Example sentences of "it [be] not [adj] [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , it 's not unusual for someone to come in off the street and tell us they owe a million . ’ |
| 2 | A C.B. is a radio that people can talk to each other on rather like a telephone but it is not private as anyone who has a C.B. can listen in to your conversations . |
| 3 | Similarly , pets such as dogs , cats or budgerigars have to be provided for , if it is not practical for anyone to look after them while the patient can not . |
| 4 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |
| 5 | Of course it is not true for anyone that they lived the past 40 years in vain . |
| 6 | It is not unusual for someone to wonder whether undergoing hypnosis is likely to induce any unpleasant or harmful side-effects . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is not unusual for someone recently retired ( and perhaps looking forward to it ) to find themselves coping with sharply increasing dependency of their parents and unable to enjoy the period of active leisure which they were anticipating . |
| 8 | It is n't fair to anyone . |
| 9 | Besides , it is n't natural for someone like you . |
| 10 | I would n't even think of it for a minute if it was n't best for everybody . |
| 11 | Drunkenness due to one 's own fault is in itself no defence to a criminal charge ; and this is probably true also of drunkenness not due to one 's own fault — though no doubt the fact that it was not due to one 's own fault would be a ground for mitigation of punishment . |
| 12 | It was not uncommon for someone to take a wrong turning and be found wandering three weeks later , cold and hungry . |