Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Denote this intervention by X. In the case of agriculture , biology , medicine and even psychology , formal laboratory or field experiments can usually be done ; in the social sciences this is generally not possible but a good survey can often be thought of in quasi-experimental terms .
2 The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith .
3 Eddington thought it was simply not possible that a star could collapse to a point .
4 The evidence seems to indicate that millions of us are simply not aware that a balanced diet is essential .
5 To my mind , it is simply not plausible that a party already securely in government would allow ‘ an outsider ’ to bound one fine morning into the Cabinet Room and take charge of 21 individuals — all of whom , unlike him , would know not only what happened there last week but the battles of previous years as well .
6 It is therefore not surprising that a number of the concepts underlying the accrual accounting method are not appropriate to decision-making that is forward looking .
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