Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adj] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 2 | Writing when he did , and as he did , to justify an actual rebellion , it is perhaps not strange that he was thinking primarily of politics rather than of law , that the ‘ rights ’ he had in mind were the rights of man rather than the rights of the citizen , or that the sanction for these rights should be extralegal action rather than any constitutional check . |
| 3 | We are not sorry that it failed and that , accordingly , Chapter 9 breaks into dialogue . |
| 4 | DEFIANT Fergie is NOT sorry that she was pictured in topless romps with Texan John Bryan , her mother revealed last night . |
| 5 | He said that he was not sorry that she had left . |
| 6 | And I 'm not sorry that I did that because erm I would n't like I would n't have like to think that er anything I 'd done had escalated the situation you know . |
| 7 | Looking back on it now , I am not sorry that I went . |
| 8 | Unlike the Minister , I am not sorry that I was not on the Committee ; I am pleased that I missed it . |
| 9 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 10 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 11 | Now , is it not possible that it is this rule which is the explanation of our referring to the feelings produced in our bodies by prolonged contact with hot or cold objects , as ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ ? |
| 12 | Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it not possible that you are too much under the influence of Washington which is not even the New York atmosphere ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sarah , however , is not upset that she was caught topless with Bryan . |
| 15 | Not only are the technical and organizational problems huge but it is not clear that we even have the intellectual concepts needed to talk about the issues we face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | McHaffie and Stein ( 1982 ) have also reported eye movements after colliculus stimulation in rats , although it is not clear that they are true saccades . |
| 18 | First , they used variable and often vague definitions of abuse , so that in many cases it was not clear that they were dealing with established cases of abuse . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 21 | This ‘ conventional ’ behaviour is described with scare quotes because it is not clear that one would be justified in reading into it the constellation of reciprocal beliefs and intentions that someone like Lewis takes as constitutive of conventional behaviour . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | " Is it not clear that our MPs have flagrantly broken the declared policy of the Party ? " asked a London Division statement calling for the disciplining of the Parliamentary representatives . |
| 24 | While Treitschke demonstrates how economic union in the Zollverein finally led to German unity under Prussian hegemony , it is not clear that there was necessarily any kind of secret agenda from the outset , rather , the natural pre-eminence of Prussia combined with other historical events beyond her control . |
| 25 | It is not clear that there was uniformity across the whole of the Merovingian kingdom in such matters . |
| 26 | It is not clear that she currently has any diplomatic status , though there is some evidence that the United Nations may still for some purposes recognise her ambassadorship . |
| 27 | As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ? |
| 28 | Is it not clear that it is not ambulance staff which have withdrawn the emergency cover from London , but the management ? ’ |
| 29 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 30 | 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 . |