Example sentences of "[is] not [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | advise the bank/organisation if the policy is not renewed as soon as practicable after such non-renewal has come to their knowledge ; |
| 2 | The next stage , provided the accumulation is not destroyed almost as fast as it is formed , is the colonisation of the incipient dune by marram grass , Ammophila arenaria . |
| 3 | If the marble is not moving fast enough it will run out of kinetic energy before it reaches the top , come to a momentary halt , and then roll back down again the way it came . |
| 4 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 5 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 6 | In general , digestion slows down with age , and food is not absorbed so efficiently . |
| 7 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 8 | That is , we continue to work with God , or maybe even without him , but the thought of self-sufficiency is not expressed so boldly : Finally , we reach a stage at which , whatever our external life is saying , our internal attitude is one of complete autonomy and arrogant self-sufficiency , though this may not be evident , especially to ourselves . |
| 9 | Moreover , the regular repetitive features of a language have only a secondary kind of importance , whereas what is primarily important is the meaning which is not related significantly either to a causal order or to a statistically treatable random order . |
| 10 | The vendor should ensure that the sale agreement provides that the purchaser is obliged to pay that part of the price that is not disputed as soon as possible and that interest is paid on the additional amount if any that the purchaser is subsequently required to pay . |
| 11 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 12 | It is heartening to see the Precautionary Principle being applied to potential risk situations , even though it is not applied more widely throughout the PPG Note . |
| 13 | On the other hand the Ailsa Craig case established that the contra proferentem rule is not applied quite as rigorously in interpreting clauses which merely limit the defendant 's ( usually the seller 's ) liability , as it is to clauses which claim to exclude his liability . |
| 14 | Of the children at the copper works it is not indicated precisely how many attended at least some form of educational establishment , though of course many did . |
| 15 | As we noted above , the latest 1988 BCS indicates , that indeed , crime is not rising as steeply as police statistics imply . |
| 16 | The sense of Britishness has been supplanted or supplemented by Scottish and Welsh nationalism ; the sense of identity with the nations of the United Kingdom is not felt so strongly by minorities in the population — Moslems from Pakistan and India , Afro-Caribbeans , Indians , Bangladeshis and others who experience discrimination in the British community while also experiencing a sense of belonging to their own religious and ethnic communities . |
| 17 | Because it is a large fish , it is not kept as often as it should be , as it is a very peaceful fish for its size . |
| 18 | It will therefore affect what happens during the interview , and if it is not done well enough it may prevent you reaching the interview stage at all . |
| 19 | However , unlike with the front kick , the fact you have leaned back means that your centre of gravity is not thrust so far forwards , and you can at least land comparatively lightly . |
| 20 | Here we ought to stress that evolution is not spurred simplistically on by ‘ random mutation ’ , as the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins points out in his book The Blind Watchmaker . |
| 21 | However Meyer is not looking any further ahead than this weekend . |
| 22 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 23 | Reality therefore is not defined either concretely or semiotically . |
| 24 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 25 | Their presence in large numbers is fish-only systems is an indicator that the aquarium is overfed , or that uneaten food is not removed thoroughly enough . |
| 26 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 27 | Chapman 's final advice to Clough is not to linger too long in the job because of the toll it could take upon him . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a relief to wake up in the middle of the night and to know that Dad is not suffering any longer . ’ |
| 29 | One is that , if there is going to be a high level of unemployment because productivity is rising faster than output , this means that the cost of goods and services is falling fast and either consumer demand is not increasing fast enough or industry can not gear up production fast enough to create the demanded extra output . |
| 30 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |