Example sentences of "[coord] it is not [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is n't too expensive — it should n't cost you more than £120 . |
| 2 | ‘ It is n't warm , and it is n't as easy as that , senator . ’ |
| 3 | There 's an assumption by some politicians that just because there is this immense change taking place in Eastern Europe , that this is victory for Western capitalism erm , I think there might be some of who might be a bit cautious about that victory and might believe that er there is still much that needs to be shared and understood and it is n't as simple as perhaps some political figures might suggest it could be . |
| 4 | There are lots of bright and witty numbers but The Language of Love is the nearest to a heart-schmaltzy ballad and it is n't very convincing . |
| 5 | I mean it is a bind , and , and it is n't very pleasant given somebody the sack either . |
| 6 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 7 | Also the battery life of portable computers is not yet long enough for consumer use , the memory is not adequate , and it is not yet possible to replace disk drives with removable solid state memory . |
| 8 | When the hon. Gentleman sees the full details for the range of different places involved , he will realise that there are some complicated plans for north of Inverness — for example , at Dingwall , Kirkwall , Stornoway , Thurso and Wick — and it is not yet possible to determine how they will work out . |
| 9 | Unfortunately he gives no source for this statement , and it is not immediately apparent on what it is based . |
| 10 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 11 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 12 | Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way . |
| 13 | Ahi sā , in its positive form , reflects a great deal of the teaching of the New Testament on love and it is not really surprising that Jesus should be referred to as one who manifested ahi sā in its perfect form . |
| 14 | However the point is for present purposes academic , and it is not therefore necessary for me to consider it further . |
| 15 | Different types of library have different needs , and it is not therefore possible to suggest any one system as a model . |
| 16 | There is an extensive and rapidly growing literature on the tectonics of plate interiors , but unfortunately much of it is written from a geophysical rather than a geomorphic perspective and it is not readily accessible to readers lacking a good grounding in physics and maths . |
| 17 | It came about through changes of agreement amongst speakers over the course of time involving greater and greater consensus on open /α : / as the appropriate realization , and it is not fully explainable in purely linguistic terms . |
| 18 | Injury , however , is not always accidental , and it is not only physical . |
| 19 | Surely , however , there are lines to be drawn , and it is not only remarkable , but worrying , to find that someone in such a responsible position can argue that the tobacco industry provides a neutral form of sponsorship . |
| 20 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 21 | And it is not so obvious that they are wrong . |
| 22 | The claim seems to have been of recent origin , and it is not quite clear on what it was based apart from the general principle of primacy . |
| 23 | The scheme is less helpful for the person who is handicapped from youth and has no experience of work , and it is not always suitable for those who are unused to and ill-suited for industrial work , for example , those from clerical work or service trades . |
| 24 | Such close contact with the facts of life certainly drives the lessons home , but a blunder can be costly , and it is not always easy for a beginner to put two and two together and deduce the root cause of his error . |
| 25 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |
| 26 | Of course she is becoming more well known and it is not always easy to realise it . |
| 27 | Eating habits have changed under external influences , and it is not always easy for farming to adapt to such changes . |
| 28 | In addition , most systems use search strategies to eliminate some partial hypotheses from consideration , and it is not always easy to determine the relative importance of the various components of these strategies . |
| 29 | He inherited this Bill a and it is not always easy er to make changes of the radical nature which he has proposed . |
| 30 | The problem with value measurements is that they necessarily have a price and quantity component and it is not always easy to separate the two . |