Example sentences of "not be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might it not be possible that ours is indeed the only Universe , and that it represents the ‘ best line ’ through all the trillions of probabilities ? |
| 2 | It was above all his Dickensian capacity to take in social detail as part of a social sense that need not be political that Griffith really passed on to the American motion-picture industry . |
| 3 | It may not be coincidental that two of the long survivors with very low CD4 counts were also the oldest patients in the study , and it remains possible that the genetic background or immune changes responsible for AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis are , with increasing age , more likely to indicate a good prognosis independently of the CD4 count . |
| 4 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 5 | It is true that , without a test , a country like Iraq could not be sure that its bomb would go off . |
| 6 | But knowledge of the English burnings was widespread , and Scottish Protestants could not be sure that something similar might not now happen to them . |
| 7 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 8 | We can not be sure that , in choosing a place and time , God was making a point about gender . |
| 9 | On a global level , client satisfaction is clear as client numbers are increasing , but still the CAB can not be sure that its own aims of offering accurate and impartial advice and information are fulfilled . |
| 10 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 11 | It seems probable that a mixture of the two factors is involved , but we can not be sure that this is the case and we most certainly can not say which is more important than the other — let alone quantify ( in terms of percentages ) their relative importances . |
| 12 | As soon as the stigma is revealed and exposed , you can not be sure that some keen and inquisitive insect wo n't beat you to it and carry in pollen from heaven knows where . |
| 13 | Without a test , a renegade bomb-builder could not be sure that his bomb would go off . |
| 14 | Until the proper motion of the pulsar is measured , we can not be sure that this star is its optical counterpart , but it seems likely . |
| 15 | We can not be sure that they do so directly for so far no adult eel has been caught in mid-Atlantic . |
| 16 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 17 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 18 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 19 | unc is equivalent to unc This law simply says that every behaviour of Q is also possible for p ; thus in observing Q we can not be sure that we are not looking at P. unc induces a natural partial order on occam terms ( factored under the equivalence induced by the domain ) . |
| 20 | Even where the name is recorded early on , however , we can not be sure that we are dealing with the same site , bearing in mind the movement implied above . |
| 21 | We can not be sure that this is a sign of ( p →d ) π bonding in the Si compound ; the delocalization could involve the SiH bonding or anti-bonding levels of e symmetry . |
| 22 | They can not be sure that their children will be able to go to school or that they will receive medical treatment throughout their lives . |
| 23 | For example , even with the widely used psychological scales , such as those for measuring intelligence or extroversion , we can not be sure that an IQ of 145 points is really greater than one of 144 . |
| 24 | Bound up with the question of compliance with specification is the question of acceptance , since , until the goods have been accepted by the buyer , the seller can not be sure that he has discharged his basic liability to perform the contract , even if he has delivered the goods to the buyer . |
| 25 | This means that firms can not be sure that they will be protected from allegations of breach of fiduciary duty , merely because they comply with the rules of their regulator . |
| 26 | And if in fact this large area of industrial development is not taken up , you can not be sure that the bits that are not taken up will be the least environmentally sensitive . |
| 27 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 28 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 29 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 30 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |