Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Clough is adamant , saying : ‘ Pearce is not getting a new contract . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The circle has to be broken if the Book Trade is not to miss a major opportunity for a logical , practical and lucrative diversification . |
| 8 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 9 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 10 | Our peasants and our nation have made the effort , but the country is not earning a single extra cent in foreign exchange . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our purpose is not to define a basic library for you , but rather to suggest kinds of books which you might look for ; and our choice of texts is based primarily on their convenience as illustrations . |
| 13 | Even when an oxytocic agent is not given a small proportion of patients show an increase in plasma oxytocin concentration during the late second or early third stage of labour . |
| 14 | If this is not done a disillusioned employee may well leave after a short time and you will have to repeat the expensive and disruptive process of interviewing all over again . |
| 15 | Stitches may be necessary to close a gaping cut , and if this is not done a permanent scar may result . |
| 16 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 17 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |
| 18 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 19 | In dismissing metaphysics , Ayer is not dismissing an old-fashioned and unnecessary pan of philosophy . |
| 20 | All that says is that this particular product line is not following a smooth transition from youth to middle age and then old age , but that it has managed to find some rejuvenation late in life . |
| 21 | Individualised reformation as a dominant penal principle did not emerge here until the early part of the twentieth century , when positivist criminology was in the ascendant ( though , again , that is not to suggest a simple causal relation ) . |
| 22 | This is not to suggest a unilinear path of ever-increasing usage . |
| 23 | Do not disturb this sleep unless there are other indications that the child is not sleeping a peaceful , healing sleep . |
| 24 | Costain is not paying a final dividend , making the interim 43/4p the total for the year . |
| 25 | So the trick about invisibility is not to have a usual environment . ’ |
| 26 | I think that it 's important to recognize that to have a depressed mood is not to have a depressed illness |
| 27 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 28 | If the monitor works but appears to have lost one or more of the red , blue or green colours , the cable connecting the card to the monitor is not making a good connection . |
| 29 | He is not making a temporal point about something that must have happened ‘ in the beginning ’ — the first push . |
| 30 | They are actually all for and b =8/3 but various values of P. In each case the integration was started at a time sufficiently earlier than the start of the trace that the choice of initial conditions is not having a large direct effect . |