |
| 6 | In its monumental form this was not to mark a grave but to be a prize in the games and other competitions at festivals in the great sanctuaries of Greece ; especially Olympia , where the games were traditionally founded in 776 B.C. and where most of the best of these vessels have been found dedicated . |
| 7 | Individualised reformation as a dominant penal principle did not emerge here until the early part of the twentieth century , when positivist criminology was in the ascendant ( though , again , that is not to suggest a simple causal relation ) . |