Example sentences of "[verb] that it be [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff .
2 Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business .
3 It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all .
4 However , he should recognise that it is not just the consumer who responds to ‘ market forces ’ .
5 Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners .
6 It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained .
7 However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances .
8 When will ordinary people realise that it 's not just god bands that put out records .
9 I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems .
10 I realise that it 's not only an illness , I suppose , but it 's quite selfish in a way .
11 I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school .
12 In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff .
13 However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable .
14 He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election .
15 Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked .
16 But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with .
17 Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression .
18 The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training .
19 However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated .
20 Then I looked at it again and I realized that it was n't too hard .
21 The senator had frowned , then opined that it was not just the fat who were for ever barred from the Oval Office , but even the ugly .
22 When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well .
23 However , his distressed natural fabrics are an eerily beautiful choice for the contemporary aesthete , proving that it 's not always necessary for fashion designers to be timelords too .
24 The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant .
25 Through his haze , Charles realised that it was n't just the crisis that made them so deferential ; it was the part he was now playing , too .
26 Then I realised what I was saying , and it sort of realised that it was n't really a a complimentary thing to say to her .
27 On external relationships , we must use all our influence within the Community to see that it is not just a magnet for new members , which it clearly is already , but an influence for global free trade and payments .
28 Unwisely , he added : ‘ I 'm beginning to see that it is n't enough . ’
29 But the time came when Graham Thomas , who was then the Trust 's Gardens Adviser , suddenly had to produce a report and I began to see that it was n't quite like the old days .
30 And when , after the girl had gone , Laura had gazed about the chaotic-looking living-room , she 'd had to agree that it was n't up to her standards , either .
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