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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation .
2 In the future , every time you caution a person , enter the particulars in your notebook , and see he does n't get a second caution , and also remember that it is not necessary to caution a person before summonsing or arresting him , as the case may be .
3 We conclude that choledocholithiasis is part of the psectrum of primary sclerosing cholangitis and that it is not necessary to invoke choledocholithiasis as the initial lesion of the bile ducts in such patients .
4 Note that it is not necessary to create a separate database instance for LIFESPAN RDBI .
5 He states that it is not necessary to use vinegar or mild acetic acid to neutralise the reaction , as it is a waste of time to apply a mild acid on top of a stronger acid .
6 ( 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 . "
7 The result of this approach is that it is not necessary to retain all of the information stored in the interface for all words in the text .
8 I would counsel against taking this imperatival path , first on the rather weak ground that it is not necessary to do so .
9 The court is required to appoint a guardian ad litem for the child , unless it is satisfied that it is not necessary to do so in the interests of the child .
10 Indeed if this were its intended effect , it is difficult to see why the subsection goes on to say that it is not necessary to obtain the parents ' consent , rather than providing that such consent , if obtained , should be ineffective .
11 Wind power enthusiasts claim that a big advantage over solar power is that it is not necessary to cover the whole of the ‘ harvest area ’ .
12 THE BRITISH government 's claim that it is not necessary to remove lead from petrol received another body-blow last week .
13 This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory .
14 One very important fact to establish at the outset , therefore , is that it is not necessary to know why a particular fear or problem started in order to overcome it .
15 He considers that it is not necessary to consider the development of combustion technology in this scale because only relatively small quantities of fuel are used on comparison with the number of passenger journeys .
16 This means that it is not necessary to reject totalization as such — because such a rejection assumes its very possibility , whereas all attempts at totalization such as Sartre 's demonstrate rather its impossibility .
17 I hope to have established the point that it is not necessary to adopt the apocalyptic views of events put forward by the more sombre critics , nor to deserve the dismissive label ‘ puritanical ’ in order to believe that there are very good reasons why parents have to enforce rules .
18 This means that it is not necessary to oil them regularly .
19 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 .
20 ( 1988 ) argue that it is not necessary to propose a separate memory mechanism such as that proposed by Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) to account for flashbulb memories .
21 I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination .
22 While this Canadian experiment attempts to provide as many performance measures as possible , it is admitted that it is not practical to provide measures for all programmes .
23 In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat .
24 Megill himself , in his discussion of Derrida , as in the whole of his book , combines detailed knowledge of the texts , sympathetic treatment of his subject , and an ultimate detachment from it , so that it is not easy to discern his own attitudes .
25 He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time .
26 I think erm you 've got to say that it is not easy to find people to give the commitment to local government work these days and I think a partial remuneration of the expense that they incur is a very reasonable thing for the public to have to meet .
27 Against the use of a letter it must be noted that it is not easy to write a short but very clear letter explaining everything the informant may want to know , and if the recipient decides that she or he does not want to co-operate then she/he is warned in advance of the interviewer 's call .
28 However , a Commissioner may still investigate if he is satisfied that it is not reasonable to expect the complainant to use or have used this right .
29 a prudent estimate ( before tax ) of the potential financial effect , or a statement that it is not practicable to make such an estimate the taxation implications , if necessary for a proper understanding of the financial position .
30 It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was .
  Next page