Example sentences of "[is] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 2 | This is not proving easy . |
| 3 | This is not proving easy . |
| 4 | But institutional ownership is not proving ideal for economies , because fund managers are poorly placed to monitor firms . |
| 5 | One is not comparing like with like , however , and the grammar schools had a slightly more advantaged intake , less ambiguity as to the goals of the school and had not suffered the upset of reorganisation . |
| 6 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not comparing like with like , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 9 | The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role . |
| 10 | Although it has announced an intention to provide DCE-conformance with the Windows Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) , it is not implementing all of DCE 's functionality , only the RPC . |
| 11 | The Definition Table in the hypertext database contained a free-text field similar to this one ( the authentic version is not worded this carefully ) |
| 12 | This means that the congregation is not hearing several messages at once but one at a time ; and it also makes it possible for members of the congregation to challenge and encourage one another to be obedient . |
| 13 | Indeed they must be introduced on occasions , if discussion is not to remain unformed , vague and inexplicit . |
| 14 | Given this situation , one must perforce hypothesise , if one is not to remain mute . |
| 15 | Similarly , when subletting , if the sublet part is not to remain empty for any time , a separate assessment is still prudent . |
| 16 | Local capital is not assumed subordinate because the local bourgeoisie has certain economic and political advantages , which can be used when dealing with multinationals . |
| 17 | This is not to eliminate all problems in advance . |
| 18 | If , if the colour is not signifying any thing else , it does n't matter if two forms er , time sheet and something else are both on pink , does it . |
| 19 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 20 | This is not to advocate socialist or any other sort of indoctrination , but to stress the importance of studying — via community education provision — alternative perspectives on reality socialist , libertarian , feminist or whatever — in order to counteract the prevailing orthodoxies portrayed through the media and other agencies of socialisation . |
| 21 | Does n't this , does n't this illustrate that the best way to create sustainable jobs in the long term is not subsidising unsustainable old industries but by allowing better conditions for enterprise , better labour relations in themselves to attract new jobs to the area . |
| 22 | On the beat ( upwind leg ) the board is not sailed level as on all other points of sailing , but is deliberately heeled to enable the leeward rail to dig in and thus providing more lateral resistance . |
| 23 | But the 1922 is not promoting any one candidate . |
| 24 | ‘ That , Dr Jardine , is not challenge many of us can say we have met . |
| 25 | But there remains a feeling that the Enemy is not telling absolute untruth , even so . |
| 26 | Regarding the £4 million , is not telling local authorities that they have to produce schemes within two weeks and that the money has to be spent by March a disorderly way of doing things ? |
| 27 | Note that the butt joint is not cut vertical since this would result in only one piece being cut at an angle , this preventing a proper match . |
| 28 | It is not getting better : a recent study of 60 cities showed that black and white speech patterns are drifting further apart . |
| 29 | The European Space Agency ( ESA ) , developers of Ariane , is not getting such a good deal . |
| 30 | As he knows that the Syrians spent the money that they received for their support during the Gulf war on sophisticated missiles from North Korea — all of which are pointing towards Israel — can he reassure the House that Britain is not getting involved in that arms process ? |