Example sentences of "not [adj] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps not accidental that the deputy political manager for the Earl of Ilay , Lord Milton , was the Lord Justice Clerk , for between them the head of the Justiciary Court and the crown law officers controlled the criminal justice system . |
| 2 | It was not accidental that the report of the committee later included the remark , ‘ It is difficult to see what private or public purpose is served by the exaction of untrue confessions , and it is a danger to be constantly guarded against . ’ |
| 3 | It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone . |
| 4 | Eddington thought it was simply not possible that a star could collapse to a point . |
| 5 | In Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4 we read ‘ it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins ’ ( referring to the Old Testament sacrifices ) but in verse 12 we read ‘ But this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever , sat down on the right hand of God . ’ |
| 6 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 7 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 8 | For it is not self-evident that the idea of legal rights is attractive . |
| 9 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 10 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 11 | Only it is not clear that the identification of such a project as state capitalism is damning . |
| 12 | In some languages the grammatical encoding of topic is so prominent , that it is not clear that the notion of subject has the same purchase as it does in the analysis , for example , of Indo-European languages ( Li & Thompson , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath . |
| 14 | Is it not clear that the Government 's self-imposed exile from the main stream of the Community will severely disadvantage the British people ? |
| 15 | It is the dies incertus an , certus quando of the glossators : it is not clear that the day will actually ever come , even though it is clear if it does when it will be . |
| 16 | Over ten years ago Breton and Wintrobe warned that ‘ it is not clear that the behaviour of bureaucrats would be and what kind of models we would be churning out if government revenues were not increasing automatically ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1975 , p. 205 ) . |
| 17 | in addition , it is not clear that the re-ordering is in the direction of simplifying the causal structure of the story . |
| 18 | For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants . |
| 19 | At the time of writing , computer documentation is making the transition to CD-ROM which will eliminate the physical space problem , greatly mitigate access , but it is not clear that the archiving of computer manuals will serve any useful purpose , other than to satisfy the cravings of the occasional computer buff with an obsessive interest in the technology . |
| 20 | The local authority , on the other hand , say that ‘ the care given to the child ’ in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) means the care given by the mother to the child in this case and that , in any event , it is not clear that the child would go to the grandmother 's if a care order was not made , because the mother is still claiming , or was still claiming , that the care should be given to her . |
| 21 | Although it is not clear that the extraversion-introversion dimension is the only personality factor related to arousal ( M. W. Eysenck & Folkard , 1980 ) , there is now considerable evidence that there are individual differences in both levels of arousal and the effects of additional arousal ( e.g. Blake , 1967 ; Colquhoun & Folkard , 1978 ; Revelle , Humphreys , Simon & Gilliland , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | Yet it was not clear that the Act was successful in controlling the situation after 1937 ; in Germany the banning of political uniforms had little effect on the rise of the nazis . |
| 23 | Is it not clear that the multiplicity of often overlapping self-regulating authorities are not adequately protecting the national interest ? |
| 24 | In 1984 , when work started , it was not clear that the task could be completed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Though the Life says that Aethelbald 's happiness as king had grown in succeeding years ( since his accession ) ( Vita Guthlaci , ch. 52 ) , it is not certain that this means that Aethelbald was ‘ apparently at the height of his power ’ , and it is not impossible that the Life dates to a period before Aethelbald had asserted his authority outside his own kingdom — perhaps c . |
| 27 | It is not impossible that the change was influenced by rivalry . |
| 28 | It is not impossible that the situation is harder to tolerate in these households than in those with single carers . |
| 29 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 30 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |