Example sentences of "[be] not [adj] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid that no amount of arm-twisting will get me to reveal the exact locality , as I am not prepared to see a quiet stream denuded of its substrate by busloads of fishkeepers . |
| 2 | Nowadays , very few excavations take place on sites that do not have some form of threat of damage or destruction , because enough funds are not available to finance a full research excavation on every possible site . |
| 3 | ‘ In Australia you are not supposed to have a cleaner or someone to do things for you , there 's not such a class distinction . |
| 4 | ‘ But we are not ready to become a rubber stamp that only certifies the existence of reforms . |
| 5 | The British people are not willing to accept a sham royal marriage or a non-taxpaying monarch . |
| 6 | Tramps and dossers are not likely to organize a powerful protest lobby to Parliament to complain about intrusion into their private lives and criminals are even less likely to take legal action ( though they will consider illegal retaliation ) . |
| 7 | We are not entitled to introduce a new force . |
| 8 | Complicated things are never robust and things that are not robust require a disproportionate amount of attention . |
| 9 | The contracting branch could then , if necessary , seek the support of smaller neighbouring branches/organisations who are not able to mount a major collection project . |
| 10 | The school does n't have any accommodation of its own but will help if you 're not local to find a decent bed and breakfast in the area . |
| 11 | You 're not supposed to experience a great deal . ’ |
| 12 | All was underpinned by the widespread belief that local councillors were not likely to take a progressive view on educational policy , such matters as the arts or the preservation of historic buildings , and that local authority officials were less competent than their counterparts in Whitehall . |
| 13 | There might be every reason for treating such evidence with care , but the reasons were not sufficient to form a legal barrier to submitting the evidence at all . |
| 14 | The Financial Times of March 26 quoted the US ambassador to GATT , Rufus Yerxa , as saying that the USA was seeking the exemptions because the proposals of other nations to open their markets were not adequate to ensure a balanced accord . |
| 15 | We were n't erm we were n't able to do a multi-variant analysis with the grade because we did n't have a sufficient number of , of the grade to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ But we kept our shape well and it was unfortunate that we were n't able to nick a second goal . |
| 17 | You were n't willing to do a good turn for your sister without being bribed with a lollipop , and even then you left the posting of the letter because you wanted to go first to Horsfall Woods for your own pleasure . |
| 18 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |
| 19 | It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment . |
| 20 | Now it is not possible to give a confident answer to the question whether the delay was unreasonable . |
| 21 | It is not possible to give a fair criticism of their case here . |
| 22 | How far unions are binding , how far they are exclusive , how long they last , whether they bind men and women equally , whether sexual unions are public or merely private matters , whether the recognition of unions is inevitably linked with the legitimation of children — all these questions and many more are so variable that many anthropologists would argue that is not possible to give a valid universal definition of marriage [ Leach , 1961 ] . |
| 23 | They depend on many factors , and it is not possible to give a full account of them here ; you will find details in Refs [ 17 ] and [ 18 ] . |
| 24 | In his introduction to part ( 1 of Critique et vérité Barthes argues that the degree of critical self-consciousness in literature means that it is not possible to draw a clear distinction between criticism and literature . |
| 25 | In this situation , whether an arbitrage transaction is attractive or not depends on the time preferences of the arbitrageur , and it is not possible to state a general no-arbitrage condition . |
| 26 | It is not possible to assume a homogeneous workforce . |
| 27 | Franchising has long been recognised by economists as a method of improving efficiency in the provision of goods and services in situations where ( for a variety of reasons ) it is not possible to establish a competitive market . |
| 28 | It is not possible to reconstruct a detailed history of Ine 's reign but the indications are that he ruled with firmness . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not possible to get a better debut than a game against the world champions , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It is not possible to match a large defined pattern in the normal way ( page 32 ) with this seam as the first row of stitching is carried out with wrong sides facing . |