Example sentences of "but it [be] not [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not such that we are obliged to interpret an order to be obeyed as an expression of a belief about the other sort of order . |
| 2 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 3 | But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called ‘ the Hungry Forties ’ . |
| 4 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 5 | The hand that copied the music was certainly of thoroughly professional quality , but it is not impossible that any of the named persons could have acquired such a hand , or , indeed , been a professional copyist . |
| 6 | We might accept , for instance , that labouring on property should give the labourer some preferential interest in it ( for example , a right to the value added by the work done ) , but it is not self-evident that any particular set of more extensive rights is warranted . |
| 7 | Acts done to forward or protect the defendants ' trade or business interests are clearly justified , but it is not essential that the interest promoted be a material one . |
| 8 | Sources within TRT said it was considering whether apply for a licence of its own , but it is not certain that the company will actually need one : it may be able to operate under the Worldcom licence — assuming that IDB 's acquisition goes through , TRT and Worldcom will share the same parent . |
| 9 | According to Mark Raymond , senior analyst at consultancy DataPro , ‘ The action will clearly strengthen the chances of it becoming the industry standard , but it is not certain that it will influence the IEEE ’ . |
| 10 | Were all the surface repositories on Mars to be included then the depletions would be reduced , but it is not certain that they would be eliminated . |
| 11 | That coins were minted in the names of bishops and churches is clear , but it is not certain that they mark an encroachment into a royal preserve . |
| 12 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |
| 13 | In the very long term , automated machinery is likely to incorporate automatic diagnostic equipment in order to simplify maintenance , but it is not obvious that this will necessarily reduce the skill content of craft maintenance work . |
| 14 | Psychological studies could provide some answers , but it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language , identified by the psychologist , will map on to individual brain areas , any more than the computational processes of a digital computer map on to individual parts of its hardware . |
| 15 | ‘ But it is not fair that your remorse should be turned in the direction of seeking someone else to blame . ’ |
| 16 | But it is not overjoyed that so many shops are concentrating on whisky and cigarettes . |
| 17 | But it is not true that if we know which drug to prescribe , we know all that is necessary to know about schizophrenia . |
| 18 | But it is not true that Freudian theory has no space for ideas of unity or autonomy . |
| 19 | You can read English and you are reading this book , but it is not true that if you can read English you are reading this book . |
| 20 | But it is not clear that the declining overall effectiveness of the police and of criminal justice is because of internal failings so much as because of the overwhelming growth of work-load due to growing social and economic inequality coupled with moral deregulation . |
| 21 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |
| 22 | COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath . |
| 23 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |
| 24 | B-trees are very good for storing numbers ( for example ORACLE the relational database stores its indexes as B-trees ) , but it is not clear that they are particularly useful for storing words . |
| 25 | The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case . |
| 26 | Certainly , examples can be found where the growth of the enterprise has involved the creation of massive technical operating units ( in the car industry and the shipyards for instance ) but it is not clear that this trend will continue , and in some cases technological change is already undermining the competitive advantage of those enterprises operating very large-scale units . |
| 27 | The standard left response to the kind of argument put by Gaitskell was that the party should be ‘ more socialist ’ and would thereby gain more working class support , but it is not clear that the left opposition within the party had a political project which could have commanded mass popular support among the working class in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Contractual arrangements between the parties can lead to disputes , but it is not clear that these are the concern of competition policy authorities . |
| 29 | There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor . |
| 30 | Education regarding the potential dangerousness of the drug in overdose may prevent accidental deaths , but it is not clear that this alone will prevent death among those who impulsively overdose with this drug . |