Example sentences of "it be not a [noun] it " in BNC.

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1 It 's not a culvert it 's two pipes that takes the water in ordinary times , ordinary river level , across the road but if there is heavy rain the ford , you 'll find that the ford will be always flooded so er it wo n't be alleviating th the flooding of the , of that part of the road .
2 It 's not a verb it 's just the
3 an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts .
4 It 's not a cinema it 's the Mercury Theatre .
5 Which is ten a side so it 's not a physical it 's more a running game .
6 But of course profit 's one thing , and income 's another thing , and I think the problem with most er forms of income type investment is that we spend it , it 's not a problem it 's just , it just happens .
7 Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ?
8 It 's not a thistle it 's a er
9 A pad , it 's it 's not a pad it 's an actual hole .
10 The trouble with the American red , it 's a , it 's , it 's not a maroon it 's a
11 There are promising off-stage noises , heading in the right direction , if it 's not a missile it 's coffee as just been pointed out .
12 It 's a cat entails It 's not a dog It 's a carnation entails It 's not a rose John is the one who is walking entails John is not the one who is running John is near the building entails John is not in the building
13 It 's not a common it is n't a common problem at all that .
14 Well it 's not a lot it 's only really the length which is different is n't it ?
15 The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er
16 It was n't a Ford it was Japanese
17 it 's in first Corinthians , it talks about for , I think I 'm in a vision of the third heaven , which was actually a vision , it was n't a reality it 's like a revelation was a vision , I do n't think it was the reality of heaven was it ?
18 And they went back and they bought this really big house , well it was n't a house it was a shell .
19 Er , it turned out it was n't a Rolls it was a Bentley , but I do n't know one car from
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