Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure whether a statement on yesterday 's meeting would be appropriate , but I shall draw the hon. Gentleman 's request to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 2 | I am not sure whether a wheel clamp would be particularly attractive to owners in inclement weather , but does my hon. Friend agree that , if a device is visible , inside or outside a car , it acts as a valuable deterrent ? |
| 3 | I was left wondering exactly what he meant , and I am not sure whether the Minister realised what he was trying to say . |
| 4 | Such broad groupings are only possible when many separate thin section analyses are grouped together ; they are not applicable where the study is of one sandstone sequence from one particular area of a sedimentary basin . |
| 5 | This is likely to be unacceptable in certain underground storage systems where personnel are not present unless the system is ‘ locked off ’ . |
| 6 | Amounts representing VAT in a claim are not payable if the Policyholder is registered for VAT and where the vessel is owned by the Policyholder and is being used in connection with the Policyholder 's business . |
| 7 | It established mechanisms to ensure that the limits set by LEAs or governors on the number of pupils a maintained school admits are not lower than the school is physically capable of accommodating , normally the number admitted in 1979 , when school rolls were at their highest . |
| 8 | Detectives are not sure whether the girl was deliberately kidnapped or if the thieves simply did not notice her when they jumped into the car . |
| 9 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |
| 10 | A Customs and Excise spokesman said they can not tell if there has been an offence as they are not sure if an import licence was ever necessary . |
| 11 | He , therefore , uses his rhetorical skills to persuade the level-headed but inexperienced Eudoxus that Irenius 's fears are not unreasonable when the nature of the Irish situation is grasped . |
| 12 | At least know your gestation times so that you are not surprised when a mating at some forgotten date actually produces a calf ! |
| 13 | Doctors are not infallible when a child 's peace and happiness are at stake . |
| 14 | Do you do you think you said that you 're not sure whether the milkman comes round the flats . |
| 15 | shall we just look at one or two erm documents that you 've already looked at please , would you go to page twenty nine , just the illustration that seen and this is the I 'm not sure whether a point is going to be made about this or not , but if you look at page thirty one there there 's a golf club on the left and a man fishing on the right |
| 16 | I 'm not sure whether the lady asked about that . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |
| 18 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I 'm not sure if the princess held a gun to Charles 's head , figuratively speaking , but it seems if she wanted something said . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm not sure if the buzzer goes off , might do . |
| 21 | Yes , it 's er i I think , I 'm not sure if the bakehouse is still there but erm it was a man named . |
| 22 | I 'm not surprised because every time |
| 23 | Her voice was soft and sort of lazy sounding , the kind of voice that most of the time you are n't sure if the person is kidding or being serious . |
| 24 | Ordinary bequests were not payable if an estate was indebted and dispositions in the form of trusts were also invalid . |
| 25 | Maybe they were looking for traces of cement which would give the game away , but the excellent visitors ' centre explains that building materials such as cement were not available when the giant , Finn McCool , built the causeway . |
| 26 | Because modern emulsions are much finer grained than those produced 100 years ago , Rodinal now gives discerning photographers , both amateur and professional , printed results that were not possible when the developer was invented . |
| 27 | Notice of such adjournment or advancement is given by the court to all parties who were not present when the order was made ( Ord 13 , r 3(2) ) ; it is common practice to send notice also to those parties who were present ( N 232 ) . |
| 28 | But I do not think it was open to them to state a sum constituting the … deficit and then say in effect they were not sure if the sum was correct . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom , in its observations on the preliminary draft , expressed the hope that the Convention would not apply at all in cases in which the address of the person on whom documents were to be served was unknown ; it was unhappy about the possible effect of what was to become Article 15 in such cases and more generally felt that the provisions of the Convention were not apt where the address was unknown . |
| 30 | Bill were not more than a baby when his brother Harold died . |