Example sentences of "it [is] not [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not right to leave a wounded animal — vermin or not . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not right to give orders like that . |
| 3 | It 's not right to call it a boulder problem ; it has 16 moves and is 25 feet long . |
| 4 | I agree with you that it 's not right to call your son names , and that slapping him is potentially dangerous . |
| 5 | And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's not right to say it , but I loved my grandma much more than I loved my mother … |
| 7 | Phillip 's niece , Priscilla Pescott , said at her home in Victoria : ‘ It 's not right to think of Uncle Phillip as just somebody waiting in the wings for Marje Proops . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not right to have boys , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ not when it 's a question of making love . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not possible to say that U2 sound like blah , which is great . |
| 10 | Because they have n't been on the market for long , it 's not possible to say how well they 'll stand the test of time . |
| 11 | Our pond is surrounded by crazy paving and slabs and so it 's not possible to put canes around from which cotton can be stretched across the pond . |
| 12 | As it 's not possible to undo what has happened he earnestly hopes the family will find the strength to get over the pain . ’ |
| 13 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 14 | Yes , as you rightly say , it 's not possible to judge anyone in erm a hundred days . |
| 15 | It 's not possible to do that any more . |
| 16 | This is not a practical way to run a paper and pencil address book because it 's not possible to turn directly to the 3423rd character in a book , and the saving in space would not be worth the tedium involved . |
| 17 | Since the prints of Henry VIII were consigned to the flames at Ealing Studios , it 's not possible to assess what merits Barker 's production may have had , but some idea of the uncinematic monstrosity that was produced is suggested by a contemporary production of Richard III , which consists of 17 scenes played out from the stage to a static camera , interrupted by lengthy titles containing brief pieces of dialogue . |
| 18 | Er there are interests all over an and some er have a higher value er er and some have a lower value but they are all related erm so it 's not possible to regard er a contest solely as an isolated advers adversarial struggle where you 're weighing up the rel the relative forces , the relative military capabilities that exist , you have to consider a whole range of political , economic and strategic effects of , of your , your , your action . |
| 19 | At a common sense level you could argue it 's not possible to have er any kind of relationship without communications so communication equals relationship , relationship equals communication , common sense idea . |
| 20 | Well , I mean I suppose erm I feel as a parent myself that it 's not possible to make tolerable for children a situation which is in fact humanly intolerable . |
| 21 | of state therefore explain why in England it 's prof possible to get a straight answer from the Secretary of State with the figures of the S S A for the last five years , for this year and for next year and it 's not possible to get that for Wales either from the Home Secretary or from the honourable gentl right honourable gentleman . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not unreasonable to believe someone can win all four majors . |
| 23 | Well I think it 's not helpful to look at it with such stark divisions , I think everybody 's clear |
| 24 | Well I just think it 's not helpful to look at it in those terms , you do n't actually , if you pick |
| 25 | Inevitably , the save and sometimes the print facility has been turned off , and it 's not uncommon to find that a limit on file size ( in memory ) is also applied . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not polite to say things like that , ’ said Alice . |
| 28 | It 's not illegal to buy or own replica guns , a flick through any gun magazine reveals how easy it is to get hold of one . |
| 29 | Provided there 's nothing visibly offensive on the cover , it 's not illegal to send catalogues like this through the post . |
| 30 | Well I suppose it 's not far to go home for a well it 'd be nice if we saw somewhere that was nice . |