Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [be] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick is if you go away it does n't look like you have , and erm the same thing happens in a design studio , or if you 're the art director of a publication or of a book publisher , that everybody works together so it looks like it 's not all the same person doing everything . |
| 2 | Where a defendant has a bankruptcy order made against him , or being a limited company is subject to a winding-up order , the plaintiff in a simple money claim should consider whether it is not best to ask for the action to be adjourned generally and lodge a proof of debt . |
| 3 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 4 | Have a guess does n't matter if it 's not right . |
| 5 | Might do because it 's not close gestures differ . |
| 6 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 7 | But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't laugh if it 's not funny . |
| 10 | Despite that it has to be commended because it is not possible to sympathise with the railway 's present economic situation if unnecessary sums are spent on throw away publicity material . |
| 11 | The making of notes should be avoided when it is not necessary . |
| 12 | If it 's not scarlet , it will be rejected entails If it 's not red it will be rejected 3 . |
| 13 | NCR lost because it was not prepared to develop yet another generation of the 9800 — derived from the company 's Criterion line , which dates back to 1976 . |
| 14 | The question whether there was ‘ dishonesty ’ by the prosecution may not be easy for magistrates to determine because it is not clear in what sense that word is used in the present context . |
| 15 | Well thank you , I , I 'll leave to Norbert the handling of the artist 's side of this , but as to the amateur sportsman , I know this is a very familiar and accepted notion among us , that the British do n't take sport seriously enough , but I wonder if it 's not one of the many self-delusions that we suffer from . |
| 16 | Traditional glass is cheap and lasts provided it is not subject to direct hits by flying objects . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the practice ratings from Study 1 were not recorded so it is not possible to test this hypothesis . |
| 18 | Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ? |
| 19 | Simply this that any government of any colour , at any level , central or local and any organization charged with the responsibility of meeting the needs of elderly people which proceeds on the tacit assumption or makes the blatant assertion that there is no longer any poverty in Scotland is requiring to be contradicted because it is not true . |
| 20 | ‘ to fall within the principle , not only ( 1 ) must there be a necessity to act when it is not practicable to communicate with the assisted person , but also ( 2 ) the action taken must be such as a reasonable person would in all the circumstances take , acting in the best interests of the assisted person . |
| 21 | Large medical expenses accounts should have been checked by Europ Assistance but these should still be examined as it is not unknown for such accounts to include TVs and even bar charges . |
| 22 | A common problem with co-referential items like pronouns and demonstratives arises when it is not clear what they refer to : Sir William Lucas is " in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him " and his daughter Maria " frightened almost out of her senses " when they meet Lady Catherine at Rosings , which expresses their simplicity and nature to be easily impressed by grandeur and presentation . |