Example sentences of "not [adj] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 32 | However , it is not clear that it is substantially more humiliating and distressing than forced acts of oral sex or object penetration . |
| 33 | Is it not clear that it is an untried system , which is clearly producing a two-tier system for many patients , who are not receiving the very best care because their GP practices are treated as inferior to those that hold contracts ? |
| 34 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 35 | However , this classification is illuminating only to the extent that apposition is well understood , and it is not clear that it is , or even can be . |
| 36 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 37 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 38 | That 's right and the point really is with time , you 're not interested that it 's two twenty four . |
| 39 | It is not fortuitous that they follow the railway lines from Petrograd and Moscow . |
| 40 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 41 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 42 | Elsewhere , in the Danube province of Upper Moesia , stratores were to be found supervising road stations at both Nis ( Naissus ) and Cuprija ( Horreum Margi ) , and it is not impossible that they were doing the same in Britain . |
| 43 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 44 | It is not impossible that his severity on Galileo was one way of saving face — an attempt to placate prominent Jesuits still smarting from wounds that Galileo had inflicted on their colleagues in earlier debates about the nature of sunspots and comets . |
| 45 | It must now be doubtful that he will ever do so , doubtful , but not impossible that he should . |
| 46 | He would miss her when she 'd gone , certainly , and it was not impossible that he might be driven to drink away his grief , resulting in one of his rare fits of violent temper . |
| 47 | It is not appropriate that we have a blanket policy at the strategic level and the need for this particular policy it would seem to me is unproven . |
| 48 | It was decorated with purple tulips , and it was hardly ever used , for Mrs Maugham was not unaware that it was something of an anachronism . |
| 49 | He is not unaware that he brought this on . |
| 50 | You 're not serious that they 're going to go to nothing could always go down a hundred . |
| 51 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 52 | But it is not such that we are obliged to interpret an order to be obeyed as an expression of a belief about the other sort of order . |
| 53 | Thus ( i ) neither may precede the other , or ( ii ) they are not such that one necessitates the other while the other merely dependently necessitates it , or ( iii ) they may lack both features . |
| 54 | Now a woman is not such that she can signify authority ; that is to say , she does not have the sign-quality 9 which could signify authority . |
| 55 | I am still not convinced that they are as efficient at policing claims and repair costs as they could be . |
| 56 | and I 'm not convinced , I am not convinced that they , that they are anywhere near the standard they used to be when they were last in Europe a few seasons ago |
| 57 | I am not convinced that what is going on is a ‘ compensatory ’ secondary circuit of capital parallel to industrial production , but something is happening with residential and retail land development which appears to be separate from industrial production . |
| 58 | I 'm not convinced that we can establish exactly what we 're after erm the sort of conversation or communication |
| 59 | But I am not convinced that he truly stays this extra five furlongs , and BURGOYNE will stretch his stamina to the limit . |
| 60 | Some clearly shared David Stockman 's notoriously low estimate of Reagan 's intellect and were not convinced that he had an adequate understanding of the intricacies of economic policy-making . |