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

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1 I am not wholly retracting that , but as Martin Davies said in the speech to which I refer , when questioned about the relationship between NCC and SEAC and our traditional disease .
2 And I am not entirely persuaded that the views of colleagues in this matter were given adequate weight when the final decision was taken .
3 I think Oxfordshire 's a brilliant place , and I 'm not just saying that because we 're on the air .
4 Now I 'm not necessarily thinking that that would 've happened if the parish council said , we will set up a group .
5 Well , I 'm not really suggesting that it is .
6 I know that they combine a macho enthusiasm for selective violence with a rigid adherence to middle-class morality , but you are n't seriously suggesting that they 'll suspect me of cutting Paul 's throat because I go to bed with his wife ?
7 ( 3 ) Consider types of work currently undertaken by the firm that should not be ( because of limited expertise , inadequate experience or cost ) ; and consider types of work you are not currently undertaking that you should be .
8 And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together .
9 It was perhaps part of his general attempt to calm her fears , but it is a potent indication that there was an underlying fear and she was not properly informed that no alternative was available .
10 Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question .
11 On the other hand we are not positively told that he was insane , and so we must also consider the unlikely hypothesis that the mistake was merely an act of folly .
12 Our alternative is straightforward , and meets this objection , and we are not only asking that it be used in all cases , only those where the result would otherwise be patently unjust .
13 which er er in my profession as well I come up against all the time and I I think that we 're not really acknowledging that that is very often a cause , for men and women
14 Sometimes they are not even informed that the waste is hazardous before it arrives on their doorstep .
15 No but I mean , the there 's but there 's a lot of people , you see when you say they 're not easily persuaded that are working class that are voting Tory and they 're not easily persuaded they cha
16 Though , just for the record , I would n't have tried to do anything of the sort if it were n't patently clear that you do n't feel anything lasting for your fiancé . ’
17 But er Nottingham 's er city that 's proud of its nature it 's not generally realized that there 's about a hundred nature reserves in the City of Nottingham maintained by the city of the Notts Wild Life Trust and er this is great on the outskirts but in the city centre there 's too little nature in it .
18 It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better .
19 It is not just sponges that can self-assemble .
20 It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget .
21 Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface .
22 While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends .
23 … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth .
24 But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared .
25 It is not wholly clear that the Act has the effect intended for it .
26 It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe .
27 It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary .
28 For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start .
29 It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development .
30 In summary , it is not yet clear that a modification of the daily rhythms is a necessary requirement of treatment or that an abnormality of the body clock is the cause of the disorder .
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