Example sentences of "it is not [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not believable that a Protestant residential street would have been selected nor is there any instance of such an occurrence on any other occasion . |
| 32 | It is not self-evident that all clarifications or developments of the laws of war have to take the familiar form of multilateral conventions . |
| 33 | It is not self-evident that membership of a trade union should be a condition of participation in industrial democracy ; nor enough for the majority Report to assert , simply as a statement of belief , that ‘ if employees wish to be represented on the board , they must be prepared to organise ’ — that is , to join trade unions — ‘ to make representation on the board effective ’ . |
| 34 | We might accept , for instance , that labouring on property should give the labourer some preferential interest in it ( for example , a right to the value added by the work done ) , but it is not self-evident that any particular set of more extensive rights is warranted . |
| 35 | First , while tighter control over operating units and the exclusion of sub-goals may be achieved , it is not self-evident that the M-form organisation will affect pursuit of divergent objectives at the level of top-management , though Williamson does suggest that formalised goal and capital allocation procedures educe ‘ a profit preference at the top as well ’ . |
| 36 | For it is not self-evident that the idea of legal rights is attractive . |
| 37 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 38 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 39 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
| 40 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 41 | It is not surprising that reductive treatment of consciousness should have this effect . |
| 42 | Since Nicholson 's is an Allied operation it is not surprising that Tetley 's is a fixture in its pubs and Burton Ale can usually be found . |
| 43 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
| 44 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 45 | It is not surprising that the Royal Fine Art Commission should have considered the design inappropriate . |
| 46 | Opera is the communal act of listening to this silent voice from inside : it is not surprising that so many people are hungry for the experience it awakens . |
| 47 | Given the appalling historical baggage which the European far right carries with it , it is not surprising that their inclusion in the Strasbourg assembly has begun to create serious difficulties . |
| 48 | It is not surprising that at independence most governments identified the international companies from the former colonial power as potential agents of neo-colonialism , who could not be trusted to operate with the interests of African countries at heart . |
| 49 | It is not surprising that the references to the past it contains are very brief . |
| 50 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the State is actually worshipped either in the person of a ruler or in a god which it incarnates . |
| 51 | In arguing against the notion that the family is the origin of society , Marx and Engels reverse what they had argued in their previous writing , but Maine 's version of the argument , which gives priority to private property , is even more opposed to their general position , and so it is not surprising that they reject Maine in favour of Morgan . |
| 52 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 53 | In the light of Kemp 's historiography , it is not surprising that he concludes that ideas about perception ( which were often explicitly discussed by ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ' ) had little impact on artists ( p. 237 ) . |
| 54 | Because the established church played a major role in the provision of education before the passing of the Elementary Education Act of 1870 , it is not surprising that the lofty , brick-built church of St Peter shares its site with a school . |
| 55 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 56 | And , given the rather jaundiced view that civil servants had by then formed of the movie business , it is not surprising that they preferred to commend Rank for observing ‘ the normal standards of commercial efficiency and honesty , which have not so far been conspicuous within the film industry ’ than listen to the arguments presented by Palache that budget control on Rank 's film productions was inadequate . |
| 57 | So it is not surprising that China 's leaders have welcomed President Bush 's envoy . |
| 58 | It is not surprising that the total reversal of the ideology of the past is having its effect on Soviet pupils . |
| 59 | It is not surprising that many people , some of whom may have seen the equity in their homes rise tenfold , should decide to spend more . |
| 60 | Given the extremes within the party it is not surprising that there is a continuing feud between those willing to make political deals and those so utterly opposed to the system that they will make no concessions . |