Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 32 | Add to this the development in artificial lighting where the emphasis tends to be on cost saving and it is not surprising to find that this preference has more to do with the building professional 's training than satisfying the needs of the occupants . |
| 33 | It is not surprising to find that imprecision is an important factor in promoting an informal speech style . |
| 34 | Consequently , it is not surprising to find that none of these mosaics is assignable , confidently , to a period before 330 ( or that all but no. 16 could be of the third quarter of the fourth century ) . |
| 35 | Given the uneven provision of training officers already noted , it is not surprising to note that the extent of planning is uneven , and varies considerably . |
| 36 | Given its rather élitist duties , it is not surprising to note that the PSBC would be funded out of taxpayers ' money and rents paid by ITV contractors and not by the ( few ) consumers of its products . |
| 37 | With more nitrogen , less condensed tannin and less enzyme inhibition in the young leaves of Shorea compared with Eugenia , it is not surprising to discover that they suffered more damage . |
| 38 | As a result of these liabilities , it is not practical to think that AEA as a whole could be privatised . |
| 39 | In view of the differences in the natures of their jobs and in their locations , and in view of the lack of any mention of a connection between the two men , it is not impossible to suppose that they held their offices contemporaneously , that while Molla Yegan held the office of Mufti In conjunction with his other offices in Bursa , perhaps even retaining some official precedence over Fahreddin Acemi , the latter was appointed to an entirely new office , the Mufti of the capital , which was then Edirne . |
| 40 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 41 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 42 | It is not correct to say that the Government Select Committee on Health has recommended a continuation of the current system of voluntary agreements on tobacco advertising as opposed to an EC ban . |
| 43 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |
| 44 | While it is not possible to demonstrate that any of the Continental braids are of Anglo-Saxon , even Kentish , manufacture , the very close similarity between some examples on each side of the Channel makes it possible that they are at least from the same source . |
| 45 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 46 | It is not possible to argue that Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 deems that interest to belong to the American . |
| 47 | It is not possible to argue that because the income is trading income s739 does not apply to that income ( Latilla v IRC ( 1943 ) 25 TC 107 and IRC v Brackett [ 1986 ] STC 521 ) . |
| 48 | It is not possible to say that the material as to the second audit must be irrelevant . |
| 49 | It is not possible to say that all agents owe the same duties to their principals : it is always necessary to have regard to the express or implied terms of the contract . |
| 50 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 51 | The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future . |
| 52 | It is not possible to say that these families were typical of all Caribbean families in London . |
| 53 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 54 | At the limit , it is difficult to see how an emphasis on measured results is consistent with multilateralism ; it is not possible to imagine that the GATT could police hundreds of agreements , each with its own predetermined measure of success . |
| 55 | We can know how things are in front of our noses , maybe , but it is not possible to know that an altruistic act is morally good , nor that God exists , nor that you will have eggs for breakfast tomorrow . |
| 56 | For example , it is not uncommon to hear that the carer ‘ cracked ’ when a parent is incontinent immediately after leaving the toilet . |
| 57 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 58 | It is not encouraging to learn that Saudi Arabia and other states in the region are in the market for additions to their present arsenals of weaponry , seeking in particular equipment used successfully during Desert Storm like the F-15 Eagle fighter , the M1 battle tank and the Rockeye cluster bomb . |
| 59 | With such a concentration of union representation it is not unreasonable to conclude that ‘ Labour unions are so structured and their membership distributed in such a way as to defend the privileges of the elite ’ ( McGown 1980 p.111 ) . |
| 60 | However , it is not unreasonable to argue that trying to meet the measurement standards of natural science is to inflict a crippling over-ambition on social research . |