Example sentences of "[be] not [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow you are not surprised to learn that Emecheta borrowed the goddess ' name , Ogwuguwu , for her publishing imprint . |
| 2 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 3 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 4 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 5 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 6 | It is not possible to argue that Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 deems that interest to belong to the American . |
| 7 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 8 | One is not obliged to believe that Freemantle was a good poet . |
| 9 | It is not encouraging to learn that Saudi Arabia and other states in the region are in the market for additions to their present arsenals of weaponry , seeking in particular equipment used successfully during Desert Storm like the F-15 Eagle fighter , the M1 battle tank and the Rockeye cluster bomb . |
| 10 | As a result of these liabilities , it is not practical to think that AEA as a whole could be privatised . |
| 11 | It is not necessary to suppose that Wilfrid behaved treacherously to Aethelwealh in associating with Caedwalla ; the warfare between the two was probably outside his control . |
| 12 | It is not necessary to believe that Christ will be here tomorrow , although it may help to believe that he will be here some time . |
| 13 | It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ . |
| 14 | Under these conditions , it is not surprising to find that superiors and subordinates hold optimistic and pessimistic views about each other . |
| 15 | It is not surprising to find that imprecision is an important factor in promoting an informal speech style . |
| 16 | In such a context , then , it is not surprising to find that skill sharing will occur more frequently and easily , and that job rotation may be used to facilitate both formal skill sharing and informal learning amongst employees ( Koike , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Relationships with in-laws , especially with parents-in-law , conventionally are regarded as problematic and therefore it is not surprising to find that patterns of support seem to be affected by the quality of the relationship . |
| 18 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 19 | The Commissioner herself is the only legally qualified person in her office , and it is not surprising to learn that Treasury solicitor 's advice is often sought before a decision is made to grant assistance or not |
| 20 | It is not surprising to learn that Sutherland felt so in sympathy with Picasso 's Guernica and later regretted that , in 1945 , he had not observed for himself the concentration camps . |
| 21 | In the absence of other evidence it is not unreasonable to assume that numbers of this order persisted into the early 1900s . |
| 22 | ‘ With these rent levels , it is not unreasonable to suggest that companies in the South-East who are considering relocation are now thinking again , ’ said Mr Stringer . |
| 23 | Arguing along these lines it is not difficult to show that cars is the semantic head of extremely fast cars ; to resolve the clash in ? |
| 24 | This suggest that , in many cases , it is not true to say that lobby correspondents slavishly follow the Downing Street line on a story . |
| 25 | Admittedly , it is not true to say that Esau is not blessed by God . |
| 26 | It is not true to say that Freshfayre contacted Compact and neither were the staff of Compact aware until much later of Mr Bell 's interests in the company . |
| 27 | For instance , it is not realistic to expect that trains will run regularly at fixed intervals throughout the day and night , nor is it true that the mean time between vehicles is the same over a 24-hour period . |
| 28 | It is not naive to argue that politicians , or if you prefer some politicians , have commitments to ideals . |
| 29 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 30 | It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems . |