Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] not [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match !
2 Low achievement and social disadvantage are clearly associated , though it is important not to assume that there is a simple relation between them .
3 This is particularly relevant in attitude surveys , where it is important not to assume that people 's expressed attitudes , on , say , race relations , are consistent with their actual behaviour .
4 It is a commonplace to see culture as man 's building , climbing and reaching — indeed , one whole school of anthropology sees it as his tool-making — but it is important not to forget that in man , as in the other primates , intelligent , adaptive behaviour — behaviour , in other words , mediated by the ego — is motivated by his instinctual drives .
5 Its success will depend upon people believing that Mr Lamont knows what he was doing , and that his forecasts are reliable ; and it is difficult not to reflect that an alternative Chancellor would have had carried more conviction .
6 It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ .
7 It is difficult not to conclude that the motive for the ‘ allegations ’ was the political self-interest of the government .
8 It is difficult not to believe that they attached too much importance to Law 's availability .
9 Hunt as the Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey must have been involved , and it is difficult not to assume that he had a conflict of loyalties in this transaction .
10 It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable .
11 Perhaps much of what Sickert taught does not have relevance to all of us today ; perhaps many of his doctrines are outworn , his opinions unsystematic , but looking at the smouldering vigour of the painting , and the sinewy strength of the drawing in the works now on view at the Royal Academy , it is difficult not to feel that here is the work of a real artist , of a man who knew what he was doing — and why .
12 There is no such ring in the Reeve 's Tale , but it is hard not to notice that the motif seems to have been displaced and taken over by Absolon as he approaches Alison 's window for the second time that night , in order to deceive her : A sure example of intertextual inference is found in John 's use of the cradle trick ; he envies Alayn 's success with Malyne , and decides he will " " arise and auntre [ chance ] it " " himself .
13 Knowing Susy with James , it is hard not to believe that inside Hunt there was every bit as much affection and sensitivity as there was extrovertedness and snook-cocking .
14 It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her .
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