Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 2 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Queen Victoria rises from her throne to address the audience it is hard to believe that it is not real flesh and blood ! |
| 6 | He 's trying too hard to please and it 's not a nice sight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , it is important to realise that it is not always necessary to be able to characterise an employee " as the office " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I know in New York it is wealth that counts , but I am pleased to say that it is not so everywhere . |
| 17 | I I agree it is it 's very difficult to do when it 's not in a real life situation |
| 18 | And it 's difficult to do when it 's not your language . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 21 | Once a man knows of his right it is more difficult to say that it was not reasonably practicable to give notice within a reasonable time . |
| 22 | er the E C has really bought upon itself with the common agricultural policy a big animal that is very slow to move and it 's not really any advantages of each individual . |
| 23 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |
| 24 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 25 | Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation . |
| 26 | Jim was keen to impress that it was not a scale model of anything but a real small narrow gauge locomotive in its own right . |
| 27 | However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals . |
| 30 | He was entitled to say that it was not . |