Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not obvious that " in BNC.

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1 Yet it is not obvious that this was the case .
2 It is not obvious that governments should always be free to ban them .
3 It is not obvious that shares are a bargain , though .
4 In the very long term , automated machinery is likely to incorporate automatic diagnostic equipment in order to simplify maintenance , but it is not obvious that this will necessarily reduce the skill content of craft maintenance work .
5 It is not obvious that the grounds for his naturalism would evaporate if he took seriously a wider variety of forms of discourse .
6 Psychological studies could provide some answers , but it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language , identified by the psychologist , will map on to individual brain areas , any more than the computational processes of a digital computer map on to individual parts of its hardware .
7 In the first place , the limits of the imagination are shifting sands , and it is not obvious that anything which at present lies outside them is forever beyond our grasp .
8 As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as
9 And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way .
10 It is also important to note , furthermore , that while the external labour market may act as an incentive for directors to be more diligent , it is not obvious that it will improve the position where they lack flair or are simply inept .
11 Even then it is not obvious that this measure will actually yield the projected area .
12 All the same , it is not obvious that he differed much from his English predecessors in this sort of area , for the Anglo-Scandinavian background outlined in the Introduction again becomes relevant here .
13 To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it .
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