Example sentences of "and [conj] it [be] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We conclude that choledocholithiasis is part of the psectrum of primary sclerosing cholangitis and that it is not necessary to invoke choledocholithiasis as the initial lesion of the bile ducts in such patients . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 3 | Volkenstein ( 1959 ) criticized the theory , mainly on the grounds that it concentrates entirely on barriers to rotation , neglecting intermolecular cohesion , and that it is not applicable to low-molecular-weight polymers , which also form glasses . |
| 4 | It is important to remember that unc is a purely syntactic relation , and that it is not permissible to use the above clauses in conjunction with our laws ( which preserve semantics rather than syntax ) . |
| 5 | They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable . |
| 6 | The results from the experiment showed that , when pointing , adaptation to prismatic distortion of a target did occur and that it was not due to any learned mechanism . |
| 7 | The best known example of this is Liversidge v. Anderson in which the majority of the House of Lords found that the phrase ‘ reasonable cause to believe ’ in wartime emergency legislation would be complied with provided that the Secretary of State acted on what he thought to be such a reasonable cause , and that it was not necessary for there to be objective facts to support this . |
| 8 | The contention was that a co-ordinated approach was needed towards the treatment of offenders , and that it was not appropriate for the Home Secretary 's responsibilities for prisoners to be on a different basis from his other responsibilities . |
| 9 | The auditors said in their certificate that they had used one " methodology " rather than another and that it was not clear from the clause in the lease which methodology they should use . |
| 10 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 11 | Most elderly people find that the visiting officers are friendly , patient , and helpful , and although it is not necessary for a relative to be present , no objection will be raised to this if the elderly person wishes it . |
| 12 | In most cases the horn will be fitted and although it is not necessary to prove why the horn did n't work when operated it may be of assistance to the court . |
| 13 | ‘ Stand ’ is proved by the observations of the officer concerned and although it is not necessary to prove the vehicle had been in the offending position for a particular period of time the court may find it helpful if the officer could give evidence , ‘ The vehicle was parked on Bradford Road from 20.00 hours to 21.00 hours etc . ’ |
| 14 | If the house has a solid floor , that too must have a membrane which extends over the whole of it , and although it is not possible to see it , any defects will show in the form of damp patches under floor coverings , discoloration or loose vinyl tiles . |
| 15 | Although compressed into less than 18 months there are certain similarities between the two revolutions , in their tactics as well as their phases , and although it is not explicit there is a remarkable comparison that may be inferred from Devillers ' brilliant essay in which he describes a Vietminh , at the end of 1946 , already losing momentum and because of that , driven to imprudent acts : |
| 16 | And although it is not clear what was meant by ‘ real ’ crime , it is evident that certain kinds of common theft , damage and injury were regarded as wholly commonplace in pre-war years and hardly worth a moment 's thought . |
| 17 | Merchants were able to secure exemption from it , and although it is not clear who emerged more strongly from disputes in the 1440s , by the 1450s control of the Staple seems to have passed to men hostile to it ( 84 , pp.261 , 270–1 , 273 ) . |
| 18 | In England these were the buyers of boroughs and seats in Parliament , and although it was not possible to do this in Scotland , as there were never any ‘ rotten boroughs ’ in the English sense , those who arranged and meddled in the burgh elections were called ‘ Boroughmongers ’ after the English traffickers in boroughs . |
| 19 | The Colonel was there with his wife and children , and although it was not compulsory for the men to attend mass , there were a large number of legionnaires present , mostly Latin or East European . |
| 20 | the carpet and if it 's not right he can |
| 21 | And if it 's not right , then it 's well it 's your fault ! |
| 22 | So you 've got to watch what you take and if it 's not necessary you do n't take it if you 've got any sense but if you 're gon na take everything on the assumption ju just in case , the just in case , just in cases you know , do n't work all these the fail-safes ten times over you 're overloaded , ah but you 're so much unnecessary weight it all comes back unused , untouched . |
| 23 | You can feel how the child is positioned with your hands and if it 's not well , I turn it round until it 's in the right position . |
| 24 | And if it 's not achievable now , when will it be achievable . |
| 25 | There may be important conditions to be observed ( eg to ensure that the road has been adopted by the local authority ) , and if it is not possible to comply with these , the mortgage may not go through . |
| 26 | If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ . The theory which they comprise is an attempt to articulate the feeling that , for a belief to be knowledge , it must be peculiarly sensitive to the truth of the proposition believed ; it must track the truth ( Nozick 's term ) in the sense that if the proposition were in changed circumstances still true , it would still be believed , and if it were not true , it would not . |
| 28 | Telephoning saves time , both because telephone conversations tend to be shorter than face-to-face conversations and because it is not necessary to spend time travelling . |
| 29 | Individual letters are subject to more variation in cursive writing , depending upon the letters preceding and following it ( Eldridge et al , 1984 ; Wing , 1979 ) , and because it is not clear where one letter finishes and the next begins , a stage of segmentation is usually employed , which introduces more ambiguity . |
| 30 | Because women homeworkers ' wages tended to be small and because it is not clear either how many ‘ hard cases ’ there were , or how large the homeworking sector was , historians have tended to regard this area of women 's employment as being of slight importance . |