Example sentences of "is not [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person who erects or installs such plant must ensure that the installation is not unsafe or a risk to health . |
| 2 | The ability to speak French is not essential but a willingness to learn would be considered desirable . |
| 3 | It is not believable that a Protestant residential street would have been selected nor is there any instance of such an occurrence on any other occasion . |
| 4 | The manipulation of such traits is not new because a form of genetic engineering has been in operation since humans , c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3.1 ) , first began to select plants and animals for agricultural purposes . |
| 5 | The division is not watertight since a project may be relevant to more than one area of research and , indeed there are overlapping themes and issues between many of the individual projects . |
| 6 | that drinking too much is not clever or a sign of being grown-up |
| 7 | For if the general shape , the location , and the motion of objects can be computed in a low-level , autonomous fashion , then it is not impossible that a kingfisher may possess comparable perceptual mechanisms capable of computing the depth of a fish in water . |
| 8 | Jones ( 1931 ) implies that it can , but experimental work ( e.g. O'Connor and Tooley ( 1964 ) ) suggests that in many cases it is not perceptible unless a speaker is deliberately trying to avoid ambiguity . |
| 9 | Even in the war-fighting role described by Mark Hewish ( Countdown to the cruise , 31 March 1983 , p 878 ) , it is not credible that a 12-yard accuracy is needed to destroy bases , camps , etc with a 10-Hiroshima sized bomb . |
| 10 | ‘ I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Knight and would go further in saying that it is not credible that a karate chop to the base of the nose could cause a fracture of the anterior cranial fossa without considerable damage to the nasal structure . ’ |
| 11 | The court at first instance can always distinguish except in very similar cases , and appeal is not easy unless a judgment is so unreasonable as to be perverse . |
| 12 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 13 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of A level candidates came and come from such schools . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that a Nobel prize was awarded in 1952 to Waksman , though there are many reasons why other contributors were also worthy of honour . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that a few years later , in 1911 , Grahame was to introduce ‘ Mouse ’ to his beloved Cornwall — and especially Fowey — before the boy began school . |
| 17 | Those were the days when a farm worker earned about thirty shillings a week , and three pounds was quite a good wage , so it is not surprising that a Saturday afternoon at the cinema cost tuppence , and four different sweets could be bought for a penny . |
| 18 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 19 | With all these advantages it is not surprising that a great deal of effort and resources go into the provision of simulators for high technology industry . |
| 20 | Given the original form of recruitment of black workers and the operation of racial discrimination it is not surprising that a much larger proportion of black employees are manual workers than the white population in Britain . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that a leading official of the NUT should dismiss the White Paper which collates the present government 's curricular initiatives as ‘ a dose of centralist rhetoric ’ . |
| 22 | AFTER so much disappointment , it is not surprising that a crumb of comfort has driven gold bugs half-crazy with glee . |
| 23 | It is not surprising that a wide range of patterns can develop , from the complex layering of Rhum troctolites to the regularity in parts of the Skaergaard intrusion . |
| 24 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of patients burst into tears as soon as the physiotherapist begins work . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that a PC which can help to design a ship , a skyscraper or an electronic circuit has to be one of the most powerful available . |
| 26 | In an age of secularization , in which religious myths have been ruthlessly unmasked and in which parricidal revolt and protest has been directed as much against God as against other father-surrogates , it is not surprising that a regressive current of feeling , comparable to that which sustained the Neolithic goddess-cults , no longer finds an obvious religious expression . |
| 27 | It is not surprising that a history of milk intolerance was seldom obtained in patients with lactose malabsorption , although dietary intake of diary products was reduced . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here . |
| 29 | The identity of the other treaty members is not determinative when a State is deciding whether to become committed to a multilateral treaty regime . |
| 30 | Dinner is not available but a full English breakfast is offered . |