Example sentences of "is not [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 is not proving the easiest of years for the grain harvest and prices are under pressure , too . |
| 2 | In our view , however , the cautious approach is not to ignore the epidemiological evidence of declining semen quality . |
| 3 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 4 | This is not to ignore the informal side of organisational activity . |
| 5 | Boss Kevin Keegan is not pushing the 30-year-old striker out of the door , but he is unlikely to stand in the way if Quinn decides he wants to leave . |
| 6 | It is not meeting the new people which destroys the people : they carry the seeds of change within themselves . |
| 7 | He is not getting the best of scoring service at the moment … he s being used as the target . |
| 8 | ‘ Aid to these countries is of a high humanitarian priority at the moment , ’ he said , ‘ and it is not getting the desired coverage because of problems in neighbouring states . ’ |
| 9 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 10 | These include power to strike out an application because the applicant is not taking the proper steps to further the claim , or because it is ‘ scandalous , frivolous or vexatious ’ . |
| 11 | Jason Donovan is not seeking the full amount controversially awarded him by the jury in the High Court , but we are still required to pay him the sum of £95,000 in reduced costs and damages . |
| 12 | To say this is not to belittle the sincere concern shown by many religious people in the debate over embryo research . |
| 13 | To claim money as a current human necessity , however , is not to claim the concomitant necessity of any particular mode for its generation and distribution ( such as the capitalist economy ) . |
| 14 | In , for instance , though the lower 2 T 2g state is not perturbed the upper 2 E g state is split , leading in principle to the splitting of the d-d band into two , though in practice only one broad band with a shoulder is usually observed . |
| 15 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 16 | It 's wrong that everybody is not treated the same way . |
| 17 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 18 | It can also help us to identify why a student is not achieving the stylistic effect he or she is seeking . |
| 19 | That is not to deny the wide range of activities that have involved employers . |
| 20 | All this is not to deny the possible relevance of the results of comparative experience as an aid to practitioners and policy-makers who may hope to utilise ideas , approaches or techniques adopted in other countries . |
| 21 | To recognize such forces is not to deny the human one . |
| 22 | This is not to deny the immense amount of valuable warm support and practical help given to old people by social work assistants . |
| 23 | This is not to deny the vital role played by language in naturalizing cultural differences such as gender roles , but rather to assert that artefacts may be still more powerful mechanisms in this process . |
| 24 | Thus , the purpose of a rent review clause is not to revalue the original bargain between the parties , but to give the landlord the income which he would have got , on the terms on which he would have let , if he had had the property in hand on the rent review date . |
| 25 | Having noticed the fertility ofodrugs as metaphor , what Ronell wants is not to explore the cultural meaning of drugs , but to get a piece of the action for herself . |
| 26 | From further inquiries it seems that the policy in these two community pharmacies , and presumably in many other equally commercial establishments , is not to use the available , but more expensive , child resistant containers unless they are specifically requested by customers . |
| 27 | This is not to whitewash the actual political practice of the Wilson government , or to deny any element of political contingency . |
| 28 | If the communication option of the first process is taken up , the environment can not tell it is not operating the second ( for exactly the same option is present there ) . |
| 29 | The other ‘ player ’ in the communication game is not observing the customary rules . |
| 30 | It may well be in the defenders ' interests to consider a minimum Tender justifiable , with some educated guess work , on the scraps of information available , in the expectation that if the pursuer is not to accept the Tender , further vouching will have to be produced . |