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

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1 It 's not possible to say that U2 sound like blah , which is great .
2 Inevitably , the save and sometimes the print facility has been turned off , and it 's not uncommon to find that a limit on file size ( in memory ) is also applied .
3 And well , it 's not nice to say that a girl is fat these days , but she was all ample proportioned we 'll put it like that .
4 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 .
5 It 's fairly clear when you would use a book or an Overhead Projector or a magazine picture in your teaching and it 's not difficult to see that video makes a different contribution .
6 track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so
7 He says that a substantial amount has been paid in benefits , it 's not true to say that they owe the tenants a large amount of arrears .
8 A spokeswoman for the liquidator of Continental , Cork Gully , said : ‘ It 's not true to say that the club wo n't get any money but at the moment we do n't know how much any pay-out will be . ’
9 So far as the wife and new husband are concerned , in contrast to unregistered title it is not necessary to declare that the registered proprietors have the powers of an absolute owner in dealing with the registered land .
10 It is not necessary to presume that the progression defined indicates some inescapable order in the way children learn , or some sequence of difficulty inherent in the material to be learnt .
11 It is not necessary to suppose that Wilfrid behaved treacherously to Aethelwealh in associating with Caedwalla ; the warfare between the two was probably outside his control .
12 It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action .
13 It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of .
14 With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank .
15 The question of " substance " may be significant — it is not necessary to prove that every single fact stated in a criticism is accurate , so long as its " sting " , ( its defamatory impact ) is substantially true .
16 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 .
17 If injury has actually been caused , it is not necessary to show that a particular defendant caused them , as it is when an offence against the person is alleged .
18 In s. 9(1) ( a ) it is not necessary to show that the accused intended to take a specific object or even that that object was in the building : A-G 's Refs ( Nos 1 and 2 of 1979 ) [ 1980 ] QB 180 ( CA ) .
19 It is not necessary to believe that Christ will be here tomorrow , although it may help to believe that he will be here some time .
20 It is not necessary to suggest that there will be conscious unfairness ; but it is , I submit , possible that such judges will , particularly in cases where the liberty of the subject is concerned , find themselves unconsciously biased through over-appreciation of executive difficulty …
21 It is not useful to insist that these are the result of potty-training .
22 It is not right to assume that those in inner-city areas can not be expected to achieve good examination results .
23 It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ .
24 It is not surprising to learn that the ‘ Manor of Suleton ’ is listed in the Domesday Book .
25 It is not surprising to learn that the naturalist David Bellamy lives nearby .
26 It is not surprising to learn that Sutherland felt so in sympathy with Picasso 's Guernica and later regretted that , in 1945 , he had not observed for himself the concentration camps .
27 It is not surprising to learn that the limit is the Nash equilibrium strategy for player A when z is common knowledge .
28 The Commissioner herself is the only legally qualified person in her office , and it is not surprising to learn that Treasury solicitor 's advice is often sought before a decision is made to grant assistance or not
29 With such a wide range of adaptations it is not surprising to find that the shapes of bivalves are highly varied — some are globular , others flat and plate-like , some like razor shell ( Ensis ) have become greatly elongated to avoid burrowing , and some in forms of the usual ‘ mirror image ’ symmetry has been lost .
30 It is not surprising to find that the widespread species have been used extensively to correlate rocks between different continents — they form the standard for the Silurian period , where the graptolite faunas are nearly the same all over the world .
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