Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [that] it [is] not " in BNC.

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1 There must be some gain to the citizen , however minimal , in living under a constitution which regularises the way in which power is exercised ; even where government is authoritarian , it matters that it is not arbitrary .
2 It states that it is not ‘ cost effective ’ to care for premature babies as there is a high incidence of disabilities amongst them and stresses that the government could save between £70 million and £200 million ( if one includes their education ) by allowing them to die .
3 It appears that it 's not because of your wonderful reputation , it 's because you 're a woman . ’
4 The first option is the more likely , since it appears that it is not just one but several dispositions which are at issue .
5 For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found .
6 In practice , it seems that it is not decline itself , but a fail in population to below critical threshold levels that is important in affecting service provision ( Winter 1971 ) .
7 It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition .
8 If it 's not an animal , then it follows that it 's not a dog .
9 It follows that it is not enough simply to appeal to the " differentiating power " of spatio-temporal relations within an objective framework .
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