Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of visitors , knowledge of risk plus entry is not sufficient to amount to volenti . |
| 2 | However , the deal is not likely to appease European industry . |
| 3 | Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration . |
| 4 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 5 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 6 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 7 | It is common to turn the bureau telephone answering machine on with the recorded message that an adviser is not available to take the call and the potential client should call again later or come in person to the bureau . |
| 8 | Tyvek is not easy to locate . |
| 9 | How far Warnie emulated at this stage of life his father 's fondness for a little drop of whiskey , and at what point he began his calamintous descent into alcoholism is not easy to determine . |
| 10 | The reason for the attraction of the wool is not hard to find . |
| 11 | What they want is a quick response facility to deal with emerging issues , and if the IASC is not prepared to do it , they will take it on themselves . |
| 12 | A multi-national practice is not obliged to obtain authorisation from the Law Society for the conduct of investment business , but may instead seek authorisation from some other regulator . |
| 13 | My only regret is that the college is not able to take more of my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 14 | Although the expressive effect is not easy to pinpoint , one can detect an impression of resultativity , as though the passive abstracts from any particular hearer so that the infinitive evokes the resulting impression that was left with all present . |
| 15 | If the industry is not prepared to meet consumer demand , egg sales and hence egg producers will continue to suffer and the industry will remain in the Dark Ages . |
| 16 | If British industry is not able to compete , of course , there will eventually be no jobs left at all in that sector . |
| 17 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 18 | The country 's largest carrier is not keen to face new battles at home when it is trying to spread its wings overseas , by buying TWA 's slots at Heathrow . |
| 19 | If a witness is not available to attend the hearing after a written statement has been filed and served the court may nevertheless admit the statement as evidence although the lack of opportunity for cross-examination will affect the weight attached to it . |
| 20 | Sovereign is not able to assist with enquiries relating to rail timetables . |
| 21 | This equation is not easy to solve numerically as it stands ; however , if we are given an approximation unc to an eigenvalue , we write unc for the exact eigenvalue , which therefore satisfies ( 4 ) , so that we obtain |
| 22 | Equipment under maintenance is not likely to present any problems , provided that these are correctly diagnosed . |
| 23 | The law therefore sets a point ( although an extremely unclear one ) at which the citizen is not entitled to resist further , and must be expected to endure the indignity or invasion , seeking relief subsequently when he can substantiate that he has been the victim of a police mistake . |
| 24 | The impact on financial reporting is not easy to assess because the exercise is more concerned with rationalizing the SSAPs to fit current reporting practice ( as determined primarily by the law ) than it is concerned with changing current reporting practice by implementation of SSAPs . |
| 25 | A US forces driving permit is not sufficient to allow supervision ( Urey v Lummie , [ 1962 ] 2 All ER 463 ) as a ‘ licence ’ means a licence to drive a motor vehicle granted under Part III of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 26 | These questions are designed to encourage debate and make students aware that in a world of uncertainty accounting is not able to provide the definitive answer . |
| 27 | ‘ somebody who 's not complying with consent conditions and yet is not having much effect on the river , it probably means the consent condition is not right to start with . |
| 28 | As the Polish computer market is valued at around $360m a year , the latter condition is not likely to prove significant . |
| 29 | This condition is not sufficient to guarantee that the correct answer has been found because more than one hypothesis may span the entire utterance . |
| 30 | A princess is not free to choose who to love . |