Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our study of exotic tribal religions , however , enables us to come to terms with this tantalizing problem at a safe distance ; indirectly it makes it easier to realize that it is not the presence of such beliefs that is odd or unusual but their absence . |
| 2 | Prompting some to suggest that it 's not only his tongue that should be examined . |
| 3 | As to accountability ; this implies that it is not sufficient for a government to justify its existence because at some time in the past it was representative of popular opinion ; for the two may have diverged since then . |
| 4 | This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too . |
| 5 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
| 6 | This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly . |
| 7 | This means that it is not necessary to reject totalization as such — because such a rejection assumes its very possibility , whereas all attempts at totalization such as Sartre 's demonstrate rather its impossibility . |
| 8 | This means that it is not necessary to require that the wavefunction is unchanged by the interchange of two identical particles but simply to specify that if it does change it does so in one of these trivial , physically equivalent , ways . |
| 9 | This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway . |
| 10 | Well , people who stake their opposition to factory-farming on this kind of consideration should be prepared for a long , heated debate , with one set of ‘ experts ’ declaring that thus-and-so is true , while another declares that it is not . |
| 11 | This suggests that it is not the findings , the products of enquiry , that we should apply but the process of enquiry , the conceptual analysis , observation and experimentation which research exemplifies . |
| 12 | This suggests that it is not only at the levels of syntactic and semantic analysis that language processing is interactive . |
| 13 | To change from Mozart to Shostakovich in seven or eight hours , travelling to different country to do so — it is n't absolutely needed , but it 's not easy to understand that it 's not needed . |
| 14 | The Countryside Stewardship Scheme and other environmental protection measures are to be applauded but it is sobering to realise that it is not a new problem . |
| 15 | Some species , Rosa moyesii for example , seed themselves with such abandon that it is not at all unusual to find self-sown seedlings growing freely underneath the shrub , and others are enough to tax the patience of a saint — that is all part of the challenge . |
| 16 | As Queen Victoria rises from her throne to address the audience it is hard to believe that it is not real flesh and blood ! |
| 17 | He 's trying too hard to please and it 's not a nice sight . |
| 18 | I am very sure that you will agree with me , if I may borrow a phrase from Joyce , that we all hope that it 's not at all unlikely that George Craig will come again to preach . |
| 19 | However , our earliest manuscript of Exodus dates from about 250 BC , and all agree that it is not an original and that Exodus must have been composed much earlier . |
| 20 | Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money . |
| 21 | Many escape and it is not unusual to have a blank day out hunting , when no fox is hunted mostly because of poor scenting conditions . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman and I might be able to agree that it is not unadjacent to the fact that so many inner London authorities are controlled by the Labour party . |
| 23 | Thus a member that protests from the outset of institutional action that is not sanctioned by the constitutive treaty should be able to claim that it is not bound by that action . |
| 24 | Disruptive behaviour has a direct and , at times , devastating impact upon teachers , but it is important to establish that it is not a recent phenomenon . |
| 25 | It is important to remember that it is not the spelling of individual words that you are trying to teach , but the basic spelling patterns , so that pupils can spell correctly words they have n't been taught but want to write . |
| 26 | Many of the farmers on the committees , whether council or ministerial appointees , are conservationists too and it is perhaps important to stress that it is not the quality of the individuals involved that is of concern . |
| 27 | However , it is important to realise that it is not always necessary to be able to characterise an employee " as the office " . |
| 28 | Even if we are able to show that it is not possible for there to be people who feel as we do but have no disposition to behave as we do , or vice versa , the behaviourist way of doing this seems too extreme . |
| 29 | It should be noted that the trend of an increase in unemployment from about 5% to about 10% over ten years is sufficiently general to indicate that it is not a function of the style of government . |
| 30 | I know in New York it is wealth that counts , but I am pleased to say that it is not so everywhere . |