Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She adds that while the CHA is not presently advocating de-insurance of any specific service , a practical example is the hotel cost of hospital stays . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not easy playing game after game even for fit players it becomes a chore and you tend to pick up knocks . |
| 3 | This is why reviewing is not properly speaking criticism , though it calls for critical qualities , and an extended review-article , looking at a whole oeuvre , may well be . |
| 4 | In consequence , it was often easier to overwrite ( superimpose ) parts of records with the same information , which is not good updating practice as errors can be introduced into the system . |
| 5 | In addition , the party groups often appoint Whips , whose job it is not just to enforce party discipline , but by operating what is referred to in Parliamentary jargon as ‘ the usual channels ’ can assist in the smooth running of the authority , by , for example , effecting agreements on nominations to committees or outside bodies . |
| 6 | the inspectors ' function is not just to pronounce judgement , but also to encourage and develop education |
| 7 | Of course , it is not just audit regulation that has been under scrutiny in 1992 . |
| 8 | The effectiveness of that is not just to make Ransom 's struggle real , but also to demonstrate the metaphysical excitement of all moral choices , on the silent planet as well as beyond the music of the spheres . |
| 9 | The Conservative philosophy is not just to increase spending . |
| 10 | I 'm still thinking about B S 5750 where we have to make sure that not only we know what training we have given people , that we also continue to give them , future appropriate training so that they can do their jobs , and so compliance by B S 5750 is not just trapping history it is also making sensible plans about the present and the future . |
| 11 | I am convinced that what is needed in initial teacher education is not just to instil respect for a particular form of academic learning . |
| 12 | This is not just avoiding violence — it is simply avoiding the issue . |
| 13 | ‘ [ It is our task ] to create a taxation system whose purpose is not just to re-distribute wealth , but also , and perhaps chiefly , to redistribute opportunity . ’ |
| 14 | Children also have to acquire forms of written language which are rarely or never used in spoken English , since written language is not just spoken language written down . |
| 15 | Many of the women made it clear in the interviews that their concern is not simply to get housework done in the most efficient way and the shortest possible time . |
| 16 | But what goes on between God and the individual is not always taken notice of by society at large . |
| 17 | So that the first question for the Formalist ‘ is not how to study literature , but what the subject matter of literary study actually is ’ ( p. 102 , my italics ) . |
| 18 | In relation to the material we are discussing there are already forms of legal restriction over the material which constitute regulation , though this is not usually called censorship . |
| 19 | If one takes this as a statement obliquely concerning the Marxist political project , it has a certain validity , in that it brings out the difference between Marxism and ‘ meritocratic ’ , or social-democratic notions of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ : the Marxist project is not merely to allow access to the privileged classes for the most ‘ able ’ individuals from all sections of society , but to transform the class structure ( to eliminate private possession of the major means of production and hierarchical management , and to institute a democratically socialised appropriation ) . |
| 20 | They wanted assurances that Novell is not about to kidnap Unix . |
| 21 | In this poem you get the feeling that Owen is not actually taking part in this but he has seen it happening before and so , unlike all the rest , it is not completely based on his own experience . |
| 22 | It is not there to prevent crime ; it is there to promote the work of the police . |
| 23 | But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference . |
| 24 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 25 | ‘ My aim is not only to raise money but also to introduce the trust to non-members . |
| 26 | To make sure the coil is not continually draining power , there are three switches in its circuit . |
| 27 | Although the degree of compression is not enough to allow retrieval from a compact disc , using a fast magnetic hard disc , reasonable full screen full motion video can be achieved . |
| 28 | However , the evidence so far suggests that it is not enough to persuade businesspeople that rates will really be fixed forever . |
| 29 | But promoting an understanding of the benefits of large-scale development of nuclear power is not enough to assure acceptance of the siting of a nuclear power station at a particular place . |
| 30 | Very soft water is not suitable , as there is not enough dissolved calcium carbonate , the main material of the shell . |