Example sentences of "[v-ing] that it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jason was here when I came , proving that it 's not what a player costs but what he does that counts . ’ |
| 2 | However , his distressed natural fabrics are an eerily beautiful choice for the contemporary aesthete , proving that it 's not always necessary for fashion designers to be timelords too . |
| 3 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 4 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 5 | One response to this has been to challenge the position of the majority in the province by suggesting that it is not the population of the province who should decide the issues at stake but the population of the whole of Ireland . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 8 | Yet the Declaration of Rights made no provision for regular Parliaments ; it merely stated that " Parliaments ought to be held frequently " , and even then it was the last demand made in the document , suggesting that it was not a particularly high priority . |
| 9 | It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves . |
| 10 | I lay there realising that it was not true , but also realising something else . |
| 11 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 12 | So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art . |
| 13 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 14 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 15 | Callaghan seemed to be implying that it was not enough to offer young people a broad liberal curriculum in school , if such a curriculum did not prepare them to face the unthinking anonymity of the factory production line . |
| 16 | concerts and things , but you can , you can tell , with just , just by listening that it 's not just any old body tinkling on the piano , it 's wonderful , it makes you sick . |
| 17 | The divider sheets are not necessarily replaced when new statutes are added , so look for a recent statute in its proper chronological place , and if necessary check with the cumulative supplement before deciding that it is not included . |
| 18 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 19 | This acts as a commitment payment and demonstrates the seriousness of the vendors confirming that it is not their intention just to test the water and withdraw . |
| 20 | Grilled beef can take any style providing that it 's not too sweet ( as German mustards are ) or flavoured with an unsuitable herb such as dill . |
| 21 | However , for the foal , providing that it is not extremely young , it is quite different ! |
| 22 | However , when it comes to the central problem faced by the Secretary of State and his colleagues — that of being re-elected — their only solution is to throw money at it , providing that it is not their money or that of their supporters but taxpayers ' money . |
| 23 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs ' appeal from Wright J. 's order , holding that it was not open to the court to devise protection in substitution for the defendants ' privilege against self-incrimination , and that the plaintiffs ' claim was neither proprietary nor within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 |
| 25 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
| 26 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 27 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 28 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 29 | An Information memorandum should include a form of wording emphasising that it is not a prospectus , that the information it contains is confidential and that neither we nor the directors of the company concerned accept responsibility for it . |
| 30 | Demonstrating that it is not just Government ministers who get neurotic about the media , Meacher desperately blamed ‘ malicious and fabricated press reporting ’ . |