Example sentences of "is not [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one has one reservation about making housing associations the main vehicle for the provision of social housing : a housing association is not accountable in the same way as a local authority to the people for whom it is making the provision — that is , of course , in those areas where local authorities have a housing function . |
| 2 | It is not uncommon for the same Commission officials concerned with proposing draft legislation to be responsible for the enforcement of that legislation against member states when it is passed . |
| 3 | Since both need/dare and the infinitive evoke potentialities , no before/after relation is felt to pertain between them and so to is not necessary for the same reason as it is not used with the modal auxiliaries . |
| 4 | This inevitability is not present in the same way with ironing . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |