Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [be] not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As far as the clothing is concerned , it 's all in the reports , but to save you time I can tell you more or less what we found and it is n't a great deal . |
| 2 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 3 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 4 | One discussant then commented that it is not an either/or situation , that is , that either the government or the community should take sole responsibility for it , but it should be a responsibility shared by both government and community . |
| 5 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 6 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |
| 7 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico said that NAFTA would generate more jobs and better wages for Mexican workers , but warned that it was not a " magical formula " and that the benefits would not come immediately . |
| 8 | The archaeologist explained that the skeleton 's place in the soil strata and its size meant that it was not a dinosaur . |
| 9 | Luther saw that it was not a matter of his own work but God 's work . |
| 10 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 11 | The court was satisfied that the conference had been conducted in a fair manner and stressed that it was not a judicial process . |
| 12 | The thought came to Alexei with such force and urgency that he knew that it was not a reasoned reaction . |
| 13 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 14 | A little too late , she remembered that it was n't a good idea to goad Julius 's temper into life . |
| 15 | Cobalt retorted that it was not an amusing thing to do , pointing a gun at people , and he could not see what Maurin found so funny . |
| 16 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 17 | At the beginning of the hearing the committee chairman , Sir Herbert Duthie , said that it was not a trial of alternative medicine or of the provocation-neutralisation test . |
| 18 | The Government complained about the cost and said that it was not a matter for them or that matters were not that bad . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's sad that having made the assurances in court and accepted that it was n't an acceptable way of doing business , that it turns out that they are still carrying on . ’ |
| 20 | Ah most squads were on piece work but you might find that you had If it was n't an apprentice squad , you might find that you had a squad of riveters who were n't on piece work , who simply went round doing any wee odds and ends that had |
| 21 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 22 | No , this one yo , well we had but it was n't a fast tan . |
| 23 | Time can be a very real problem but answers to the questionnaire suggested that it was not an absolute impediment . |
| 24 | I found it very easy to go into the science sixth and nobody suggested that it was n't a ladylike thing to do . |