Example sentences of "[is] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your job is not to deter people from having meetings , merely to ensure that the necessary ones are fully productive . |
| 2 | Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies . |
| 3 | But Flynn is not pushing Harper for a decision and is happy to leave things in the air for a fortnight or so . |
| 4 | That is , it is not to characterize consciousness generally . |
| 5 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |
| 6 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't you understand , you great big stupid asqueroso , I was close to getting it out of him , the information I need to prove my husband is not imagining things . |
| 8 | This is not to cast doubt on the sincerity of Papert and his colleagues . |
| 9 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 10 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 11 | The P90 might be rough and ready but it 's mind-bogglingly powerful ; the problem is not getting Billy Gibbons harmonics , but avoiding them . |
| 12 | The temptation to ‘ fiddle ’ quotas or interviews is always present , and for an interviewer who is not getting interviews this temptation must at times be great . |
| 13 | Old Master specialist Bruno Meissner of Zurich , tied up with moving into new London premises , is not taking part . |
| 14 | Even if your centre is not taking part in the pilot , we should be glad to know your views ( for a contact name and telephone number see page 4 ) . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman is being neither reasonable nor fair to the management or work force in British mines and is not taking account of the pain and suffering through which some of them had to go to achieve that improvement . |
| 16 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 17 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 18 | The afternoon dance publicised in The Northern Echo yesterday and run by the Dolphin Sunday Dance Club at the Dolphin Centre , Darlington , is not taking place tomorrow . |
| 19 | The job of care staff is not to do things for clients , but to enable them to do things for themselves . |
| 20 | Then we can write , when a homologous element is not made unity , unc Here a , b , c , d ; p , q are the values of a homologous element in the various columns ; a , b , c , d are known . |
| 21 | The association 's magazine Which ? says that insurance companies and the Department of Transport collect accident details that could throw light on the cars which best protect their occupants , but this information is not made public . |
| 22 | His purpose in creation is not to destroy God ; he knows that he can not do that . |
| 23 | The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money . |
| 24 | If the treaty is not ratified Mr Wilson suggests there will be no extra money in the budget and Clwyd could well lose Euro grants . |
| 25 | As Clinton Rossiter maintained , for some presidents the chief executive 's most difficult task ‘ is not to persuade Congress to support a policy dear to his political heart , but to persuade the pertinent bureau or agency or mission , even when headed by men of his own choosing , to follow his direction faithfully and transform the shadow of the policy into the substance of a program ’ . |
| 26 | The best way to reduce the amount of rubbish that goes into the domestic bin is not to persuade people to sort out unwanted recyclables . |
| 27 | There is not a US coastal state which is not considering measures to preserve its coastal regions and the Environmental Protection Agency has put the cost of protecting cities against a one metre sea-level rise at between $73 and $111 trillion . |
| 28 | He [ the language teacher ] is not teaching linguistics . |
| 29 | Souness insists Wright is NOT leaving Anfield |
| 30 | Wilkinson will be hoping to count on his old retainer early in the New Year , but Sterland is not counting chickens yet . |