Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis once remarked to a colleague during the Attlee premiership of 1945–51 , and quite without irony , that it could not be disputed that the prime minister was an agent of the Devil . |
| 2 | It can not be over-emphasised that the official timetable volumes take in railways , mountain railways , lake and riverboat services as well as bus services . ) |
| 3 | Based on this study , it can not be said that the pernicious anaemia patients with the greatest risk of developing gastric cancer could be identified using intestinal metaplasia or mild dysplasia in random biopsy specimens as a guide . |
| 4 | Similarly , it should not be assumed that the discovered attitude is necessarily any ‘ truer ’ than the preceding one , rather as if an unconscious motivation had been dragged from the gloom of the id into the bright light of the ego . |
| 5 | In Rogers v. Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd. ( 1986 ) the Court of Appeal said it could not be assumed that the statutory definition of merchantable quality ( which dates from 1973 ) was merely a codification of earlier judicial pronouncements upon the meaning of merchantable quality ; pre-1973 cases therefore should not be relied upon . |
| 6 | It should not be assumed that the royal and princely feuds of this period necessarily brought the Northumbrian kingdom into serious governmental disarray . |
| 7 | It should not be imagined that the tiny Party élite at either of these provincial levels could maintain a tight hold . |
| 8 | Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same . |
| 9 | Whilst not wishing to create visions of the past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ ( it was certainly not ) , it can not be denied that the main social trends in family organization , particularly since the Industrial Revolution , have increasingly served to isolate ageing people . |
| 10 | Bernard Shaw , the Webbs and their small circle led the way and it should not be forgotten that the Fabian Society , which they founded , is today stronger than ever , no less idealistic and no less a major influence in the councils of the party . |
| 11 | Lastly , it should not be forgotten that the common law , through the restraint of trade doctrine , has a potential role to play . |
| 12 | However , it should not be forgotten that the unofficial populist ideas of the rank and file , particularly with regard to anti-semitism , unemployment and political violence , were often significantly different from the formulations of the leadership . |
| 13 | It should not be forgotten that the Modular Course has expanded in an expanding Polytechnic . |
| 14 | It can not be proved that the virgin birth did not happen . |
| 15 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
| 16 | It can not be doubted that the Western emperors were , like the popes , sincere in their desire to exercise power justly . |
| 17 | It can not be doubted that the post-war black migrations have been of considerable economic benefit to Britain , just as the migrations from North Africa , Turkey , Greece and Italy have boosted the economies of Western Europe . |