Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 2 | It is not impossible that on Cuthred 's death in 755 Aethelbald supported Cynewulf against Sigeberht in the ensuing struggle for the West Saxon kingship . |
| 3 | It is not impossible that on this sea voyage he was accompanied by Panaetius , who , according to a very fragmentary and dubious passage of the index Stoicorum , apparently travelled by sea with Scipio at about this time ( col. 56 , ed . |
| 4 | And I have pointed out in my papers that you must bear in mind perhaps that er quite a number of Rich er quite a number of the districts in North Yorkshire are of county scale in their sheer size and that therefore it is not inappropriate that at that level that the policies would be refined . |
| 5 | It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultra vires rule in company law altogether . |
| 6 | It was not surprising that at this moment the image of her mother — the canon 's widow in the dark flat near Westminster Cathedral should rise up before her . |
| 7 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 8 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that in many of the contests over the centuries , no archer has been able to ‘ ding doon ’ the papingo . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that in many or most of the cases , particularly the more modern ones , the act itself is unlawful . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that in modern times English and Commonwealth courts should try to avoid its worse consequences or , as one of Llewellyn 's bêtes noire , that the Uniform Commercial Code should abandon it . |
| 13 | For this reason , it 's not surprising that in some careers friendship blossoms between people taking the same path . |
| 14 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 15 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 17 | It was not surprising that after 5 October , leadership of the mass movement which they had evoked was gently , but firmly , taken out of their hands . |
| 18 | Is it not surprising that after several years of unremitting devolutionist propaganda from the Scottish Constitutional Convention , support for devolution is almost at an all-time low , according to the opinion polls ? |
| 19 | Perhaps they were not aware that in this respect de Pomiane was often simply harking back to his Polish origins , thereby refreshing French cookery in the perfectly traditional way . |
| 20 | I was n't aware that in nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty seven , the government had the same policies it does now . |