Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | We race constantly so it is not surprising that 90 per cent of accidents are caused by excess speed . ’ |
| 2 | In wet areas , weeds and turf re-root and grow quickly and it is not easy to work up a clean tilth unless they are well buried and allowed to rot . |
| 3 | that start with a C you learn maybe about ten or twenty that start with a K and you say well if it 's not one of these I do n't know I 'm gon na s try it with a C. |
| 4 | ‘ Also I am accustomed to courtesy and react badly when it is not present . |
| 5 | I think I now know sooner if it 's not going to be any good , you know . |
| 6 | The findings indicate however that it is not so much the carers ' preferences which do or do not change but their feelings about the feasibility of those preferences . |
| 7 | Well I suppose like that it 's not worth tuppence really . |
| 8 | After all , we may be learning as we go along but it is n't long before we discover that not everybody has a sylph-like waist or arms that with a little stretch will trail along the floor ! |
| 9 | But , if I go back and it 's not cleared up it might ruddy come back again ! |
| 10 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 11 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 12 | With an elephant you can kick it till the cows come home but it 's not going to worry about it . |
| 13 | Many training providers pull out because it is not worth it . |
| 14 | But when we read a page of powerful writing , we see immediately that it is not clever and has nothing to do with fanciness or obscurity . |