Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [be] not [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ours shows because it 's not a bold pattern it 's very subdued
2 That comes up as waiting because it 's not the right side .
3 Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees .
4 Poland was condemned because it was not a proper nation-state , but it was condemned for its efforts to become one .
5 If size permits it then adopt a central facility for photocopying as it is not an efficient use of your secretary 's time .
6 The Criminal Law Revision Committee 's Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , 1966 , 39 , said that electricity could not be stolen because it was not a substance and the Divisional Court held so in Low v Blease [ 1975 ] Crim LR 513 ; instead a separate offence , s.13 , abstracting electricity , was created .
7 Example 4:8 Definition of rent linked to head rent " the reviewed rent " means the highest of ( 1 ) the rent contractually payable immediately before the relevant review date ( 2 ) the market rent and ( 3 ) per cent of the rent payable under the headlease ( assuming if it is not the fact that the headlease is in existence on the relevant review date ) Example 4:9 Alternative definition if at any time the rent payable under the headlease is increased the payable under this lease shall be increased with effect from the date as from which the rent payable under the headlease is increased so as to equal per cent of that rent
8 Fat bald man asks if it is not a bracing time of year .
9 I wonder if it 's not the game of football that 's a problem , but the attitude of many of the people involved .
10 Alia , however , in a letter on Feb. 19 to Catherine Lalumière , Secretary-General of the Council of Europe , stated that Omonia was excluded because it was not a political party .
11 The second contract could not be ignored since it was not an ‘ independent and disconnected ’ transaction ; the same buyer bought the same goods from the same seller .
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