Example sentences of "be not [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I am not sure why the hatred exists .
2 I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does .
3 I am not sure why the Minister would not take that on board .
4 ‘ I am not sure about every minute .
5 I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn .
6 I am not certain why the other three crew members were not included on the memorial as none of the bodies were recovered .
7 If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility .
8 We are not sure why the Greeks chose the number 360 but it may have been because 360 can be divided up in a lot of different ways .
9 We are not sure how the land masses lay , but they certainly bore no resemblance in either form or distribution to modern continents .
10 This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form .
11 Or , wh what that , that we just give out grants , and we 're not responsible how the money is spent .
12 The pocket zips are good quality plastic , so I 'm not sure why the main zip is lightweight metal .
13 So I 'm not sure where the smaller one 's come out of .
14 I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans .
15 but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period
16 If , however , the salvage is not worthwhile then the remains should not be taken up and the Policyholder should be told that its disposal is again their responsibility .
17 If the algorithm is not admissible then the decision to end the search is fairly arbitrary .
18 If the fit is not good then the parameters of the model are adjusted until a good match between real and simulated observations is found .
19 If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate .
20 This information is not available thus no recommendation can be made regarding this issue .
21 Secondly , computer mapping allows the user to experiment ; if the final product is not satisfactory then the labour involved in redrafting the map is negligible in comparison with manual methods .
22 Assuming , on facts such as those in Bartlett , that the directors have sufficiently researched a project , it is not evident how a court could determine whether the expected profits justify the risks involved , and this is likely to be the case with respect to much business decision making .
23 It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) .
24 The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow .
25 It is not obvious how the neural control of speech differs as between well-lateralised individuals and those with bilateral speech representation .
26 However , a second drive forward is not permissible once a rolling maul becomes stationary .
27 ‘ It is not clear why a few of the many people who carry this bacteria go on to develop TSS , while the majority do n't .
28 * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study .
29 It is not clear why the local police did not start the search immediately .
30 It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes .
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