Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 As we shall see , in practice it is not necessary to write down the matrices unc merely perform simple operations with the rows of A and I in ( 1 ) , which is all the matrices unc do .
2 On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target .
3 In the allegory , it is not easy to work out the extent to which the regress is a return to Puritanian values .
4 Since the sex , age and social class distributions for the general population are known it is not difficult to parcel out the interviewers ' tasks according to these criteria .
5 However , where the contribution , if any , is not sufficient to make up the difference , the Legal Aid Board has a first charge on any property , including money , recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings .
6 The consequences for the country , especially in the many cases where the recipient government is not able to sort out the resultant confusion , can at worst be disastrous .
7 Sadly , Brian Rowe 's personal circumstances have now changed and he is not able to take up the post .
8 With a small sample it is not advisable to carry out the analysis in terms of individual papers since so few respondents read any single paper .
9 Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit .
10 ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting .
11 Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing
12 Away from the Algarve , it 's not hard to get off the beaten track .
13 But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously .
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