Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] not [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where parking is off-street the streets seem relatively safe , but where it is not there are obvious dangers . |
| 2 | I like Alice in Wonderland because of the funny creatures and because they talk like people except it is not what you expect . |
| 3 | A spokesperson for Mogul said , ‘ I would not say it could form a cyanide mixture — I would n't say the material was poisonous , although it is not something I would want to drink myself ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ What you have here is a traditional account of Masai origins , but also mixed with the arrival of this woman — I am assuming , although it is not my business , the ethnographer , Claude Cohn-Casson — yes , okay , well , there was an incident during the war , a famous incident as far as the Masai is concerned , when a British official was killed in a very small dispute about cattle . |
| 5 | " Although it is not our custom to shake hands , he likes to please his foreign overlords . |
| 6 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 7 | I think I ought really to say that it 's not something that 's particularly associated with opting out , it 's something we were already doing anyway as an aid to better management . |
| 8 | That it 's not him ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Jason was here when I came , proving that it 's not what a player costs but what he does that counts . ’ |
| 10 | I now know that it 's not what happens in the good times that counts , but how you survive the bad — disastrous holidays , financial crises , illnesses . |
| 11 | There is law and order , well , sort of How can you be so sure that it 's not what it seems ? ’ |
| 12 | do we say , what is holy in communion we then recognise that it 's not what but who who is holy in communion okay ? |
| 13 | Is n't it obvious in a second that it 's not it 's Mr and Mrs ? |
| 14 | And tell us that it 's not our turn : |
| 15 | The child who comes home saying , ‘ I hate school ’ , learns that it is not everything about school that she dislikes when her mother says ‘ It 's been a bad day today , has n't it ? |
| 16 | Touch the ‘ marble ’ and discover that it is not what it seems but beautifully painted plaster — scagliola . |
| 17 | But in all these descriptions , as in his characters and his story lines , we are taken from the particular to the general ; we are led to see that it is not what happens that is important nor what effect action has on the people concerned , but what meaning we can extract , or guess at , from the impact on our senses and our intellect of the whole . |
| 18 | Furthermore , they will know that such disturbances will force them to produce a level of output which is not the optimal one in the sense that it is not what they would in advance choose to produce at a price of P . |
| 19 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 20 | But just now you said that it is not something seen as just your problem . |
| 21 | In that respect it seems to me that it is not something that is necessary to come through the full procedure of the council in order for you to do and I I thought that would would deal er establish . |
| 22 | In many cases teachers have been indoctrinated with the view that it is not their job to encourage competitive sports . |
| 23 | Here the value of privacy may act against the interests of family members ; neighbours may consider that it is not their business to interfere and the beaten wife-at least before the growth of women 's self-help centres — may find that she has nowhere to go ( Pizzey , 1974 ) . |
| 24 | Some TECs have told us that it is not their guarantee but the Government 's . |
| 25 | However , when it comes to the central problem faced by the Secretary of State and his colleagues — that of being re-elected — their only solution is to throw money at it , providing that it is not their money or that of their supporters but taxpayers ' money . |
| 26 | This acts as a commitment payment and demonstrates the seriousness of the vendors confirming that it is not their intention just to test the water and withdraw . |
| 27 | To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one . |
| 28 | ‘ You know perfectly well that it is not me whom you love , but Mrs Greville , and the two children who are your responsibility , and , knowing that your heart lies with them , and not with me , I can not marry you . ’ |
| 29 | Even a cursory examination of amendment 27 to the Maastricht Bill will show that it is not me but Mr Maxwell who is having trouble . |
| 30 | What is more likely to happen is that the intensity of the pain will gradually diminish as the weeks go by until , one day , you wake up and realize that it is not there any more . |