Example sentences of "is [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not transmitted from : |
| 2 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 3 | Always use a condom ( unless you 're absolutely sure your partner is not infected ) * . |
| 4 | But this is not tax-effective and ACET will not benefit from the additional 33.3% increase in value . |
| 5 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 6 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 7 | However , it is not long enough . |
| 8 | You should stress that your concern for human rights is not in any way politically partisan . |
| 9 | Fr Jin has apparently refused — he is in good health despite his age — and is not prepared to admit to any criminal activity to secure his release . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 11 | However , the State President is not as confident as he would like to be . |
| 12 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 13 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 14 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 15 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 16 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 17 | The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task . |
| 18 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 19 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 20 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 21 | In other words , stylistic change is at a premium ; in Gombrich 's book the dramatic innovations of Caravaggio do well , but a distinguished painter , say Bonnard , who is not so bold or challenging an artist was omitted until additions were made to the text in 1971 . |
| 22 | Excellence is not necessarily a criterion for including a picture or a sculpture in a chronological survey . |
| 23 | A work of outstanding quality is a pinnacle ; it is not typical . |
| 24 | Art is not alone in failing to conform contentedly to such chronological schemes , indeed , some might say that poetry or music are even less amenable . |
| 25 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 26 | This is not true in Philadelphia , where a new city decisively overwhelms the old . |
| 27 | Such a frank exclusion from the domain of art is not a solitary instance . |
| 28 | Of course , a theorist may damage an argument through bias , perhaps excluding relevant evidence inconvenient to the case being made ; but this is not a danger exclusive to theorists . |
| 29 | Post-structuralist texts expose the role of language in deferring meaning and in constructing a subjectivity which is not fixed but is constantly negotiated through a whole range of forces — economic , social and political . |
| 30 | The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention . |