Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think that it 's not just the policy , I think it 's the whole of society 's attitudes , because children learn what they are by how people see them , and if they 're in a society that says you 're in an unusual situation , if you 're not with two parents then somehow your situation is n't right and we condemn it ! |
| 32 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 33 | But without an escapement I think that it is not possible to stop a piano jangling or echoing . |
| 34 | I wonder if it 's not the game of football that 's a problem , but the attitude of many of the people involved . |
| 35 | Well thank you , I , I 'll leave to Norbert the handling of the artist 's side of this , but as to the amateur sportsman , I know this is a very familiar and accepted notion among us , that the British do n't take sport seriously enough , but I wonder if it 's not one of the many self-delusions that we suffer from . |
| 36 | I said cos it 's not very good |
| 37 | They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns . |
| 38 | I do n't know why I apologised because it was not my fault that the Crowninshield twins were cocaine freaks , nor that their father wanted to charter Wavebreaker , but I sympathised with Ellen 's distaste for cocaine and was foolish enough to say as much . |
| 39 | I 'm an ex-carer , and I looked after my aunt for three and a half years , and could I say that it 's not all negative although it times you could scream ! |
| 40 | I concluded that it was not . |
| 41 | Not only that , it made me wonder if it was not time to give the game another chance . |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 43 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 44 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |