Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] not [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if it is not morning and the sun is over there ( His left ) … that … |
| 2 | If it 's not cricket and Frank Woolley it 's something else . |
| 3 | The air that stirred round their trunks seemed green , thick , rippling — as if it were not air but drifting water . |
| 4 | But as they do , it 's gon na hit her cos it 's not year that it does n't help , see if she 's in a third year class , she was always as she is now , in the top of that , but even |
| 5 | The central core of Formen is really an attempt to answer fundamental preliminary questions for Marx 's theory of capital : what is property when it is not property as visualized in the particular formulation of capitalism ? |
| 6 | The dawn chorus , her mother called it , though it was not dawn but nearly eight . |
| 7 | On the same assumption , there is another overwhelming problem for the proposal : for it is not sentences but rather utterances-that make definite statements , and thus can sensibly be assigned truth conditions ( as philosophers have long noted ; see e.g. Strawson , 1950 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) . |