Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bars of Victoria 's cot were black and menacing and the line of light under the door from the landing was a brilliant pencil which might at any moment rear up and scrawl ‘ She is not normall ’ lambently on the wall . |
| 2 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 3 | Accordingly , it is not blackmail where the accused extorts oral sex from the victim because that is not " money or other property " . |
| 4 | Similarly , it is not blackmail where the accused extorts a position of honour or release from lawful custody . |
| 5 | It is not blackmail where the accused believes he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and believes the use of menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 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 is not know whether the Canadian forecast was available to the crew before departure from Keflavik although it had been issued prior to that time . |
| 8 | It is not fear that impedes us , but how we handle our fears . |
| 9 | When it is not wind it is rain , |
| 10 | This quadratic form is not , as previously , a sum of squares ; but provided it is not zero we could choose di to make the element unity , when we should have ( with X for Xd ) unc On account of the properties established here , it is usual to say that the modes of a system are orthogonal to each other . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not meet that every nice offence should bear its comment ’ , DC 57 . |
| 12 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 13 | It is not love when the concern is the fact that I am being inconvenienced , but it is when the concern is for the damage that is being done to my partner and our relationship . |
| 14 | Then again , if it is not love that puts a bit of sparkle in your life , it will be some other form of much sought after success or happiness . |
| 15 | it is not even me , nor siblings |
| 16 | All the same , solitary bucks — if they can find no existing holes to make use of — will sometimes scratch out short tunnels for shelter , although it is not work that they tackle at all seriously . |
| 17 | But when we experience the work as play , then it is not work any more . |
| 18 | It is not anger that causes violence , but the attempt to block it ! |
| 19 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss , |
| 20 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss . |
| 21 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss . |
| 22 | It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss . |
| 23 | It is not wonder that Mr Chatrier seems ready to throw up his hands in despair . |
| 24 | General guidance on the firm 's role ( where it is not lead advisor ) in respect of City Code transactions is given in Chapter 9 of the CFM . |
| 25 | This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . " |
| 26 | Because if it is n't Dorrainge telling you how we 'll be defeated , it 's Lugh Longhand making speeches half the night . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He says it is n't smack that 's the problem , it 's buying it . |
| 28 | How could you be unobtru but it is n't look . |
| 29 | Right , and you get them to something that you can deal with , because the one thing you can not deal with right , we want to think it over , it is n't matter where you take them to , right whether it 's the bathroom window , whether it 's the one in |