Example sentences of "that it be not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been brought up to think that it 's not nice and not polite to do so . |
| 2 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | erm For example if erm two people are walking down the street and there 's a certain amount of jostling , then the victim , if he is a victim , may well consider that it 's not violent , or that it 's nothing out of the ordinary , or that it 's something which is acceptable , and then not take the matter any farther . |
| 5 | On the one hand we have the hunting fraternity saying that because they rarely catch and kill foxes , some say a two to three percent efficiency rate , er that it 's not cruel yet on the other hand , they say that it 's the most efficient and humane way to control the fox population . |
| 6 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |
| 7 | I 'm an ex-carer , and I looked after my aunt for three and a half years , and could I say that it 's not all negative although it times you could scream ! |
| 8 | That 's nothing , I probably would say that it 's not contentious , while it 's Institution policy , and |
| 9 | I agree with you that it 's not right to call your son names , and that slapping him is potentially dangerous . |
| 10 | Yeah , I think , I think really the er the er overall view of it is that it 's not serious investment , I mean it is just pure flutter . |
| 11 | So , if you feel strongly about male babysitters , speak out — while making it clear that it 's not personal , it 's just for the sake of your peace of mind . |
| 12 | ‘ The head 's so out of touch with reality that it 's not surprising things are going wrong . ’ |
| 13 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 14 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 15 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 16 | Thousands of people do it every day ; what 's wrong with me that my inside 's screaming that it 's not real ? |
| 17 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 18 | It does n't matter that it 's not real silk . ’ |
| 19 | I agree with you that it 's not feasible that Harley is on some kind of drug — even beta-blockers would n't help a golfer that much . |
| 20 | But the bottom line is that it 's not profitable . ’ |
| 21 | so you could say that it 's not double U |
| 22 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 23 | That er erm the county council feels that it 's not able to move toward a preferred general location in advance of the detailed assessment of the criteria . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's important to acknowledge what they feel , but to point out that it 's not acceptable to inflict injury on other , ’ she says . |
| 25 | I , he er wants to have an image about the Labour Party that 's so far from the reality that it 's not true . |
| 26 | Popek says that it 's not clear that WABI solves the critical question of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 27 | Popek says that it 's not clear that Wabi solves the critical problem of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 28 | , you glance at your watch and discover that it 's not half past is n't it ? |
| 29 | And ministerial statements have actually indicated that it 's not likely to appear , as a final version , until next year at the earliest , and so it would seem to me that there 's a great deal of thought to be gone into the precise wording of that P P G yet , and to rely on quotes from it wou is , is , is at best er , misleading , and I think we ought to bear in mind something that Mr Curtis mentioned this morning , that in fact the change that happened between draft P P G three and the final version , it is quite possible that the final version of P P G thirteen could be substantially different from the |
| 30 | Just that it 's not big enough to have a good public library . ’ |