Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first .
2 The Definition Table in the hypertext database contained a free-text field similar to this one ( the authentic version is not worded this carefully )
3 Local capital is not assumed subordinate because the local bourgeoisie has certain economic and political advantages , which can be used when dealing with multinationals .
4 On the beat ( upwind leg ) the board is not sailed level as on all other points of sailing , but is deliberately heeled to enable the leeward rail to dig in and thus providing more lateral resistance .
5 Note that the butt joint is not cut vertical since this would result in only one piece being cut at an angle , this preventing a proper match .
6 The one who fears is not made perfect in love .
7 However , they may still be needed for information which for one reason or another is not made available by subject access .
8 Yet , such a house air waybill is not made available to the respective airline and does not bind either the airline responsible for the first leg of the journey ( also referred to as ‘ first airline ’ ) or subsequent airlines .
9 ( 2 ) During an offer neither the offeror nor the board of the target company may provide information to some shareholders which is not made available to all .
10 May I als also ask her to bear in mind that none of us are in a great hurry to go through again the expense and the dislocation of the relocation of the British Library , and if this land is not made available to the Library , that might happen rather sooner than we wish .
11 Thus , for Behaviouralists , the task of explaining international relations is not made impossible by the existence of ideologies and religions , each with its own internal meanings .
12 But Kate is not made that way .
13 Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to .
14 Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit .
15 In Keynes 's hypothetical experiment the reduction in the real wage rate is brought about through a rise in the price level , which , in turn , is brought about through an increase in aggregate demand , though this is not made explicit in the definition ( see Figure 5.4 ) .
16 A particular problem which is frequently overlooked ( perhaps because the distinction is not made explicit in the Partnership Act itself ) is the allocation of capital profits , ie the difference between the book values of partnership assets and their market value .
17 The power to negotiate , which is central to compliance systems , is one which exists by implication only but one made possible because the law is not made concrete or specific .
18 The decision is not made easier by constant criticism by importers and suppliers of each other .
19 An applicant seeking an interim injunction is normally required to give an undertaking to compensate the respondent for irreparable monetary loss suffered as a result of compliance with the injunction in case the respondent wins at the hearing and the injunction is not made permanent but is discharged .
20 In a similar way the layout of the type and the distribution of print and space should be such that the reader reads easily but is not made aware of the amount of ‘ leading ’ ( the white between the lines of type ) or the spacing of the words .
21 In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear .
22 In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented .
23 In fact there are various references in his diaries to his taking his etching equipment out into the landscape — but whether this was soft-ground plates is not made clear .
24 These point out of this world , but where to is not made clear .
25 The poet tells us that ‘ This race it looks not like an earthly race ’ , but it is not made clear what kind of chase we are witnessing .
26 The only beneficiary who is entitled to receive sums immediately from the date of death is a life tenant of the residuary estate which is not made clear in the question the reader asks .
27 However , all too often when two-spit digging is recommended , the point that is not made clear is that we should be thinking primarily about the needs of the plants that are to grow in the dug soil .
28 Moreover , as the National Union of Teachers argues in response to the White Paper Teaching Quality , the basis of and variation between different HMI ratings of teacher competence is not made clear ; and interestingly , these ratings ( formed on the basis of only two observations per teacher ) , are less generous than those provided by the teachers ' heads .
29 These involve action by diplomatic or consular agents ( presumably of the state of origin , though this is not made clear in the text ) , by the Central Authority designated for the purposes of the convention in either the state of origin or that of destination , by ‘ the interested parties ’ , or ‘ through judicial channels ’ .
30 This may seem confusing if it is not made clear what she means by ‘ literal ’ .
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