Example sentences of "is not [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it hardly supports the conclusion which , without further ado , Berkeley draws from it : that it is not possible that sensible things ‘ should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 2 | It is not accidental that Japanese manufacturers have become eager converts to robots and automation . |
| 3 | When you bear in mind that a 256 colour image at 1024 by 768 pixels is 768K in size then it is not surprising that ordinary monitor controller cards simply can not redraw the screen image with any speed . |
| 4 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 5 | Moreover , with such confidence in the methods of science it is not surprising that educated men of the second half of the century were immensely impressed with its achievements . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that involuntary unemployment may be long term . |
| 7 | In the light of this , it is not surprising that upper-class Indian mimicry of the British lifestyle — the clubs and golf courses , the social etiquette and refinement — now appear incongruous to the point of schizophrenia . |
| 8 | Since and expresses so many connective meanings and as it is so frequent in speech it is not surprising that young children sometimes overuse it in their writing , as in this piece by an 8 year old boy : |
| 9 | It is not surprising that political activity by working-class city dwellers has declined sharply in recent decades . |
| 10 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 11 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 12 | Thus it is not surprising that other people tend to underestimate their abilities and personal qualities . |
| 13 | The larger the group the greater this tendency , argues Olson , and thus it is not surprising that amorphous groups such as consumers , or even economic classes , do not unite in common action to pursue their interests . |
| 14 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 15 | ‘ Evil communications corrupt good manners , ’ says a Greek proverb , and in the polarised world we live in , where name calling and counter-check is the order of the day , it is not surprising that good manners and etiquette have gone by the board . |
| 16 | Since many of these religious sites supported markets and periodic fairs , it is not surprising that substantial settlements developed round them , often with Iron-Age antecedents . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily , and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil , if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found . |
| 18 | The to infinitive is called for with such verbs , so it is not surprising that perceptual verbs should take to before the infinitive when used in the more conceptual inferential sense . |
| 19 | Given that these viewpoints and value bases are so antagonistic , and yet rarely made explicit , it is not surprising that different groups find it so hard to trust and respect each other . |
| 20 | With such evidence of divergent religious feeling , and at a time when antislavery was no longer disciplined by the immediate and agreed task of overthrowing colonial slavery , it is not surprising that organisational pluralism became a feature of the reform culture of abolitionists . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that gonococcal eye infection in newborn babies , a good measure of undiagnosed infection in a community , is extremely prevalent . |
| 22 | It is not surprising that reductive treatment of consciousness should have this effect . |
| 23 | Consequently , it is not surprising that senior churchmen were sometimes related to each other . |
| 24 | As free fatty acids are the precursors of synthesis of triglyceride for incorporation into VLDL in the liver , it is not surprising that VLDL-triglyceride turnover may be increased in diabetics ( Nikkila & Kekki , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that single lines of trees or hedges have proved ineffective — these simply do not provide enough material to scatter or absorb much sound . |
| 26 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 27 | Taking account of this , and remembering that profit figures are produced by accountants who have an array of alternative treatments of the basic debits and credits , it is not surprising that expert financial analysts are not satisfied with a profit figure alone . |
| 28 | It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making . |
| 29 | It is not inconceivable that other organisations would become relevant in the future if I fell ill , but I like to assume that I am not going to fall seriously ill . |
| 30 | John Thornton is not sure that common investment funds are such a good idea . |