Example sentences of "is not [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the legal framework exists , there is not supervision of actual operations , the report says . |
| 2 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 3 | There is not doubt at all that smoking can seriously damage your health . |
| 4 | There is not doubt at all that smoking can seriously damage your health . |
| 5 | Lord St John of Fawsley , chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission , who , as Norman St John Stevas , was an early ministerial victim of Mrs Thatcher 's purge of the wets , has admonished the Prime Minister by reminding her she is not head of state ; treating her as such , his lordship suggested , would simply arouse public hostility . |
| 6 | It is not disturbance as such but uncontrollable disturbance which leads to uncertainty . |
| 7 | More than physical possession , in which , Proust says , one actually possesses nothing , Marcel seeks from Albertine reassurance concerning his own distinctiveness , his separateness , his individuality , and in Proust 's conception of love , therefore , failure is inevitable , because despite the conventionally unifying language of love , what we seek at the most profound level is not contact with another person , but contact with ourselves . |
| 8 | This is a very eroded descent but unfortunately there is not way of avoiding it . |
| 9 | In the case of alcoholic liver disease , this may be logistically impossible , since even if biopsy specimens could be obtained from alcoholics with normal liver blood tests to ensure the absence of occult disease , there is not way of predicing whether these patients will develop disease at a later date . |
| 10 | You might be able to have half a bicycle if you share it with somebody else , but there is not way of having a thirtieth of a bicycles . |
| 11 | It is not success in itself that matters , so much as the process of/earning how to create success , learning how to manifest our personal and global visions — learning how to live in a looking-glass world . |
| 12 | In fact , purists claim the big companies use so many the end result is not cider at all . |
| 13 | There is the negative peace of a phoney war or a balance of power , which is not peace at all . |
| 14 | But he is not master of the weather that howls outside . |
| 15 | Detail like this provides retrospective labelling , but it is not evidence about a historical period . |
| 16 | This conflicts with earlier reports that Cu(I) gets incorporated into ZNO in the methanol synthesis catalyst ( but as Couves et al write , ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ ) . |
| 17 | Mere dictation to a typist in the normal course of business is not evidence of excessive publication . |
| 18 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 19 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 20 | Convincing consumers to pay more for premium products is not evidence of a cartel : it is good marketing . |
| 21 | That is not evidence of a general trend . |
| 22 | There is not evidence of a systematic decrease in nutrients in the region . |
| 23 | But this is not evidence for an additional hereditary mechanism . |
| 24 | Again , particular accuracy is not evidence for general acquisition ( see Ellis 1985 ; Tarone 1983 , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | But equally obviously this is not evidence for conscious design . |
| 26 | It may be very very relevant to what happens to but with regard to your client , this statement is not evidence against him because his confession is admissible only against the maker . |
| 27 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 28 | They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course . |
| 29 | The ECMT , which is not part of the EC , is widely regarded as an ineffectual organisation . |
| 30 | The Stefan the Great Movement is not part of the Popular Front , which is the main umbrella group co-ordinating the opposition campaign , although many people are members of both . |