Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not justified by an observation of their own behaviour . |
| 2 | it is not painted on a wall : |
| 3 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 4 | Therefore , the protective effect of heparin treatment against reinfarction and mortality is not offset by a rebound after stopping treatment . |
| 5 | IBM was one of the first to develop the idea of' core' employees , though this concept is not stated as a policy . |
| 6 | Second , since it is raised by the salesperson , the buyer is not placed in a position where , having raised a problem , he feels that he must defend it . |
| 7 | Erm , that paper reported on mortgage loans to employees , including two types of loan whereby the interest is not charged to an officer . |
| 8 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 9 | ‘ The member shall ensure that a person is not appointed as a company representative of that member except on terms which impose on him a duty to act in the performance of his functions as a company representative in such a way as to comply with the code of conduct ; … |
| 10 | The choice of research topic is not made in a vacuum , but is influenced both by the researcher and by the context in which the research is to be done . |
| 11 | At least in Marx 's usage , ideology is a part of the structure of social relations and is not overcome by an individual who adopts a materialist account of history . |
| 12 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 13 | Although there is a marked decrease with age in the percentage rating their health as good this is not matched by an increase in the percentage classed as poor . |
| 14 | This may be done by including in the grant of the option a proviso that it is to be void if it is not registered as an estate contract within , say , three months from the date of the lease . |
| 15 | The post-mortems continue but the truth is , that from an operational viewpoint , the 1,500V DC Woodhead line is not missed for a moment . |
| 16 | It should be noted that if only one of the shareholders of the company is not connected to a director or manager of the company then the exemption will be unavailable to both the vendors and the purchaser . |
| 17 | Penetration in many instances is not related to a property of the organism itself , in most instances it 's re related to some form of injury in which the organism is moved from it 's normal skin location to a deep tissue location . |
| 18 | That is not shaped like a rugby ball . |
| 19 | Jacob is not dealing with a demon , and when the answer to his question comes , together with the dawn , he knows that himself for certain : ‘ Why is it that you ask my name ? ’ |
| 20 | We could then say that , for example , ‘ Hungary ’ is phonemically while ‘ hungry ’ is ; it would then be necessary to say that the vowel phoneme in the phonemic representation is not pronounced as a vowel , but instead causes the following consonant to become syllabic . |
| 21 | Despite this , Federated Farmers , the farmers ' lobbying group , is not calling for a return to subsidies . |
| 22 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 23 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 24 | The test is not based on a property lawyers view of the world but that of the businessman . |
| 25 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 26 | The contrast between the to and bare infinitives can therefore be stated as one of subsequence ( before/after relationship ) vs non-subsequence ( the bare infinitive 's event is not conceived as an after-position with respect to something else ) . |
| 27 | His chief function is not to teach as a schoolmaster teaches , but to keep abreast of thought and development in his subject — by reading , by research into new aspects , by meeting and corresponding with other specialists , by attending conferences , by travel and often by solving real-life problems affecting people outside the college . |
| 28 | ACTRESS Jean Marsh is not flattered by a description of the rose she had named after her for her role as the maid , Rose , in Upstairs Downstairs . |
| 29 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 30 | None is , nor can be , so structured as to ensure that the individual is not treated as a thing , as a commodity for use in the process of production or provision . |