Example sentences of "[is] not [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | INCONTINENCE is not generally the sort of thing people chat merrily about which means that there are , apparently , a lot of silent sufferers thinking they 're the only one . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union is not normally a country to which most people would look to learn lessons about democracy — except negative ones . |
| 3 | Unlike the articles of association , the shareholders ' agreement is not normally a matter of public record . |
| 4 | The common law position appears to be that a dealer is not normally the agent of the finance company , and a customer is bound by the terms of the document , unless the finance company knows that it does not accord with the customer 's intentions ( United Dominions Trust Ltd v Western [ 1976 ] QB 513 ) . |
| 5 | Mens rea is not normally an issue in the case of pollution of watercourses when cause is to be established . |
| 6 | A visiting fossilist from Aberdeenshire drew Johnson 's attention to a species of ash tree , enabling the great man to support his recurring arboreal obsession : ‘ The present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of Nature . ’ |
| 7 | It is usual for governments to engage in such consultation , but it is not yet a convention of the Constitution that they do so . |
| 8 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 9 | Pop culture acknowledges the sign of ‘ gayness ’ , but there is not yet a whisper of female sexual autonomy , of lesbianism . ’ |
| 10 | Unlike English , which is an established discipline , communications is still in the process of finding a language and an identity ; it is not yet a discipline in itself . |
| 11 | This is not yet the case as the Sterling exchange rates can still fluctuate considerably against other E.R.M. currencies whilst it is in the wide band and exporters should cover or hedge currency exposures as heretofore . |
| 12 | Comecon , he points out , was coercive in that a Member State was unable to secede ; this is not yet the case within the EEC , but protectionist trade policies make non-membership a very difficult option for largely agricultural countries . |
| 13 | Clearly , although he is not yet the owner of the goods , he has the authority of the owner , X , to re-sell them . |
| 14 | It is not yet an issue of epidemic proportions with the gays of the world about to suffer the fate of the citizens of Sodom . |
| 15 | The other problem with this method is that column C shows 00.00 in rows there is not yet an entry in column A. To remove all these spurious zeros all you have to do is to use the command : /Worksheet , Global , Zero , Yes which displays blanks in place of 0s . |
| 16 | Where you college is one of several offering a particular course , and that course is not already the subject of national development work , I would suggest that there are significant advantages to be gained from engaging in consortium development of unit specifications for that course , and I hope that SCOTVEC can provide support to such consortium development . |
| 17 | They have been most recently espoused by the hon. Member for Clackmannan , who is not even a member of the shadow Cabinet . |
| 18 | It is not even a question of God inspiring people to exploit these opportunities when they arise . |
| 19 | It is not even a question of reducing the time spent on formal aspects of the language system and squeezing them up to make room for a newcomer . |
| 20 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 21 | It was unreasonable to feel shocked by this , I thought , watching them from the edge of the terrace as they sat at our table and Richard ordered drinks : a young woman with an older man is not even a cause for surprise . |
| 22 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 23 | My proposed account of authority is not even an account of the meaning of the phrase ‘ X has authority over Y ’ . |
| 24 | There is not even an attempt at leadership . |
| 25 | Elsewhere there is not even the clue of a sentence in Pindar to show who was behind some great construction : Segesta , for instance , a long way over in the interior of the west of the island , had a fine fifth-century temple , the expenses of whose construction can only have been met ( given the position of the city ) from agricultural wealth , that is , from the product of the labour of the native Sikels . |
| 26 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 27 | Perhaps what is interesting and puzzling is not why a minority of ‘ eligible ’ strikers ' families receive supplementary benefit , but why the majority do not . |
| 28 | There is a third route which , bearing in mind our concept of multimedia existing within a single , digital environment , is not strictly an exercise in multimedia as far as this study is concerned . |
| 29 | Original gravity ( OG ) is not strictly an indication of strength but is the measurement taken by excise officers at the start of the fermentation process to see how much sugar is present in the brew . |
| 30 | The substantial increase sought in industrial R&D will strip dry its sources of people and ideas if there is not also an increase in funding of the science base through the research councils and universities . |