Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 2 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 3 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 4 | I think one of the , the best things a member of the royal family has done , is Prince Phillip and Prince of Wa , and Prince of Wales have actually opened their mouths up and said they 're opposed to wha a lo a lo a lot of what the present government policies are and it 's not , not before time , in my opinion ! |
| 5 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 6 | Could it be that 't is not the younger prince who has stolen her heart ? |
| 7 | Consequently , the reply to the national court must be that it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel in question must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state . |
| 8 | Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer . |
| 9 | Now I du n no whether it is possible , it may well be that it is n't possible er my Right Honourable Friend has er certain views and er and er as my Noble Friend Lord erm Lord Rippon said , it 's very difficult to make erm major er very difficult to make radical alterations without actually causing some anxiety somewhere . |
| 10 | I think in the past the , the response from the County Council would be that it was n't directly related to industrial relations . |
| 11 | Well it would be if it was n't for the tricky traps , perplexing puzzles , tantalising time limit and crafty creatures with an appetite for raw Rufus ! |
| 12 | When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad . |
| 13 | Or I would be if it were n't for the circumstances . |
| 14 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |
| 15 | If an animal does not eat a food item at one moment but does later , it may only be because it was not hungry before , not because it has learned to see it . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you what it 's a sound argument for the time being but it 's not a sound argument if we 're involved in a management buy out . |
| 17 | disputing if it whether it is or it is n't , but how can we show that it is ? |
| 18 | Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device . |
| 19 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 20 | Basically our belief is that it is not possible to make a profit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 23 | Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities , and therefore has an across-the-board application to different sources of endangerment . |
| 24 | However , as Voltaire famously observed , the trouble with common sense is that it is not very common — least of all , it seems , among research scientists . |
| 25 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 26 | The problem with placing Mary Leapor within this discussion is that it is not certain that she read any of the poems with which these critics are primarily concerned . |
| 27 | Another major difference between Leapor 's ‘ Crumble Hall ’ and other poems of this type is that it is not a panegyric . |
| 28 | The problem is that it is not just life expectancy that determines whether the child has this ‘ right to live ’ ; often handicaps such as Down 's Syndrome which is one of the primary forms of mental handicap identified by tests , are considered such a burden both to the child and the family that the pregnancy will be terminated . |
| 29 | The argument made in this book is that it is not to all land-users . |
| 30 | The biggest single difficulty in drawing attention to urban poverty is that it is not new , but simply — in some of its most worrying manifestations — getting worse . |