Example sentences of "is not [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is not painted on a wall : |
| 2 | Therefore , the protective effect of heparin treatment against reinfarction and mortality is not offset by a rebound after stopping treatment . |
| 3 | IBM was one of the first to develop the idea of' core' employees , though this concept is not stated as a policy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ; … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That is not shaped like a rugby ball . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The test is not based on a property lawyers view of the world but that of the businessman . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 20 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 21 | In cultures , where date of birth is not kept in a registry and is not well known , WFS estimated age on the basis of responses to such questions as " How old are you ? " or " For how long did the child live ? " etc . |
| 22 | Using the Churchill amendment as a model , the words ‘ exposed to view ’ could be deleted and replaced so as to limit such exclusion to ‘ any part of that matter which is neither visible nor accessible to persons under the age of 18 , or which , if so accessible , is not kept in a wrapping which , while intact , prevents that matter from being seen ’ . |
| 23 | Second , if leadership in God 's economy is not given on a basis of superiority then there is no reason to assume that the husband is the best equipped to make a given decision . |
| 24 | B's promise is not given as a result of economic duress or fraud on the part of A , then |
| 25 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |
| 26 | However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner . |
| 27 | Quantity , essentially , is not seen as a compensation for weakness in technology . |
| 28 | The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole . |
| 29 | It would appear we have too many priorities in education and although health education is included in the curriculum it is not seen as a priority unless something goes wrong ! |
| 30 | Any agreement or arrangement which is not covered by a block exemption can benefit from an individual exemption by notification to the Commission . |