Example sentences of "be not [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure why the Minister would not take that on board . |
| 2 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 3 | I am not sure why the hatred exists . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not sure about every minute . |
| 5 | If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility . |
| 6 | We are not sure how the land masses lay , but they certainly bore no resemblance in either form or distribution to modern continents . |
| 7 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 8 | Or , wh what that , that we just give out grants , and we 're not responsible how the money is spent . |
| 9 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |
| 10 | I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans . |
| 11 | If the algorithm is not admissible then the decision to end the search is fairly arbitrary . |
| 12 | If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate . |
| 13 | This information is not available thus no recommendation can be made regarding this issue . |
| 14 | Secondly , computer mapping allows the user to experiment ; if the final product is not satisfactory then the labour involved in redrafting the map is negligible in comparison with manual methods . |
| 15 | Assuming , on facts such as those in Bartlett , that the directors have sufficiently researched a project , it is not evident how a court could determine whether the expected profits justify the risks involved , and this is likely to be the case with respect to much business decision making . |
| 16 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 17 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 18 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 19 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 20 | * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study . |
| 21 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 22 | It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months . |
| 23 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 24 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 25 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |
| 26 | Given Funai 's denial of any involvement , it is not clear how the Fondation will achieve its aims . |
| 27 | Here , there are also formal links ( So , she , etc. ) but it is not clear how the sequence makes sense . |
| 28 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 29 | It 's not clear how the accident happened . |
| 30 | not ideal so we say to you it 's not ideal so the supervisor , so you have to say to , this has got ta be sorted , this is not ideal , this is n't gon na work when you 're not here . |