Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regarding the £4 million , is not telling local authorities that they have to produce schemes within two weeks and that the money has to be spent by March a disorderly way of doing things ? |
| 2 | What I would advise you to do is not use whole sentences in your notes because then you 'll be tempted to read from the notes . |
| 3 | Like the Royal Bank it is not setting specific targets . |
| 4 | This of course is not to exonerate outside influences in toto because even the most altruistic of such schemes have regularly failed to take into account the specific requirements of local groups and their inherent land-management skills . |
| 5 | As previously noted , the purpose and effect of Directives is not to regulate international transactions but to impose uniform laws operating on domestic transactions within each member State . |
| 6 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
| 7 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |
| 8 | It is not putting environmental considerations first , last and if there 's any left over , in between as well . |
| 9 | Determined to make a go of things , Nikki is not letting financial constraints get in the way of what she believes is the best long-term course of action for the kids . |
| 10 | While its main purpose is not to produce professional historians , the teaching of history in school should enable pupils to gain some understanding of what history is and what historians do . |
| 11 | To the extent that maximising profits conflicts with the public interest , the solution from this perspective is not to modify corporate objectives , but to strengthen the limiting conditions within which companies are required to operate . |
| 12 | The idea , of course is not to elucidate dependent conditionals by relating them to causal statements and the like , but to do just the opposite . |
| 13 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 14 | McGavran cautions that numerical increase ‘ is not adding mere names to the roll or baptising those who have no intention of following Christ . |
| 15 | But then , the intention is not to solve social problems so easily , only to acknowledge them . |
| 16 | Discursive practice is not applying simple correspondences between things and the language used to signify them . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , NATO is not abandoning nuclear deterrents . |
| 18 | The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University . |
| 19 | But Sally 's aim in life is n't to design outrageous clothes for outrageous people . |
| 20 | Blot : You 've said , Jean-Claude , that the problem is n't making political films but making films politically . |