Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] relevant to " in BNC.

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1 Much research into early Anglo-Saxon England is accompanied by a high degree of innocence , with time-honoured methods being applied despite their failure to deepen understanding of man 's past ; techniques applied to other periods tend to be excluded as though they are not relevant to an historic period .
2 They are not relevant to his argument , since students of rock climbing would be sufficiently gobsmacked just to be on a top-rope at Land 's End .
3 This latter point is all-important for it means that political considerations are not relevant to the decision which is , of course , primarily concerned with air safety .
4 Costs that are not relevant to the appraisal are ignored .
5 We pray that you will protect your people from squabbles , over matters which are not relevant to your commission of preaching and teaching the gospel throughout the world , so that in this decade of evangelism , your church may be united and strengthened , and not divided and weakened .
6 Matthew 's commitment to Jesus is like that ; the days , the weeks , the months which had gone before are not relevant to the story .
7 It also raises some of the problems endemic to grid technique : the limitations imposed by verbal labels and the difficulty posed by constructs that are not relevant to certain elements .
8 Such security deposits are not relevant to room hirings .
9 During the meeting I was able to make new contacts with UK and EC institutions , but I concluded that of the major EC formal programmes , PHARE and TACIS are not relevant to us , but that the next call from PECO might have something marginal in it .
10 Actually the solution to this minor conundrum is not all that difficult , but it takes us through some steps which are not relevant to our main line of discussion , and so we shall postpone it to an endnote to this chapter ( p. 79 ) .
11 Biographical details are not relevant to what the Cloud-author and Walter Hilton have to say , and about Julian we know only those circumstances which immediately impinge on her visionary experience .
12 As to business activities , a covenant is likely to be unreasonable if it covers activities which are not relevant to the business sold .
13 Redemptions or purchases of non-voting shares are not relevant to Rule 37.1 .
14 but they 're not relevant to that so when you actually come to that you fill in all the relevant details
15 Firstly , they pointed out that as government officials , party matters were not relevant to them .
16 But these points were not relevant to the central issue .
17 The police claimed the records were n't relevant to the case , but the judge ruled they should be disclosed .
18 This is another reason for standardising the rudder movement first , but it is not relevant to gliders with T-tails where no rudder blanketing can occur .
19 There is a view that marketing is not relevant to the needs of less developed countries , since these countries require means of increasing basic levels of output , not means of directing changes of production to satisfy a changing marketplace .
20 ‘ There is no point in bothering your head with stuff that is not relevant to a conviction .
21 This special defence does not extend to anything written or said which is not relevant to the discharge of the duty or the exercise of the right which creates the privilege .
22 Teachers are not trained as innovators and much of the content of teacher training colleges ' curricula is not relevant to this approach .
23 This additional information can be very useful indeed in saving the researcher from looking up an article which sounds as if it would be useful from the title , but which , in fact , is not relevant to one 's particular interest .
24 Rather than just giving a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to a carefully put question from the interviewer the informant can control much more the direction of the discussion and can therefore decide what is or is not relevant to a particular situation .
25 MTCP Circular 67/49 advised that whether a change is a material change comparison with the previous use of the land or building in question is the governing factor and the effect of the proposal on the surrounding neighbourhood is not relevant to the issue .
26 However much truth there is in this view , and it should not be discounted entirely , it is not relevant to the current debate as there is no reason why any such manipulation should be reduced as new technology is introduced .
27 The payments may be described in various ways , for example as interest , or as an amount payable on redemption : the manner in which the obligation is described is not relevant to the classification of the instrument .
28 The £8,000 is a past cost and so is not relevant to the decision .
29 But it is not relevant to a thing 's having the position it has ; it does not mean , for example , that to have the position it has , a thing must be aware of how it stands in relation to something else .
30 This is the kind of data which is not relevant to his objectives and thus it is not recorded in his model .
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