Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 2 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 3 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
| 4 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 5 | Peter Gillman suggests that it was not until TV South West made a film ‘ A Trust Betrayed ’ , and consulted Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University , that a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence of poisoning and the official view that it could not happen came to light . |
| 6 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 7 | Astington found that it was not until the age of nine years that the majority of children gave consistently correct responses . |
| 8 | After the crisis was over , some Allied leaders began to wonder whether restoring Kuwaiti sovereignty had justified the effort involved — US Secretary of State Baker remarked that it was not ‘ the optimum type of regime ’ . |
| 9 | Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game . |
| 10 | Mr Wakeley feels that it is not cost effective to use more machines : ‘ You ca n't have all your staff training at the same time . |
| 11 | NCR lost because it was not prepared to develop yet another generation of the 9800 — derived from the company 's Criterion line , which dates back to 1976 . |
| 12 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
| 13 | Birkeland commented that it was not useful to blame poor populations for exploiting the few resources that they had , when fishing or mining reefs could earn them millions of dollars . |
| 14 | Mr Chope said that it was not appropriate to discuss Westminster security , but the agency already contracted out most building work , including work with a high security content for the Defence Ministry . |
| 15 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 16 | Sarah knew that it was not the funeral that had put the sad look on her daughter-in-law 's face , but something quite different . |
| 17 | Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him . |
| 18 | There was something funny here , and Lydia suspected that it was not the sort of funniness that she would enjoy . |
| 19 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 20 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 21 | The Japanese Ministry of Education 's National Institute of Fusion Science says that its NEC Corp SX-3 Model 24 supercomputer successfully fulfilled all the requirements specified in the initial contract bid : the contract was concluded last June , and was the subject of a challenge by Cray Research Inc late last year , and Cray was permitted to observe the operation of the new computer ; according to the Nikkei Industrial News , Cray complained that it was unable to obtain sufficient data on hardware issues such as NEC magneto-optical installed with the SX-3 , which NEC claims are the fastest in the world , and on the ultra high-speed HIPPI channel linked to them ; on the software side , Cray said that it was not able to obtain information on the efficiency of the automatic parallelising function ; for its part , NEC announced simply that the supercomputer was in full operation . |
| 22 | In this case , BCCI argued that it was not open to Fashions and Wholesale to take advantage of the set-off effect as between BCCI and Mr Sawar . |
| 23 | ( A ) JUGOSLAVS ( i ) All Jugoslavs , civil and military , in the hands of Allied troops in AUSTRIA will be returned to JUGOSLAVIA provided that it is not necessary to use force to do so . " |
| 24 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 25 | Parliament had voted 19 to five on Oct. 21 in favour of ratification , but had resisted the demand of the pro-EEA monarch , Prince Hans-Adam II , that the necessary referendum be held before that in Switzerland to ensure that it was not influenced by the Swiss result . |
| 26 | Although the rest of the world was the lowest cost source of supply the imposition of the CET meant that it was not the lowest priced source of supply in the domestic economy . |
| 27 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |