Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 2 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 3 | ‘ Our biggest problem with A-levels is that they have not been modified in the light of the GCSE , ’ says Brian Howseman , principal of Luton Sixth Form College . |
| 4 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 5 | One of the most commonly used arguments against the use of probabilistic grammars is that they do not take semantic information into account . |
| 6 | One major difficulty for insects is that they do not have a circulatory blood system . |
| 7 | One of the major differences of the Department of National Savings relative to other financial intermediaries is that it does not hold an asset portfolio to back up liabilities held , and therefore is not constrained by the need to adhere to liquidity , solvency or capital adequacy regulations ( given that funds are backed by the Treasury and are therefore essentially default-free ) . |
| 8 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 9 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 10 | modern traffic calming measures however er I believe we have experts on the Council er in these matters but I believe that by narrowing the road and perhaps giving us pavements because one of our problems is that we have not got a continuous pavement through the village , and it is necessary to cross the road four times in some cases to walk from one end to the other . |
| 11 | The disadvantage of recorded searches is that they do not allow the student personally to experience the interactive capacity of a computer-based information retrieval system . |
| 12 | Although one of gold 's most prized qualities is that it does not tarnish easily , it deserves to be treated with respect . |
| 13 | ONE advantage for small countries in large empires is that they do not have to think up a defence policy : their armies do what they are told . |
| 14 | The one thing I do ask all my patients is that they try not to question whether or not the regression is real during the course of the session itself . |
| 15 | The fundamental weakness of these bodies is that they do not usually own the land they are trying to control , so that the most effective preservation of landscapes may well stem from private landowning bodies that have an interest in conservation . |
| 16 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of mortality during early industrialization , accelerating population growth , and the Napoleonic Wars is that it did not worsen . |
| 18 | A major advantage of the above examples is that they do not require participants to give up their jobs or move away from their homes and families to undertake training . |
| 19 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 20 | However , the plea continually made to us by senior police officers and members of the Police Federation and other organisations representing the police is that they do not have sufficient people . |
| 21 | The basic problem with these killed virus flu vaccines is that they do not provide either complete protection or retain their effectiveness for very long . |
| 22 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 23 | The trouble with this and other moralistic creeds is that they do not allow for the righteous manifestly not enjoying the fruits of their exemplary conduct . |
| 24 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 25 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 26 | Dorset Fire Safety Committee senior fire prevention officer Ian Clark said : ‘ One of the biggest problems with hotels is that they do not maintain the requirements of the Fire Certificate . ’ |
| 27 | One major criticism of many of the major schemes is that they do not subdivide subjects according to consistent characteristics . |
| 28 | What is wrong with the Greens is that they do not acknowledge the profound economic difficulties , and all their attendant national and international jealousies and suspicions , which obstruct the path to an environmentally safer world . |
| 29 | Another difficulty for local authorities was that they had not developed a culture of objective evaluation ; few used good research methods to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative schemes . |