Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 2 | It is not cost-effective to pursue the development of a full information model ( ie showing communication links ) using a flat-file database . |
| 3 | I mean … well , I mean , I 'm not sorry to leave the school , leave here , but I 'm sorry to leave you , and I wish I could see you again . |
| 4 | I am not sorry to see the stand go because being shabby , leaky at the back , and all but condemned , it was a constant reminder of the team 's own position . |
| 5 | She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time . |
| 6 | ‘ Not sorry to have a break . |
| 7 | It is not pleasant to read the account of the plot got up to entice Forster 's boyfriend Bob Buckingham away from his wife , and not difficult to agree with PC Daley 's description of the Forster circle as ‘ pimps ’ . |
| 8 | All three people died for different reasons , if it is not absurd to associate the word reason with the hateful and cowardly acts which killed them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If , as Parsons puts it , there can never be an id-impulse as such for the individual , since it must always be seen as part of the expressive symbolism of a common culture , then it is not possible to envisage the possibility of someone being in conflict with their society 's common culture . |
| 11 | It 's simply not possible to form an opinion on it . ’ |
| 12 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 13 | For this reason of re-programming , it is not possible to use the Form area of the E6000 's program when working with very large designs . |
| 14 | It was recognised that it was not possible to use the ballot results to decide on the continuation of the campaign . |
| 15 | However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search . |
| 16 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |
| 17 | In the event the Court of Appeal came to the conclusion that it was not possible to support the judge 's findings based on the absence of agency but equally were unable , on the judge 's findings , to come to a conclusion on the issue of undue influence . |
| 18 | The helical axes have significantly different directions in the two structures , and it is not possible to superimpose the helices . |
| 19 | But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community . |
| 20 | It is not possible to control the part of an index track that is read first . |
| 21 | But without an escapement I think that it is not possible to stop a piano jangling or echoing . |
| 22 | In fact , it was not possible to stop the intervention completely since Olwyn had come to look forward very much to a bedtime story from her father , and to getting stars . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | It was also not possible to correlate the motility of the exercise periods durng the recording as patients were not subjected to any strenuous form of exercise during the recordings . |
| 25 | Hence , it is not possible to replicate the movements in a geometric index with an unchanging portfolio of shares . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , it is not possible to foresee the extent and nature of any such activity at a particular time , and we are therefore unable to issue information updates on these rapidly changing local conditions . |
| 27 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In this case it was not possible to explore the effects of different levels of risk on recognition of different exemplars of the same junction . |
| 30 | 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 . |