Example sentences of "[is] not [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally assumed that it is not cost-effective to screen either younger or older women , but the achievements of any screening in this area are unclear . |
| 2 | It is not cost-effective to pursue the development of a full information model ( ie showing communication links ) using a flat-file database . |
| 3 | Whilst it is not incorrect to identify all of these as sources , or illustrations , of moral indignation of one sort or another — indeed there are significant connections between them — attempting to fit them into a historical framework which appears to allow only for movements in one direction , i.e. permissiveness followed by control , results in a degree of historical inaccuracy . |
| 4 | It is not useful to insist that these are the result of potty-training . |
| 5 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 6 | The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditional opaque sense , it must be treated as a watercolour . |
| 7 | However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion . |
| 8 | In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment . |
| 9 | 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question . |
| 10 | He insists that in the last analysis there is a fundamental difference between believing in ahi sā , even though it is not possible to behave non-violently in all life 's circumstances , and believing in hi sā . |
| 11 | However , it appears that most ventures are characterized by investments in a project where the uncertainty is so great that it is not possible to evaluate it by means of ordinary criteria for analysis of projects . |
| 12 | It is not possible to reconcile love and possessions . |
| 13 | But it is not possible to reconcile the freedom of individual countries to tax with the freedom of capital movement within the Community . |
| 14 | Lord Keith , along with other British judges , sees the rule in Marleasing as one of interpretation only which leaves the national judge a margin of discretion to find that it is not possible to reconcile national law with Community law . |
| 15 | The needs are so varied and require such specialist and informed help that it is not possible to deal with them here . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , in a book of this size it is not possible to deal with all aspects of obtaining meaning from symbols and images . |
| 17 | It is not possible to deal at length with all of these problems in this single chapter . |
| 18 | It is not possible to deal with every detail in the space of this leaflet , but we hope it provides a basic outline . |
| 19 | 4.26 It is not possible to deal fully with the question of tax . |
| 20 | Whilst it is not possible to fool the private sector repeatedly , issues of credibility and the extent of discretion are important . |
| 21 | The helical axes have significantly different directions in the two structures , and it is not possible to superimpose the helices . |
| 22 | The betting odds here are extraordinarily long ; theory suggests that it is not possible to liberate useful energy this way nor is there any natural phenomenon that gives us confidence that this can occur . |
| 23 | Similarly it is not possible to negotiate if a client has clear rights in a situation . |
| 24 | More 's study ( 1980 ) of skill levels among engineering workers in England over the period 1870–1914 comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to sustain a definite ‘ deskilling ’ thesis on the evidence available . |
| 25 | Generally , it is not possible to act for both a buyer and a seller , for their interests vary . |
| 26 | ‘ If the custodian works alone on the site , sometimes it is not possible to spend much time with a school party — but they are keen to get good support material they can give to teachers . |
| 27 | If it is not possible to attend a back to nursing course there are various distance learning packages available which can be studied successfully at home . |
| 28 | However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search . |
| 29 | Now the the control of the audit commission is on record as stating quite clearly that it is not possible to account the equation . |
| 30 | Although it is the case that many of Freud 's speculations were mistaken , something he half , if not fully , expected would happen within biology , it is not possible to ignore the other aspects of the death-instinct theory which have an application within psychoanalysis , and its extension into sociology . |