Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] therefore not " in BNC.
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| 1 | President and founder Bernard Liautaud , and director of UK operations , John Powell , hail from Oracle Corp , and it 's therefore not surprising the firm does most of its work at Oracle sites and with Oracle application developers . |
| 2 | President and founder , Bernard Liautaud , and director of UK operations , John Powell , hail from Oracle Corp , and it 's therefore not surprising the firm does most of its work at Oracle sites and with Oracle application developers . |
| 3 | The authorities do not require other methods of recovery to be tested , and it is therefore not always possible to be sure whether using the aileron , for instance , will flatten the spin and make it more difficult to stop . |
| 4 | Unlike many antibiotics , the antifungal agents commonly used are not absorbed from the gut and it is therefore not effective just to give tablets or capsules by mouth . |
| 5 | In a nearly cloudless country such as Egypt observation of the sun was a useful way of telling the time and it is therefore not surprising that the earliest known solar clock has been found there . |
| 6 | Throughout Iranian thought there was a tendency to dualism , and it is therefore not surprising that two distinct forms or aspects of time were recognized : indivisible time , that is the eternal ‘ now ’ , and time that is divisible into successive parts . |
| 7 | Consequently , all translations of carpet names and terms are strictly phonetic , and it is therefore not surprising to find wide variations in the spellings of individual towns , weaving groups and designs . |
| 8 | Having to work from different angles makes it extremely difficult to maintain an even symmetry throughout the design , and it is therefore not surprising that nomadic rugs sometimes contain motifs of slightly varying sizes ; the fact that so many are perfectly balanced and symmetrical is a glowing testament to the weavers ' skill . |
| 9 | Modified accounts are not intended to give a fair and true view of the company and it is therefore not necessary for such accounts to comply with the disclosure provisions of SSAP . |
| 10 | It is obviously advantageous for an animal to receive more detailed information about where it is going to than about where it has come from , and it is therefore not surprising that as well as the mouth at the front end of the planaria there is a concentration of sense organs , such as light-sensitive eyepits , and to process the information arriving from these sense organs there is a group of ganglia concentrated in the head — forming at last the forerunners of real brains . |
| 11 | They testify to the fact that a colossal amount of wealth passed through royal hands , and it is therefore not surprising that control of the royal treasury was a significant factor in Merovingian politics . |
| 12 | ‘ If we let our children go when they are young , they are gone from us forever , and it is therefore not surprising when youngsters turn to childish misdemeanours and graduate to serious crime . ’ |