Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calypso is not presented as strident political commentary : it is the bland and depoliticised version popularised by personalities such as Lance Percival and Cy Grant . |
| 2 | Clearly we are dealing here with a feline phenomenon that is not isolated and accidental , but more a regular , typical feature of cat behaviour . |
| 3 | The plate has the symbol of the city , a stylized version of the Visconti family 's snake/saracen symbol , together with the building 's name , its age ( either as a date for construction or as a century if the true date is not know or irrelevant ) , and the name of the architect if known . |
| 4 | They paraded national and military flags , recited ancient poems , sang hymns and the Polish anthem Still Poland is not lost as long as we are living . |
| 5 | An instrument will not be executed before 20 August where it is not binding until certain conditions are fulfilled and these are not met until after 19 August . |
| 6 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 7 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 8 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 9 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 10 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 11 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 12 | That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain . |
| 13 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 14 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 15 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 16 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 17 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 18 | While reading commercial bar codes and displaying the relevant information is not a very practical proposition for the home user , that is not to say that do-it-yourself bar codes are totally impractical . |
| 19 | This is not to say that middle-class girls do n't get pregnant , they do , but they are more likely to be encouraged to use contraception , and also take the option of an abortion more than working-class girls . |
| 20 | There is no one solution to sociology 's empirical reference , no clear idea as to whether there ever could be , no one canonical method for all sociological research , and no one conception of data : data are whatever a researcher can make useful for meeting his/her research objectives , aims or problems , which is not to say that just any old thing will do . |
| 21 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 22 | To say that a question should be answered fully is not to say that irrelevant matter should be introduced into the answer . |
| 23 | That is not to say that British citizens in the legal sense have no rights , only that they are not part of the express legal concept of citizenship . |
| 24 | That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier . |
| 25 | This is not to say that sexual assault carries no stigma , but the term is vaguer and the stigma arguably less . |
| 26 | This is not to say that MARID-type metasomatism is a necessary precursor to all kimberlite genesis — the MARID suite is of restricted occurrence overall — but some form of metasomatism is an inevitable accompaniment . |
| 27 | This is not to say that adequate recognition can not be achieved without understanding , but rather an appreciation of the processes involved in understanding may facilitate the design of more efficient recognition algorithms and systems . |
| 28 | That is not to say that day-to-day management can be accomplished by committee . |
| 29 | This is not to say that mass markets have disintegrated or that economies of scale are irrelevant to competitive performance . |
| 30 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |