Example sentences of "[is] not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students , because their money is not tied up in big items such as mortgages , spend a lot on goods such as jeans , beer and cheap travel , and are therefore a target group . |
| 2 | In most cases the discrepancy arises because " legitimacy " ( a social concept ) is not tied in with the issue of who is the biological parent of the child . |
| 3 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 4 | The weekly demonstration in Leipzig by 50,000 people is not broken up by troops despite police violence in Berlin the previous day [ ibid . ] . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , the amount of sleep lost is not made up for entirely on the recovery nights . |
| 6 | In terms of this position Moore could say that the object or universal horse is made up of parts to which the parts of an individual horse correspond , while the object or universal good is not made up of parts to which the parts of an individual good thing correspond . |
| 7 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 8 | The family of Jesus is not made up of people who are righteous in everything , peaceful whatever happens , joyful at every moment . |
| 9 | The transnational capitalist class is not made up of capitalists in the traditional Marxist sense . |
| 10 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 11 | Yet it is precisely because this ideology is not lived up to in private , and because the state is involved both in its promulgation and its violation , that feminist theory can take a highly critical moral stance . |
| 12 | Socialism , on the other hand , is not born out of armed conquest and aggrandisement , but economic development and the class consciousness it creates . |
| 13 | Both cars are supported in proper metal slings , and while a safety gear is provided under each , this is not connected up for operation owing to the small size of the model . |
| 14 | Any suggestion that this level of care is diminishing is not borne out in the findings of numerous studies . |
| 15 | The idea that ‘ the youth of today ’ are exceptionally ill-mannered is not borne out by political canvassing . |
| 16 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 17 | This assumption is not borne out by any evidence — after all , the dolphins have no perceivable technology — but it is fair to guess that at least some intelligent species will develop an advanced technology . |
| 18 | The larger pieces show a surprising link with her drawing which is not borne out by the smaller more elaborate pieces cast in bronze . |
| 19 | Some critics also argue that there is a direct link between hospital closures and widespread homelessness and vagrancy , but this argument is not borne out by research . |
| 20 | ( 1983 ) have argued that maps based on the European Air Chemistry Network may be misleading in several respects , such as in failing adequately to show the pattern of time variations over the years or the large degree of uncertainty attaching to individual contours , and assuming a geographical homogeneity which is not borne out by detailed calculations with data taken from adjacent sites . |
| 21 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 22 | From the point of view of the tenant , he has the security of the rents payable by the subtenants , and is not called on to find income from other resources . |
| 23 | Provided that the module is not called up by any packages managed by other users , the module manager can authorise the module to be modified , copied and deleted . |
| 24 | Provided that the module is not called up by any packages managed by other users , the module manager can authorise the module to be modified , copied and deleted . |
| 25 | This power can be exercised only in cases where the application is not called in by the secretary of state himself . |
| 26 | Even if the loan is not called in by the investors , there are likely to be other implications . |
| 27 | This has one most significant aspect in that soil conservation is not singled out as a specific and separate problem to be solved by a particular policy — it is conceived of as normal practice and must be incorporated into the business of improving incomes for farmers . |
| 28 | The opening fourteen chapters of Scale 1 provide a context of definitions for Hilton 's particular address to a recluse asking advice on the contemplative life which , in the first chapter , he acknowledges to be a demanding process : Although in defining active and contemplative life Hilton makes it clear that contemplative life belongs especially he , characteristically , makes it clear that it is not ruled out for actives . |
| 29 | Violence is not ruled out as a political weapon . |
| 30 | My purpose was merely to show that , though it is a perfectionist procedure , it is not ruled out by Rawls ' arguments against perfectionism ; and to suggest that the assumption that he relies upon against perfectionism leads to strongly counter-intuitive results . |