Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking up the surface is well worth avoiding , firstly to save it and give yourself another heavenly run tomorrow , and secondly because when your edges start to catch it 's not much fun to ski and can be dangerous . |
| 2 | The rate of recent discoveries of sweatshops in France , Britain , Italy and other countries suggest it is not just a North American phenomenon . |
| 3 | Complaints from the side of the parish officers suggest it was not uncommon . |
| 4 | ‘ How do we know it 's not a trap ? ’ |
| 5 | I can only say that in your own experience you must know it 's not that easy to stop loving someone . |
| 6 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 7 | I do n't know it 's not far away . |
| 8 | I do n't know It 's not very interesting , I mean it , it 's big . |
| 9 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
| 10 | It would be a comfort to her and she would never know it was not true . |
| 11 | She could not really let herself understand what he was saying , but she knew she had to speak out , to let him know it was not just the thought of her father that had brought her here . |
| 12 | He must know it was not true . |
| 13 | He must know it was not how much they earned that was important — not when they were insolvent — it was when they earned it that counted . |
| 14 | Pity it 's not cellulose … |
| 15 | ‘ I said if we drew it was not the end of the world . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt if I was dropped it was not too bad to be dropped in favour of the second-best hooker in England . ’ |
| 17 | And remember , although it 's a ‘ valve ’ preamp it 's not an ‘ all-valve ’ preamp like the Mesa Boogie TriAxis ( which we will be looking at next month ) . |
| 18 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 19 | well I think it would be easier to go straight down here and walk out other door , one of other doors , it 's not as far I do n't think , the way I 've come it 's not , it 's quite a way like what er |
| 20 | You go down there on your hands and knees and you report it 's not meet and then you |
| 21 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
| 22 | Economists say it is not terribly relevant because the financial flows are 20 to 50 times as great . |
| 23 | Now in your paragraph six point three you say It is not one of the functions of the York greenbelt to protect Skelton . |
| 24 | ‘ You say it is not my child . |
| 25 | The organisers say it is not just a reaction to the recent carnage in Warrington . |
| 26 | I understand the C E C asked us to withdraw this motion because they say it is not necessary . |
| 27 | Some of the wise men say it is not painting , some of them say it is . |
| 28 | You say it 's not OK just to take , darling , angel , siren , demon , goddess , fucking you fucking canonises me . |
| 29 | A lot of people today say it 's not necessary . |
| 30 | The ‘ Old Guard ’ , no longer playing a role at Central Office , has muttered darkly about the inexperience of the ‘ Brat Pack ’ : the Young Guns say it 's not their fault , that they have been forced into the background by more experienced campaigners . |