Example sentences of "[is] [adv] not [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is perhaps not surprising since from the earliest stages of domestication , dogs have been kept for guarding purposes .
2 Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration .
3 Given these qualities of the PDMs , it is perhaps not surprising that in his 1960 study Fiedler concluded that the most effective work groups were led by psychologically distant managers and not by psychologically close managers .
4 And it 's certainly not available in sufficient detail for for all of the sectors to make a fair comparison and I think Mr has made this point in in when you 've questioned him a number of times today that the information is just not available or to hand to make to make that comparison .
5 It is then not surprising that for a very long period the most difficult problems in the social relations of cultural practice revolved around the question of literacy .
6 It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultra vires rule in company law altogether .
7 As we shall see , this connection although appearing neat is certainly not tidy because in many ways Japanese industrial relations are not nearly the radical contrast with the West that they first appear .
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