Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 is not proving the easiest of years for the grain harvest and prices are under pressure , too . |
| 2 | In our view , however , the cautious approach is not to ignore the epidemiological evidence of declining semen quality . |
| 3 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 4 | This is not to ignore the informal side of organisational activity . |
| 5 | Boss Kevin Keegan is not pushing the 30-year-old striker out of the door , but he is unlikely to stand in the way if Quinn decides he wants to leave . |
| 6 | To be concerned simply for Jesus ' message , a message which anyone could have preached and which is now acknowledged quite independently of the person who preached it , is not to hold a Christian position . |
| 7 | It is not meeting the new people which destroys the people : they carry the seeds of change within themselves . |
| 8 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 9 | But Clough is adamant , saying : ‘ Pearce is not getting a new contract . ’ |
| 10 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 11 | The stated aim is to bring product engineering closer to customers ; the Wall Street Journal quotes a senior DEC manager saying president Ken Olsen feels DEC is not getting an adequate return on its $1,600m annual investment in product engineering . |
| 12 | He is not getting the best of scoring service at the moment … he s being used as the target . |
| 13 | ‘ Aid to these countries is of a high humanitarian priority at the moment , ’ he said , ‘ and it is not getting the desired coverage because of problems in neighbouring states . ’ |
| 14 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 15 | These include power to strike out an application because the applicant is not taking the proper steps to further the claim , or because it is ‘ scandalous , frivolous or vexatious ’ . |
| 16 | A seasoned assessor will soon spot someone who is not taking an active and full part in the activity and it will be regarded as no better than trying to force your way on to the centre stage . |
| 17 | The circle has to be broken if the Book Trade is not to miss a major opportunity for a logical , practical and lucrative diversification . |
| 18 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 19 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 20 | Jason Donovan is not seeking the full amount controversially awarded him by the jury in the High Court , but we are still required to pay him the sum of £95,000 in reduced costs and damages . |
| 21 | To say this is not to belittle the sincere concern shown by many religious people in the debate over embryo research . |
| 22 | Our peasants and our nation have made the effort , but the country is not earning a single extra cent in foreign exchange . |
| 23 | To claim money as a current human necessity , however , is not to claim the concomitant necessity of any particular mode for its generation and distribution ( such as the capitalist economy ) . |
| 24 | In , for instance , though the lower 2 T 2g state is not perturbed the upper 2 E g state is split , leading in principle to the splitting of the d-d band into two , though in practice only one broad band with a shoulder is usually observed . |
| 25 | In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " . |
| 26 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 27 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 28 | It 's wrong that everybody is not treated the same way . |
| 29 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 30 | It can also help us to identify why a student is not achieving the stylistic effect he or she is seeking . |