Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very difficult to provide identical conditions for the measurement of six different forms of instruction , therefore it is not entirely surprising to see that Baldwin and Rudolph found , in contrast to Kuo 's results , when comparing a tape/slide show and a library tour , that the former was not necessarily superior as a method of instruction . |
| 2 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 3 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 4 | It 's not entirely fanciful to suggest that the Church of England is a kind of conglomerate . |
| 5 | This is perhaps inevitable because in such cases it is not entirely illogical to argue that if the information was already publicly known why should anyone want to publish it or sell it ? |
| 6 | Now I 'm not so stupid to believe that we 'll always necessarily agree on how those objectives should be met . |
| 7 | In creating artificial forms they were not only careful to ensure that their siting was appropriate but also that all the elements in the design , such as shape , proportion and size , respected Nature rather than acted against it . |
| 8 | It 's not terribly smart to admit that you vote Tory . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is perhaps not overly optimistic to think that the view of the relation between an event and its support put forward here may be applicable , mutatis mutandis , to the -ing form and may even throw light on the vexed question of gerund vs participle . |
| 10 | However , when a distortion can not be removed from one market it is not generally efficient to ensure that all other markets are distortion-free . |
| 11 | There are two problems here : the first that is it is not always easy to determine that censorship has taken place in libraries . |
| 12 | A disadvantage is that it is not always easy to ensure that a student gains ‘ core ’ knowledge of the subject . |
| 13 | Certainly it is not always correct to assume that older people are ‘ safe ’ in the hands of medical professionals . |
| 14 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 15 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 16 | She felt herself to be still very slightly dazed , disorientated enough to give the impression that she was a disinterested observer of the scene and not quite able to realise that these things were in fact happening to her . |
| 17 | IT 'S NOT too surprising to discover that House Of Love 's mainman , Guy Chadwick lives in a house that is , literally , a house of love . |
| 18 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 19 | It is not too strong to say that it is impossible to test Marx 's thesis regarding the labour theory of value at a micro-economic level because Marx and Marxists have totally disregarded any element of profit which may result from risk-taking . |
| 20 | It is not too strong to say that the ultimate economic problem — choice under conditions of scarcity — results from this radical rupture in the natural world and in human personality . |
| 21 | perhaps it is not too strong to say that in national firms or boutiques the culture is defined by the owner or founder of the business . |
| 22 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 23 | But perhaps it is not too simple to suggest that we are also conscious of Zuckerman as a deflection of the wrath over Roth which works by making Zuckerman responsible for the outrage . |
| 24 | it is not too fanciful to say that they need to be loved and welcome our presence . |
| 25 | A Friday afternoon class not too prepared to believe that art was the most important thing that they could be doing at that time soon discovered they were wrong . |
| 26 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 27 | One can only speculate about the line the UK legislature would take , should it address itself to this problem , except that it is not too difficult to predict that the present administration would change the law so as to minimise the protections afforded to the worker . |
| 28 | This is a sad state of affairs , particularly to be deplored when it is not too difficult to see that a church organisation might well find itself put into the category of a nationalised business . |
| 29 | It is not too difficult to prove that K 1 and K 2 are the minimum and maximum curvatures for any plane section through the surface at O containing ON . |
| 30 | From past experience with UK rules that allow ‘ discretion ’ , it is not very hard to imagine that the practice might bear little resemblance to the ‘ aim ’ of the policy . |