Example sentences of "is not [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the fact that this is not however orthodoxy that our hope lies . |
| 2 | Some believe that we should be looking at all ages to fulfilling activity which is not wholly employment based , but make more constructive use of leisure . |
| 3 | Reflecting a befuddlement judges often express when dealing with science ( and revealing again that science is not yet part of the mainstream of education ) one of the justices said : ‘ There are Harvard law professors on both sides of this case ; I had hoped you could get together and lead us out of the wilderness . ’ |
| 4 | Throughout church history , and as we move towards the eschaton , we must recognise that the world is not yet kingdom territory . |
| 5 | For him there is not yet time to stop and smell the flowers . |
| 6 | The idea of a siege as a ritual conducted according to well-defined rules is clearly illustrated by the answer of the commander of the Spanish garrison at Gaeta in southern Italy when faced in the 1730s with an Austrian demand for surrender : ‘ It is not yet time , since no batteries have been formed and no cannon are yet in place which would be a cause for surrender . |
| 7 | After the summit , we must ask how the Prime Minister can claim to be at the heart of Europe when , because of his actions , our country is not even part of the key decisions that will shape the Europe of the future . |
| 8 | Suppose there is not even consensus that the Constitution is fundamental law . |
| 9 | So to call this a chemical time bomb is not unduly alarmist ? |
| 10 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the law is not particularly kind to the home-owner who finds himself the victim of a negligent surveyor ; in most cases he will not receive full compensation for his loss . |
| 12 | Anything else they do may be interesting , but is not strictly part of their linguistic role , to tell people things . |
| 13 | for it is not just school education that is under fire at the present time . |
| 14 | It is not just money — the EC 's one-drachma-out-of-every-17 gift to the Greek economy — that Greece gets from its link to Western Europe . |
| 15 | You 're talking about have and have not , but have and have not in the sense of money surely class is not just money ? |
| 16 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 17 | But it is not just distance from the shore that is important — the number of birds between a duck and the shore is important too . |
| 18 | But it is not just knowledge that matters in this view of women 's education ; it is control over the learning process . |
| 19 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 20 | It is not just ignorance , but arrogance ; you do not think it is going to happen to you . |
| 21 | Secondly , we are now in a position to see how we can isolate uses of perceptual words from implications of possible judgement , for what remains is not just behaviour and ‘ sensory data ’ , as Frey supposes , but pre-linguistic prototypes of the fully developed language-game . |
| 22 | What he denies is not just veteris vestigia flammae but what Racine makes his Phèdre say , in appalled awareness of her own condition : C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée . |
| 23 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 24 | The land held in reserve in Richmondshire 's case is not just land held in reserve for existing firms to expand on , but also includes three sites which are identified in this document as being reserved for development after two thousand and one , between two thousand and one and two thousand and six . |
| 25 | Demonstrating that it is not just Government ministers who get neurotic about the media , Meacher desperately blamed ‘ malicious and fabricated press reporting ’ . |
| 26 | The problem is that it is not just life expectancy that determines whether the child has this ‘ right to live ’ ; often handicaps such as Down 's Syndrome which is one of the primary forms of mental handicap identified by tests , are considered such a burden both to the child and the family that the pregnancy will be terminated . |
| 27 | Letting a wine ‘ breathe ’ is not just part of its mystique — it allows oxygen to enter , which releases flavours and softens harsh edges , so you can appreciate its flavour . |
| 28 | Members will see at paragraph eight , how the dep er office compares with the national average , we are well , well below that , and I think this is a very good service indeed er , county council , which is not just value for money , that that 's too glib , but actually provides an excellent service , with within those limited constraints . |
| 29 | It is not just weight control that we need but fat control . |
| 30 | IT is not just computing , but that is the aspect I spend most time on here . |