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Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] it [be] not " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme .
2	an individual or as now as a , a Neighbourhood Watch , although I mean it 's not the main function of Neighbourhood Watch to do not noisy parties , but it could do , then make a complaint to Newark and District Council
3	Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities .
4	like perhaps appeals to womens magazines more than the other stuff but I know that I mean it 's not romantic in that way is it 's not a romance
5	But let me say that I think it 's not in principle difficult .
6	I looked to Mrs for guidance ; she looked amused , so I surmised it was not the inception of a punishment for my earlier and inconvenient frankness .
7	I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy .
8	Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite .
9	No I know that she said it 's not enough .
10	The same summer Gilfoyle began an affair with a colleague , Sandra Davies , although they maintain it was not a physical relationship , and he told her he was separated .
11	One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner .
12	Yeah , so they reckoned it 's not a scrapbook , but it is really .
13	The question of where they were to camp had been a matter of debate during the 1930's , so it seems it is not only the horse trading which is being revived .
14	I assume this has happened to everybody , so apologies , and I hope it 's not confusing .
15	We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside .
16	And I mean it 's not easy at the moment any way , is it ?
17	And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much .
18	and I know it 's not erm your business to be doing tee markers
19	And I know it 's not , not saying there 's anything wrong with it , just had n't got round to writing it .
20	on now this year to have me mum and dad cos she never had them at Christmas and I thought it 's not fair , you know , she 's the
21	And I said it 's not on !
22	when Mikie was here and you were doing nights , and he called us one day and I said it 's not six o'clock yet he said you 're
23	But it was not Maria ; a whiteness , a flowing whiteness , a long coat or a dressing-gown — I had only a second 's sight , but I knew it was a woman and I knew it was not an old woman .
24	‘ I believe this is the only country in which there has been a national acknowledgment of God 's directing Providence in the cholera , and I believe it is not a mere outward form but that more and more are becoming every day religious . ’
25	We have got a well established machinery instituted , we work under that auspices and I believe it is not unreasonable to ask for a substantial wage increase , because after all , a lot of our members depend on family income supplement and rents and rates rebates .
26	‘ That terrain was tax , and I believe it was not the best territory for us to choose . ’
27	‘ That terrain was tax and I believe it was not the best territory for us to choose . ’
28	And I think it is not at all clear what sort of mechanism he has in mind .
29	Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives .
30	I mean , we , it was very nearly went through had a meeting which had the press and public excluded and I think it was not handled well at that time from and we should make it quite clear that we are watching and hopefully we do understand the situation .