Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved . |
| 2 | It is not possible to measure accurately the cost of meeting health care needs , the magnitude of health care needs , or their proxies , and then proxies of proxies , down the line . |
| 3 | It is not possible to review comprehensively the research into the micro-foundations here , and the reader is directed to Rotemberg ( 1987 ) for an interesting survey . |
| 4 | As Pahl ( 1988 ) points out , it is not possible to accept uncritically the idea that an underclass has emerged in British society . |
| 5 | It was not possible to determine how the woman had died , since she was dismembered and her head was never found . |
| 6 | Although it is not possible to list here the groups , individuals and parishes who have helped us so far , I wish all to know that not only is their contribution needed but also greatly appreciated . |
| 7 | The general conclusions that can be drawn from these and other studies are , first , that it is not possible to separate fully the effects of education on earnings from those of other factors , particularly those of such abstract personal qualities as motivation , perseverance , ability to make decisions , etc . |
| 8 | Similar behaviour was also obtained with fully interactive ozone , but because of the radiative coupling of the ozone field to the dynamical evolution it was not possible to identify unambiguously the contributions of heterogeneous and homogeneous chemistry . |
| 9 | Similarly , only one transition action may be specified and it is not possible to have both a task and transition associated with the same state . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
| 11 | Richard Goebel and his colleagues are not afraid to shake off the dust and restore the brightness , the vividness of the original … |
| 12 | When we meet , we seem to go in circles ; we 're great at telling the others how wrong they are or how to solve the problem , but we are not prepared to give in a bit and make the necessary compromises . |
| 13 | It must , however , be said that it is by no means crystal clear that this forms the mental element of the ‘ species ’ torts of unlawful interference with contract and unlawful means conspiracy ( indeed , in the case of the latter it very probably does not ) and it is not easy to see how the species can differ in this respect from the genus . |
| 14 | It is not easy to decide why the Bach is so much more expressive . |
| 15 | In the allegory , it is not easy to work out the extent to which the regress is a return to Puritanian values . |
| 16 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 17 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 18 | Those who have absorbed this cultural tradition by long association with the extreme right , are not likely to discard easily the assumptions of their political ideology . |
| 19 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 20 | It 's not hard to see why the Folly Fellowship gets Jo Fletcher to make its birthday cakes . |
| 21 | Hincmar of Rheims wrote to give orders to a neighbouring count who just happened to be his kinsman : it is not hard to see how an archbishop might refer to the local counts collectively as " his " , or the draftsman of a capitulary write in general terms of " archbishops and their counts " . |
| 22 | As we have seen only the papers relevant to the subject of our review , we are not able to judge how the assessment machinery deals with areas of higher priority , but we believe that , in dealing with Argentina and the Falkland Islands , it was too passive in operation to respond quickly and critically to a rapidly changing situation which demanded urgent attention . |
| 23 | Sadly , Brian Rowe 's personal circumstances have now changed and he is not able to take up the post . |
| 24 | are not able to specify how the reminder treatment produces its effect but they are quite at liberty to use the unexplained phenomenon to make their central point — that the deficit in performance see in the subjects given pre-exposure stems from a failure of retrieval rather than a failure of initial acquisition . |
| 25 | With a small sample it is not advisable to carry out the analysis in terms of individual papers since so few respondents read any single paper . |
| 26 | You might answer that pressures on existing JS Journal staff prevent the crossword being a regular monthly item — but there must be many JS staff [ like myself ] who have experience of compiling crosswords , and I am sure that we could provide a steady supply of crosswords ready for publication — with the proviso , of course , that the person who has compiled that month 's crossword is not eligible to send in an entry to the competition . |
| 27 | Sinful acts are not Bauthumley 's concern as such , but it is not difficult to see why The Light and Dark Sides of God was regarded as a dangerous work when it appeared to undermine Christian certainties : ‘ I have made God mutable as my self . ’ |
| 28 | It is not difficult to see where the term ‘ Milky Way ’ had its origin . |
| 29 | ‘ You feed , clean , groom and exercise him — it 's not difficult to see how the bond develops . ’ |
| 30 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |