Example sentences of "is not [adj] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not believable that a Protestant residential street would have been selected nor is there any instance of such an occurrence on any other occasion . |
| 2 | Even in the war-fighting role described by Mark Hewish ( Countdown to the cruise , 31 March 1983 , p 878 ) , it is not credible that a 12-yard accuracy is needed to destroy bases , camps , etc with a 10-Hiroshima sized bomb . |
| 3 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that a wide range of patterns can develop , from the complex layering of Rhum troctolites to the regularity in parts of the Skaergaard intrusion . |
| 5 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 6 | With all these advantages it is not surprising that a great deal of effort and resources go into the provision of simulators for high technology industry . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of A level candidates came and come from such schools . |
| 8 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of patients burst into tears as soon as the physiotherapist begins work . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that a few years later , in 1911 , Grahame was to introduce ‘ Mouse ’ to his beloved Cornwall — and especially Fowey — before the boy began school . |
| 11 | In an age of secularization , in which religious myths have been ruthlessly unmasked and in which parricidal revolt and protest has been directed as much against God as against other father-surrogates , it is not surprising that a regressive current of feeling , comparable to that which sustained the Neolithic goddess-cults , no longer finds an obvious religious expression . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that a leading official of the NUT should dismiss the White Paper which collates the present government 's curricular initiatives as ‘ a dose of centralist rhetoric ’ . |
| 13 | Being a discursive subject and speaking are a matter of having access to a mirror , and it is not insignificant that a male subject is initially in control of the retrovizor . |
| 14 | It is not inconceivable that a dedicated Marxist might be more interested in the long-term plan for the collapse of capitalism than in the survival of the corporation with which he works . |
| 15 | Homogeneous ‘ simple labour ’ is not inexorably established as the norm for wage-labour in capitalist economies , and by the same token it is not inevitable that a uniform structure of division of labour within enterprises will progressively undermine any ties of social identification other than those of ‘ class ’ . |
| 16 | It is not sufficient that a small class of the public has access . |
| 17 | But for the CPSU Politburo in 1968 , these measures were a casus belli , and it is not unlikely that a future Politburo will take a similar view of such transgressions . |