Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 2 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 3 | Now , is it not possible that it is this rule which is the explanation of our referring to the feelings produced in our bodies by prolonged contact with hot or cold objects , as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ ? |
| 4 | Is it not clear that it is not ambulance staff which have withdrawn the emergency cover from London , but the management ? ’ |
| 5 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 6 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |
| 7 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 8 | However , it is not clear that it is substantially more humiliating and distressing than forced acts of oral sex or object penetration . |
| 9 | Is it not clear that it is an untried system , which is clearly producing a two-tier system for many patients , who are not receiving the very best care because their GP practices are treated as inferior to those that hold contracts ? |
| 10 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 11 | However , this classification is illuminating only to the extent that apposition is well understood , and it is not clear that it is , or even can be . |
| 12 | That 's right and the point really is with time , you 're not interested that it 's two twenty four . |
| 13 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 14 | It was decorated with purple tulips , and it was hardly ever used , for Mrs Maugham was not unaware that it was something of an anachronism . |
| 15 | Pearce is not convinced that it is any tougher to be a top executive today than in the past , despite the faster pace and greater complexity of modern business activities . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ If the tape is real — and I am not convinced that it is — it is without doubt damaging to the monarchy . |
| 17 | Despite the excitement over Flash memory , SGS Thomson is not convinced that it will replace EPROMs , which remain a cheaper alternative . |
| 18 | But officers were then immediately faced with the problem of how to implement the decision through DHAs not convinced that it could be done . |
| 19 | As I say I 'm I 'm not convinced that it 's air conditioning erm , but then again there 's more detail , more data that 's required . |
| 20 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 21 | In general these proposals have not been implemented , indeed the government has stated that it is not convinced that it is right to fund litigation out of public funds , other than through the legal aid scheme , where points of law of general importance are involved . |
| 22 | Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers . |
| 23 | ‘ IBM will say it has the same API everywhere , and that users can retain code ’ , he says , ‘ But it 's not promising that it will work unchanged ’ . |
| 24 | It is not likely that it was at once allowed to develop in complete freedom , when that was a characteristic foreign to the Roman legal tradition . |
| 25 | Research has shown that we are normally not conscious that it takes place , but that we are uncomfortable if it is missing when we would expect it or present on inappropriate occasions — for example in a greeting from a complete stranger . |
| 26 | It is also important to note , furthermore , that while the external labour market may act as an incentive for directors to be more diligent , it is not obvious that it will improve the position where they lack flair or are simply inept . |
| 27 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 28 | She remembered the needle going into flesh , but she was not sure that it had been her own . |
| 29 | It 's a new recipe but I 'm not sure that it 's entirely successful . |
| 30 | But I 'm not sure that it is n't a house to admire rather than to live in . ’ |