Example sentences of "is that [n mass] [modal v] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 3 | The argument is that people can not construct socialism out of kitsch ( sometimes with the equally problematic implication that they can out of art ) . |
| 4 | What Qaddafi means here is that people should not make alliances outside the nation ( just as many Libyans said it is preferable to marry close — for example , to a father 's brother 's child ) . |
| 5 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 6 | Sales orientation — here the dominant concept is that people will not buy until they are persuaded to buy by positive selling . |
| 7 | The central implication of RHT is that people will not only act to reduce their perceived level of risk when it exceeds the target level , they will also act to increase it when it is below the target level . |