Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] [adj] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | If true observation statements are given , then it is possible to logically deduce from them the falsity of some universal statements , whereas it is not possible to deduce from them the truth of any universal statements . |
| 2 | Several rhynchosaurs have been found in association with fragments of plants ( though it is not possible to say from a juxtaposition of fossils whether those fragments were ever inside the animal ) and the diet probably consisted of leaves , stems , fruit and seeds of seed-ferns , conifers , ginkgos , equisitales ( horsetails ) and ferns ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 3 | The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service . |
| 4 | It is not possible to determine from raw data just how many accidents were directly attributable to excessive speed . |
| 5 | This is only one example , and it is not possible to generalise from this to comment on language behaviour towards Caribbean babies in general . |
| 6 | It is not competent to appeal from the sheriff to the sheriff principal ( Troc Sales Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy District Licensing Board , cit . ) . |
| 7 | In addition the chargee is not obliged to refrain from exercising his rights merely because by doing so he could avoid loss to the company nor does failure to exercise them when the security is declining in value constitute a breach of any duty that he may owe to the company . |
| 8 | I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation . |
| 9 | It is not easy to judge from the vantage-point of the late twentieth century , for in the second half of this century rural life has been more profoundly transformed than at any time since the invention of agriculture . |
| 10 | S. Mark 's Cathedral appears to be a complicated building , not easy to define , either from the façade in the great piazza or from the interior , and it is not easy to view from other aspects as buildings crowd closely upon it . |
| 11 | The extent of language function in the right hemisphere under normal circumstances is not easy to infer from the clinical studies . |
| 12 | Acquisition is not easy to separate from either apprehension on one side or storage on the other , but it implies that learning has taken place in that something new can now be done if appropriate . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to see from Salmon 's publications why more orthodox contemporaries saw atheistical or extreme heretical ideas in them , although his four pamphlets , which were read widely in radical religious circles , were really a highly personal attempt to articulate a nearly inexpressible sense of union with the divine . |
| 14 | It is not difficult to show from documents that most of our villages were in existence in the Middle Ages , but many were certainly not deserted until after 1500 . |
| 15 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 16 | But it is not justifiable to conclude from this that criminal law reflects a value-consensus or even results from the state 's neutral refereeing among competing interest groups . |
| 17 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 18 | The magnitudes of dipole moment derivatives vary widely , and it is not safe to assume from the failure to observe a band that the corresponding mode is symmetry-forbidden . |
| 19 | If we must have ‘ classics ’ let us accept James Steel Smith 's definition of a book that ‘ provides some special imaginative experience which the child is not likely to get from other sources — or at least in the same degree of intensity — and which ‘ it would be a shame for him to miss ’ ( 1967 , p. 121 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not easy to change from having a regular wage to the uncertainty of the co-op , ’ says Santos . |
| 21 | There 's not much change from last year , but how on earth the Private Greens selectors can overlook Myles Greenfield of Dunbarton baffles me . |
| 22 | The toy section in this Oxfam shop in Oxford used to be a honeypot for children , but there 's not much to choose from in it now . |
| 23 | It is n't hard to cross from the islands . |