Example sentences of "is not [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marked language of the Miller 's Tale , swyve and pisse , is found again in the Reeve 's Tale ; fartynge is not named as such in the Reeve 's Tale , but is included with a circumlocution that uses a marked term we have seen in the Shipman 's Tale : The miller 's boast : is no doubt intended to be simply proverbial , but has a richly ironic meaning in light of the " beard " that Absolon finds upon obtaining his kiss from Alison ( 3730 – 43 ) . |
| 2 | It is not argued that any system of law other than English law applies to determine the legal status of the receivers appointed by the bank pursuant to the debenture . |
| 3 | Although a revised standard on going concern is needed , it is important that this SAS , which is seen by many as a critical element in reducing the expectation gap , is not rushed and that due consideration is given to all the issues the commentators have raised . |
| 4 | The meditations project an experience of alienation and deadness from which the meditator longs to be released ; he knows at one level that Christ 's death is the key to such release : But in this work such knowledge is not projected as that of experience , though it depends on recognition of the possibility of such experience for its validity . |
| 5 | The calypso is not presented as strident political commentary : it is the bland and depoliticised version popularised by personalities such as Lance Percival and Cy Grant . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , its point about the evidence for God 's goodness — that it is not compelling and that , indeed , there may be moments when it appears that the facts of life may not be reconciled with a good Creator at all — might also be applied to the evidence for God 's existence . |
| 7 | Clearly we are dealing here with a feline phenomenon that is not isolated and accidental , but more a regular , typical feature of cat behaviour . |
| 8 | The plate has the symbol of the city , a stylized version of the Visconti family 's snake/saracen symbol , together with the building 's name , its age ( either as a date for construction or as a century if the true date is not know or irrelevant ) , and the name of the architect if known . |
| 9 | The heat energy within a kettle of boiling water is not lost when that kettle is poured into a bath of cold water but the water in the bath is not hot enough to make tea ( it is ‘ low grade heat ’ ) . |
| 10 | They paraded national and military flags , recited ancient poems , sang hymns and the Polish anthem Still Poland is not lost as long as we are living . |
| 11 | In other words , provided that the liquidity trap is not reached and that investment remains sufficiently responsive to interest rate reductions , falling prices could conceivably establish levels of expenditure and real income which correspond to their full employment values , E * ; and Y * ; respectively . |
| 12 | It is not recorded whether those who designed this emblem were aware that ‘ beaver ’ is also slang for the female sexual organs . |
| 13 | An instrument will not be executed before 20 August where it is not binding until certain conditions are fulfilled and these are not met until after 19 August . |
| 14 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 15 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 16 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 17 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 18 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 19 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 20 | This is not to say that lower gliadin doses are not potentially harmful to coeliac disease subjects . |
| 21 | That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain . |
| 22 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 23 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 24 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 25 | This is not to say that such comment is wholly wrong ; merely to say that it lacks precision , finesse . |
| 26 | That is not to say that such an idea , or something like it , is not necessary in Italy . |
| 27 | Which is not to say that such diseases are more common in this country or that the cases are more florid or medically interesting , simply that , for historical reasons , the delivery of both diagnosis and treatment is better than elsewhere . |
| 28 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 29 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
| 30 | 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI . |