Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] that in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family property owning patterns are affected by widespread home ownership , so it is not impossible that in addition to ordinary feelings of affection , concern and duty , some carers may be under pressure to care , to save family wealth seeping out in expensive residential care fees . |
| 2 | Moderator I am not convinced that in rejecting the legislation that went down under the Barrier Act , presbyteries were merely endorsing the status quo . |
| 3 | It is not unlikely that in his crusading travels and meetings Edward garnered ideas and experience from the Roman world of the Mediterranean and sought to emulate that great legislator , his father-in-law , Alfonso X. Not less probable , however , is the influence of the church , and this at several different levels . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 5 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 6 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 7 | It is not surprising that in many of the contests over the centuries , no archer has been able to ‘ ding doon ’ the papingo . |
| 8 | For this reason , it 's not surprising that in some careers friendship blossoms between people taking the same path . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that in modern times English and Commonwealth courts should try to avoid its worse consequences or , as one of Llewellyn 's bêtes noire , that the Uniform Commercial Code should abandon it . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that in practice it was sometimes difficult to keep to the logical distinctions described above . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that in the mid-fourth century the shape of the Pyramids should have influenced the architecture of an otherwise Greek building like the Mausoleum at Halikarnassus ; or that the cult of the Egyptian Isis should have had worshippers at fourth-century Athens ( Tod 189 , line 44 and p. 178 ) . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that in many or most of the cases , particularly the more modern ones , the act itself is unlawful . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that in view of all these criticisms and , more important , at a time of economic recession , the human capital theory is on the retreat . |
| 14 | Given Nizan 's view that 1914 represents the moment of closure of this particular historical period , it is not surprising that in the concluding chapters of the novel the historical environment is virtually ignored and an anguished , existential discourse comes to the forefront . |
| 15 | Given these qualities of the PDMs , it is perhaps not surprising that in his 1960 study Fiedler concluded that the most effective work groups were led by psychologically distant managers and not by psychologically close managers . |
| 16 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 17 | Perhaps they were not aware that in this respect de Pomiane was often simply harking back to his Polish origins , thereby refreshing French cookery in the perfectly traditional way . |
| 18 | Taylor expressed his surprise ; was Jackson not aware that in the district in which these persons derived their experience , there was little , if any , knowledge of mines worked under day levels or of what takes place in them when they are drained to considerable depths by machinery ? |
| 19 | I was n't aware that in nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty seven , the government had the same policies it does now . |