Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I am not entirely persuaded that the views of colleagues in this matter were given adequate weight when the final decision was taken . |
| 2 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 3 | It was perhaps part of his general attempt to calm her fears , but it is a potent indication that there was an underlying fear and she was not properly informed that no alternative was available . |
| 4 | Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question . |
| 5 | On the other hand we are not positively told that he was insane , and so we must also consider the unlikely hypothesis that the mistake was merely an act of folly . |
| 6 | Sometimes they are not even informed that the waste is hazardous before it arrives on their doorstep . |
| 7 | No but I mean , the there 's but there 's a lot of people , you see when you say they 're not easily persuaded that are working class that are voting Tory and they 're not easily persuaded they cha |
| 8 | But er Nottingham 's er city that 's proud of its nature it 's not generally realized that there 's about a hundred nature reserves in the City of Nottingham maintained by the city of the Notts Wild Life Trust and er this is great on the outskirts but in the city centre there 's too little nature in it . |
| 9 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 10 | It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe . |
| 11 | It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary . |
| 12 | For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start . |
| 13 | It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development . |
| 14 | If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder . |
| 15 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 16 | It is not generally recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive . |
| 17 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
| 18 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 19 | It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas . |
| 21 | It is not generally appreciated that very many settlement sites exhibit earthworks of several periods . |
| 22 | In revisionist histories constructed for apologetic purposes , it is not usually denied that there were conflicts in the past . |
| 23 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 24 | It is not often recalled that one of the Trust 's earliest acquisitions , in 1909 , was the cottage at Nether Stowey where the poet Coleridge wrote ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’ and began his visionary epic ‘ Kubla Khan ’ . |
| 25 | I was grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that , because it is not often realised that such claims can be made up to three months before the person enters care , although I am aware that the circumstances do not always allow that . |
| 26 | It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve . |
| 27 | Although it is not explicitly stated that this sea-monster was the father of eponymous founder of the Merovingian dynasty , that is clearly the impression which Fredegar intended to give . |
| 28 | However , it is not always recognized that individuality is itself a cultural concept : there can be no private independent real person dissociated from the cultural values which define the society in which the individual lives . |
| 29 | It is not always realized that often a herb will help with digestion generally , — or with the digestion of the particular food with which it is associated . |
| 30 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |