Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is not that it is demonstrating ‘ wounded pride ’ , as its owners believe , but instead is revealing its social inferiority . |
| 2 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 3 | It was ah no I mean it was you know it 's not that it was Do you mind if I watch the news at six ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But she 's not if it 's coming natural . |
| 6 | It was n't that it was lined or rugged , it was the set of his jaw and the expression in his eyes . |