Example sentences of "not [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to argue that Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 deems that interest to belong to the American . |
| 2 | It 's not possible to say that U2 sound like blah , which is great . |
| 3 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 4 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 5 | He was not afraid to show that Johnny is this guy with all of these problems on his sleeve . ’ |
| 6 | I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy . |
| 7 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
| 8 | It is not naive to argue that politicians , or if you prefer some politicians , have commitments to ideals . |
| 9 | It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems . |
| 10 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 11 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 12 | It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ . |
| 13 | It is not encouraging to learn that Saudi Arabia and other states in the region are in the market for additions to their present arsenals of weaponry , seeking in particular equipment used successfully during Desert Storm like the F-15 Eagle fighter , the M1 battle tank and the Rockeye cluster bomb . |
| 14 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 15 | As a result of these liabilities , it is not practical to think that AEA as a whole could be privatised . |
| 16 | Minton , on the other hand , was not pleased to learn that Ricky was seeing Jenny regularly , and , despite her vivacity and love of fun , never liked her . |
| 17 | In the absence of other evidence it is not unreasonable to assume that numbers of this order persisted into the early 1900s . |
| 18 | It is therefore not unreasonable to propose that bile salts might be the inhibitory component in the venous effluent . |
| 19 | ‘ With these rent levels , it is not unreasonable to suggest that companies in the South-East who are considering relocation are now thinking again , ’ said Mr Stringer . |
| 20 | It 's fairly clear when you would use a book or an Overhead Projector or a magazine picture in your teaching and it 's not difficult to see that video makes a different contribution . |
| 21 | It is often not difficult to determine that relationship , but the point about it is that it is not but must be figured out by every reader . |
| 22 | Arguing along these lines it is not difficult to show that cars is the semantic head of extremely fast cars ; to resolve the clash in ? |
| 23 | It is not necessary to suppose that Wilfrid behaved treacherously to Aethelwealh in associating with Caedwalla ; the warfare between the two was probably outside his control . |
| 24 | It is not necessary to believe that Christ will be here tomorrow , although it may help to believe that he will be here some time . |
| 25 | One is not obliged to believe that Freemantle was a good poet . |
| 26 | With that perspective , it is perhaps not surprising to discover that decision makers often find the external information delivered to them by knowledge workers to be not as valuable in helping to solve the task in hand as they would have wished . |
| 27 | It is also not surprising to discover that Sanskrit could serve as a model for advanced computer language . |
| 28 | In such a context , then , it is not surprising to find that skill sharing will occur more frequently and easily , and that job rotation may be used to facilitate both formal skill sharing and informal learning amongst employees ( Koike , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Under these conditions , it is not surprising to find that superiors and subordinates hold optimistic and pessimistic views about each other . |
| 30 | It is not surprising to find that imprecision is an important factor in promoting an informal speech style . |