Example sentences of "it not [adj] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not extraordinary that the Leader of the Opposition is incapable of understanding that we might frequently find that monetary and interest rate policies were wholly inappropriate to the requirements of this country if we join a single European currency ? |
| 2 | Is it not astonishing that the Secretary of State , having made a decision on 15 Para , can not or will not answer the pertinent points put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow , Hillhead ( Mr. Galloway ) and the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) ? |
| 3 | Is it not ironic that the Government are introducing the Bill at a time when virtually all the political parties — parties which rarely find common ground , as we have tragically and sadly witnessed over the years — see eye to eye in opposing the scheme ? |
| 4 | Is it not ironic that the company executive driving the Jaguar which I overtake in every traffic jam , is being subsidised by the government to produce the fumes which are damaging the health of every individual , cyclists , pedestrians , motorists themselves , not to mention the ecological damage ? |
| 5 | But all literary conventions have their origin in life ; is it not possible that the wild men were psychotics driven out of towns and settlements by a society unable to cope with them ? |
| 6 | Question directly relating to that point though is it not true that the Eastern Arts withdrawal of the ten thousand pound grant last year was directly related to criticisms made in both in the nineteen eighty six appraisal and subsequently and repeated both to The Star recently what with was that the marketing of the playhouse was drastically inadequate . |
| 7 | Is it not true that the choice for the British people is between our party , which calls for lower taxes and greater spending by the people , and the Labour party , which wants to take people 's money and spend it itself ? |
| 8 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 9 | For example , is it not true that the Roosecote project has received a substantial amount of capital from NORWEB but that the deal has been kept secret ? |
| 10 | Is it not likely that the healing powers are continually trying to maintain order in the system but once the external stresses reach a certain level this can no longer be done ‘ passively ’ but the very attempt to keep a balance produces outward signs which we generally find uncomfortable and so call disease ; which is literally a lack of ease or disease . |
| 11 | Given the record of the European Commission to interfere in every nook and cranny in this country and others throughout Europe , is it not clear that the foreign policy of this country and the European Community should continue to be developed by the Foreign Ministries of the Twelve ? |
| 12 | Is it not clear that the multiplicity of often overlapping self-regulating authorities are not adequately protecting the national interest ? |
| 13 | Is it not clear that the northern Cypriots are afraid that if the troops go they will simply be overrun ? |
| 14 | Is it not clear that the substantial staged increases in respect of the existing bridge are being imposed simply to provide money for the second , privatised bridge ? |
| 15 | Is it not clear that the Government 's self-imposed exile from the main stream of the Community will severely disadvantage the British people ? |
| 16 | Is it not clear that the so-called social measures that he rejected would have led to unemployment and the loss of jobs ? |
| 17 | Is it not clear that the welcome improved prospects for an effective United Nations are due to the Soviet Union 's abandonment in the late 1980s of the aim of intimidating western Europe into submission and expanding its power generally ? |
| 18 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 19 | Is it not shaming that the leaders of great parties can not tell us that they are asking us to set aside our ability to live under laws that we set ? |