Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 … |
| 13 | It is not useful to insist that these are the result of potty-training . |
| 14 | It is not right to assume that those in inner-city areas can not be expected to achieve good examination results . |
| 15 | It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ . |
| 16 | It is not surprising to learn that the ‘ Manor of Suleton ’ is listed in the Domesday Book . |
| 17 | It is not surprising to learn that the naturalist David Bellamy lives nearby . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is not surprising to learn that the limit is the Nash equilibrium strategy for player A when z is common knowledge . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In view of this complementary relationship of grammar and lexis , it is not surprising to find that there are units of meaning which are intermediary between lexical words and grammatical structures , the existence of which again indicates that there is a continuum between these levels of language . |
| 24 | Kent was the major producer and consumer of gold jewellery and it is not surprising to find that the greatest number of coins is found there also , often mounted on suspension loops and worn on necklaces . |
| 25 | Relationships with in-laws , especially with parents-in-law , conventionally are regarded as problematic and therefore it is not surprising to find that patterns of support seem to be affected by the quality of the relationship . |
| 26 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 27 | Under these conditions , it is not surprising to find that superiors and subordinates hold optimistic and pessimistic views about each other . |
| 28 | In such a context , then , it is not surprising to find that skill sharing will occur more frequently and easily , and that job rotation may be used to facilitate both formal skill sharing and informal learning amongst employees ( Koike , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts . |
| 30 | When the overconstrained design problem is viewed in this way it is not surprising to find that it has led most of the thinking of CAD systems . |