Example sentences of "[verb] is not [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that pollution still exists is not sufficient to establish that policy has not been tough enough . |
| 2 | Because it relies entirely on voluntary effort , the Association as currently constituted is not able to face a major expansion without help from the University . |
| 3 | A creditor who failed to lodge his proof before an interim dividend was declared is not entitled to disturb that interim distribution but is entitled to receive a payment in priority to other creditors from further funds as available ; similarly a creditor whose proof is increased after an interim dividend has been declared . |
| 4 | It was reported that BB was the basis of forty-seven per cent of French conversation — how this was computed is not easy to see but people said such things . |
| 5 | Does he accept that what he has announced is not sufficient to deal with the applications from asylum seekers , let alone with other immigration applications which are bottling up Lunar house ? |
| 6 | A good diagrammatic representation to match the adjectival behaviour we have just specified is not easy to devise . |
| 7 | How political and social systems work , how disadvantage and oppression are established and maintained is not easy to make visible , and it is the visible which is privileged in the hierarchy of discourses within the classic realist text . |