Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court in that case was quite happy to imply an air of confidence even though it was not possible to say how the confidential information ( that is , the prints taken from the engravings ) came into the defendant 's hands . |
| 2 | Although it is not possible to rehearse here the many deficiencies of the antiracist brand of class reductionism , some of the difficulties are signalled by my description of instrumentalism and the patronizing ‘ cultural dope ’ stereotype of the white working-class racist . |
| 3 | In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Unless this implicit argumentative dimension is recognized , it is not possible to understand how the actual historical events were able to realize into explicitness a particular set of implicit half-formed justifications . |
| 5 | When a sea or large lake is polluted , then , it often is not possible to identify precisely the main sources of the pollution , or to predict the effects of any particular preventive measure . |
| 6 | These ideas are usually framed in terms of ‘ models ’ because it is not possible to solve exactly the complex quantum mechanical equations that determine the way in which neutrons and protons are bound together in a nucleus . |
| 7 | Most surprising of all , it has demonstrated that the scientific method , as it is presently formulated , is not adequate to explain even the physical universe , let alone human beings and their psyches . |
| 8 | It is not easy to explain away the perverse comparative static finding for k . |
| 9 | As for Ireland , short of trip to Lourdes , it 's not easy to see where the instant cure will come from . |
| 10 | But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously . |
| 11 | It is not hard to see how the two positions may be invoked in support of very different views on how children should learn to read . |
| 12 | Away from the Algarve , it 's not hard to get off the beaten track . |
| 13 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 14 | Credit finance legislation is very detailed and complicated , and many lawyers are not competent to point out the basic pitfalls to unsuspecting clients . |
| 15 | The consequences for the country , especially in the many cases where the recipient government is not able to sort out the resultant confusion , can at worst be disastrous . |
| 16 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 17 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 18 | While you are not entitled to recover twice the same amount of loss , it is conceivable that you might be eligible for full compensation in respect of both claims . |
| 19 | There was a necessity to get the whole idea across it was n't sufficient to show just the final product . |