Example sentences of "not [adj] [to-vb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an integral part of modern culture that it is simply not possible to envisage a model of freedom , including that abstraction needed for the achievement of equality , which would not have as one of its component parts the tendency towards alienation . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not possible to draw a line between human and human and say some do and some do not have the right to life , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In horses , although a history of donkey contact and clinical signs may be suggestive of D. arnfieldi infection , it is often not possible to confirm a diagnosis by demonstrating larvae in the faeces . |
| 4 | In consequence , it is not possible to define a rate of return on a futures contract , and some other type of analysis must be used which does not require the use of the sum invested . |
| 5 | It is not possible to create a hierarchy of our artistic fields as we are living as Blackwomen in the aftermath of slavery and imperialism . |
| 6 | It was not possible to give a home to all , so how could he pick out one or two ? |
| 7 | Clearly , it is not possible to undertake a search within the time allowed and it , therefore , becomes necessary for any relevant information to have been ingathered in course of pre-litigation investigation so that it is available on the insurance file . |
| 8 | It is not possible to put a figure on the costs . |
| 9 | If it is not possible to attend a back to nursing course there are various distance learning packages available which can be studied successfully at home . |
| 10 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 11 | Fretwell-Downing Data Systems head of sales Charles Mobbs frequently points out that it is not possible to buy a piece of software and a manual from him and then walk away : partnership between supplier and customer is the approach . |
| 12 | They had known it was not right to separate a man from his wife for several months when she had a young baby and a business , in a manner of speaking , to care for . |
| 13 | The Court assumes that failure to explain why it was not practicable to obtain a report from such a doctor will make the admission unlawful , and the same point is made by Professor Hoggett ( Mental Health Law ( 3rd ed. ) at pp.102–103 ) , who also stresses that the administrative arrangements for medical cover does not necessarily make it impracticable to obtain a recommendation from a doctor who knows the prospective patient . |
| 14 | However , it is not justifiable to discuss a problem from the angle of insanity if there is no indication of insanity in the facts of the problem . |
| 15 | It is not dignified to approach a client with mock servility , just because this client has been fortunate in the matter of this world 's goods . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 17 | And it went without saying that , if he was not prepared to take a risk with his money , he most certainly was not prepared to take a risk which might lose him the one person he could trust . |
| 18 | If the Government are not prepared to tolerate a situation of continuing violence six years after the previous Prime Minister first uttered those words , let them forsake that which has failed . |
| 19 | The British Government is not prepared to provide a subsidy from the taxpayer and requires probably uniquely that all costs be recovered from the industry , while most Europeans have large parts of their costs met by government … |
| 20 | Indeed , it was difficult , if not impossible to tell a doctor from a counsellor . |
| 21 | It was not easy to steer a course between absolute pacifism and revolutionary violence . |
| 22 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 23 | But let me warn you : it is not easy to watch a programme on television or a film in the cinema or on video for a reason other than the one it is being put out for . |
| 24 | It was not easy to find a way of presenting prosaic information in a way which would attract parents . |
| 25 | His damn wife said it was not natural to have a room without a window . |
| 26 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 27 | I I I 'd say with the , with the revamped exam you 're not likely , you 're not likely to get a question like that . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're not likely to get a gong for loving tenderness , are you , darling ? |
| 29 | I 'm not likely to forget a figure like that . |
| 30 | However , some scholars have maintained that it was not unusual to save a remnant of one 's swaddling clothes — particularly the chrysom cloth — for this purpose . |