Example sentences of "[that] it [be] not [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 I agree with you that it 's not feasible that Harley is on some kind of drug — even beta-blockers would n't help a golfer that much .
2 Popek says that it 's not clear that WABI solves the critical question of running Microsoft applications well enough .
3 Popek says that it 's not clear that Wabi solves the critical problem of running Microsoft applications well enough .
4 ‘ I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Knight and would go further in saying that it is not credible that a karate chop to the base of the nose could cause a fracture of the anterior cranial fossa without considerable damage to the nasal structure . ’
5 Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement .
6 All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions .
7 The problem with placing Mary Leapor within this discussion is that it is not certain that she read any of the poems with which these critics are primarily concerned .
8 In general these proposals have not been implemented , indeed the government has stated that it is not convinced that it is right to fund litigation out of public funds , other than through the legal aid scheme , where points of law of general importance are involved .
9 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 .
10 Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be .
11 But it hardly supports the conclusion which , without further ado , Berkeley draws from it : that it is not possible that sensible things ‘ should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ .
12 For this reason he proposed a ‘ research model ’ that has as its central theme the notion that it is not sufficient that the work of teachers should be studied ( either in terms of outcomes or processes ) , but that they should study it themselves .
13 Is the Minister aware that it is not true that there have been no notifications of dumping in the past six months ?
14 Once again the problem is that it is not evident that the testator intended a legal obligation to be created .
15 At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles .
16 Another complaint is that it is not clear that all the matters discussed in part III , perception , memory , induction and a priori knowledge , are forms of knowledge .
17 In some languages the grammatical encoding of topic is so prominent , that it is not clear that the notion of subject has the same purchase as it does in the analysis , for example , of Indo-European languages ( Li & Thompson , 1976 ) .
18 It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door .
19 Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all .
20 In its reply , in a memorandum to HM Treasury , the Institute said that it was not convinced that the proposals were needed .
21 This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed .
22 The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling .
23 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 .
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