Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 3 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 4 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 5 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 6 | This practice was stopped after review indicated that it was not of diagnostic value in our hands . |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't an easy task and shows members of the public it is not just fires the fire brigade attends and it is not just cats and dogs that vets deal with . ’ |
| 8 | The fact that the specialist literature ( for example , IRS , 1986a ) continues to make repeated reference to the particular practices of a rather limited number of organizations implies that it is not , as yet , a particularly common one . |
| 9 | Cobalt retorted that it was not an amusing thing to do , pointing a gun at people , and he could not see what Maurin found so funny . |
| 10 | Her eyes strained but it was not repeated . |
| 11 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |
| 12 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |
| 13 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |
| 14 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
| 15 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 16 | The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling . |
| 17 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 18 | However , a close examination of this work shows that it is not strictly ab initio , in that extrapolations are made from calculations performed on other molecules . |
| 19 | Whitehead Mann 's prominence shows that it is not necessary to wholly own a large number of overseas offices to gain and handle top assignments successfully ; its membership of the Ward Howell Group covers its international search needs without incurring the capital expenditure and risk that the Big Four have undertaken . |
| 20 | Such a test is of obvious value to the shoemaker and is the correct test to use but it is not an easy one to analyse in terms of material as opposed to constructional variables . |
| 21 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
| 22 | The natives know that it is not the actual paintings in the caves that activate the Kurunba but the rocks on which they are drawn ; the rocks being imbued with the ‘ spirit ’ of the entities depicted . |
| 23 | For example Barthes 's account of French amateur wrestling asserts that it is not a contest but a spectacle and so the outcome ( who wins ) is not a significant point in the event . |
| 24 | That er erm the county council feels that it 's not able to move toward a preferred general location in advance of the detailed assessment of the criteria . |
| 25 | The fact that this lead time can be substantially reduced under special circumstances means that it is not impossible to produce books much more quickly . |
| 26 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 27 | 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question . |
| 28 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 29 | In its reply , in a memorandum to HM Treasury , the Institute said that it was not convinced that the proposals were needed . |
| 30 | Peter Gillman suggests that it was not until TV South West made a film ‘ A Trust Betrayed ’ , and consulted Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University , that a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence of poisoning and the official view that it could not happen came to light . |