Example sentences of "not [adj] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , although it is understandable that the external leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organisation may be excluded at the moment , it is not understandable that the Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem should be excluded from the process . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 6 | Eddington thought it was simply not possible that a star could collapse to a point . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But all literary conventions have their origin in life ; is it not possible that the wild men were psychotics driven out of towns and settlements by a society unable to cope with them ? |
| 10 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 11 | To puritan divines such as William Perkins and William Pemble , it was not self-evident that the works of science were good works . |
| 12 | It is certainly not self-evident that the central institutions of political democracy are , in their present forms , well designed to play their central role in a democratic polity and society . |
| 13 | First , while tighter control over operating units and the exclusion of sub-goals may be achieved , it is not self-evident that the M-form organisation will affect pursuit of divergent objectives at the level of top-management , though Williamson does suggest that formalised goal and capital allocation procedures educe ‘ a profit preference at the top as well ’ . |
| 14 | For it is not self-evident that the idea of legal rights is attractive . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | First , it is not clear that a ‘ rational ’ capitalist would necessarily wish to subordinate and cheapen the mass of labour to the greatest possible extent . |
| 18 | Disgruntled Conservative agriculturalists and imperialists resented Bonar Law 's dropping of the ‘ food taxes ’ in the winter of 1912–13 , and although he survived the initial furore sparked by this decision it was not clear that the ill feeling had been fully dissipated or his leadership wholly secured . |
| 19 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 20 | It is not clear that the rules in Common Law and Equity were quite the same on these subjects ; but , at any rate , Equity had a special protection for the party who had suffered . |
| 21 | But it is not clear that the declining overall effectiveness of the police and of criminal justice is because of internal failings so much as because of the overwhelming growth of work-load due to growing social and economic inequality coupled with moral deregulation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Moreover , it is not clear that the changes which took place were related so much to any general process of social change as to the specific economic and social changes which occurred in Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | in addition , it is not clear that the re-ordering is in the direction of simplifying the causal structure of the story . |
| 26 | This would n't be surprising in some ways , since it is not clear that the visual system is organized in the same way in all species . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In 1984 , when work started , it was not clear that the task could be completed . |
| 29 | Only it is not clear that the identification of such a project as state capitalism is damning . |
| 30 | The standard left response to the kind of argument put by Gaitskell was that the party should be ‘ more socialist ’ and would thereby gain more working class support , but it is not clear that the left opposition within the party had a political project which could have commanded mass popular support among the working class in the 1950s . |