Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not worthwhile chasing non-replies any further for experience shows that where little interest exists at the preliminary stages , the possibility of completing a deal will be small . |
| 2 | But this pop business is not all eight-figure deals and unimaginable riches . |
| 3 | He feels , in the light of the subject matter and the seriousness of their conversations , that he should exhibit some seriousness of purpose , although he solicits their opinions about restaurants to show that he is not all big issues . |
| 4 | The great fear of China 's leaders is not that western conspirators will weave more plots but that China 's people , enraged by corruption and scornful of slogans , will take to the streets , as they did last June , to demand instant solutions that the government can not possibly provide . |
| 5 | Remember also that the thesis is not that authoritative determinations are binding only if they correctly reflect the reasons on which they depend . |
| 6 | It is not that varying degrees of procedural protection should not exist : the range of licences demands this diversity . |
| 7 | It is not that revolutionary movements have been absent ( and they will be considered in more detail in Chapter 4 ) but that they have failed to elicit sustained and effective support from any large part of the working class . |
| 8 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 9 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 10 | It is not that large outfits inevitably seek to recruit liars . |
| 11 | In short , it is not that classical neuroses no longer exist , or that psychopathology has fundamentally changed — how could it ? — but that such neuroses are perhaps increasingly acted-out and externalized as interpersonal conflicts rather than intrapsychic ones . |
| 12 | That 's , but that is the hardest thing , now the hard thing about that is not actual complex numbers , it 's sort of these equations which is something else you 've done , equations , but the other one , have n't really got time , the other one complex numbers said what it said to given by that , you 've got to draw them two on a diagram , that , very very slow , calculate the modules as Z more minus Z two , what work is what Z one minus two is , they work in modules . |
| 13 | This , too , is not unlike certain kinds of natural selection . |
| 14 | Where main drainage is not available additional costs are certain to arise . |
| 15 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 16 | Hey , there is n't any other magazines , there not there . |
| 17 | It is accepted that there is n't any significant minerals constraint and it 's accepted that there is n't any high well there is n't the same quantity of best and most versatile agricultural land . |