Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week . |
| 2 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 3 | NLTR Whilst the file you wish to enter is syntactically correct , the module issue number is not later than the latest known to LIFESPAN . |
| 4 | This latter type of work , it is claimed here , is not logically as different from the work of sociologists and anthropologists as it is from that of scientists working with animals , plants or inanimate objects . |
| 5 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 6 | However , the test of what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ as opposed to ‘ practicable ’ , is not just whether the measures taken are financially or physically possible but the degree of risk must be balanced against the sacrifice involved . |
| 7 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 8 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 9 | It is not just because of their greater autonomy that discretion in both senses is very important to neighbourhood police . |
| 10 | IF Gorbachev the Great is looking more and more like Mixed-up Mikhail , it is not just because he has an impossible job . |
| 11 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 12 | This is not just because of the increasing domination of the visual over other media , as reiterated ad nauseam in discussions of the postmodern world , but is , more importantly , due to the specific characteristics of film . |
| 13 | This is not just because giving practical expression to such broad objectives in any meaningful way is inherently very difficult , it is also because the superstructure has to meet demands for close and detached accountability : to parents , to governors , to local education authorities and , of course , to the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | Unfortunately this is not just because the ideas will be taken up , but also because the savaging of the universities , especially the technically minded ones , will reduce the number of ideas . |
| 15 | This is not just because of the enormous scale of the demands which an ageing population puts on caring organisations . |
| 16 | It was also a story about people and , if I keep returning to Morocco , it is not just because the Atlas offer superlative climbing and trekking but because the Berber ‘ Highlanders ’ are a very special people : incredibly hardy , had-working , lively and friendly . |
| 17 | This is not just because of the threat from disease , famine or a self-inflicted nuclear holocaust ; all social worlds are precarious in a deeper sense . |
| 18 | This is not just because of the inordinate number of calculations involved . |
| 19 | This is not just because the terms Whig and Tory were not to become current usage until the Exclusion Crisis , but because the political polarities which were emerging in the 1660s and 1670s — between Court and Country — did not predict the Whig–Tory split that was to emerge after the Popish Plot . |
| 20 | ‘ T is not herein as it was wont to be , |
| 21 | This is not simply because , unlike most other artefacts , they are often stamped with words , images and even dates , but also because of their quantity and durability . |
| 22 | What I shall be arguing is that this is not simply because the kids are so difficult , nor because teachers are intrinsically powder-kegs of suppressed rage , but because the way most decent people view the world — their implicit personal philosophy if you like — breaks down when pushed to the limit and delivers misguided answers to difficult questions . |
| 23 | It is not simply because Mr Murdoch interferes with editorial policy , which he does , but because his staff , from the moment they are employed , know what is expected of them . |
| 24 | Comparatively short but broad leaf is not longer than 2ins ( 5cms ) . |
| 25 | The 1988 Act goes even further , saying that it is an offence to carry any blade — ( except a pocket knife with a folding blade whose cutting edge is not longer than three inches ) or sharp point in a public place without ‘ good reason ’ or ‘ lawful authority ’ . |
| 26 | It is not directly because of the physical differences between light and sound |
| 27 | It is not directly because of the physical differences between light and sound . |
| 28 | But he soon wins you over , and it is not long before you start feeling that his casual manner conveys Higgins 's narcissism to a well-pronounced T. |
| 29 | Once maintenance ceases , it is not long before the roof starts to leak , the plasterwork or the ceiling to become stained and damaged , and dry rot to take hold . |
| 30 | IT IS not long before anyone interested in wildlife photography discovers that behind every good picture lies a fairly heavy investment in film ( to allow for the shots that did not work ) and a nigh on infinite amount of both time and patience . |