Example sentences of "[coord] it is [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 2 | And it is n't without its pathetic aspects anyway , this evening scene with the two mature parties , their spectacles , their hair , their heavy old shoes , and the extra trust that she in particular will be needing to feel , and may not feel . |
| 3 | And it is n't as if you want the cottage . ’ |
| 4 | And it is n't as if it 's one of those sports where regular training is an option either . ’ |
| 5 | Many other vegetables do not produce seed until the second year , and it is n't worth allowing them to take up valuable space for that extra time . |
| 6 | the feathers have a certain length of life and that 's it , they 've had it , and it is n't worth the mess anyway |
| 7 | And it is n't at all , cos he knows possibly the other way and they wo n't get in . |
| 8 | Suddenly , an obviously disused airfield appears , right alongside our track — and it is n't on our map ! |
| 9 | and it is n't like that one at all but nevertheless there there is a way to adopt something like four strategy . |
| 10 | But the job of lifting the standards of people employed , giving them proper training , and paying a wage which breaks dependence on overtime and lifts morale : this together must far exceed the costs of the technology , and it is n't by any means clear what the bill will be or where the money will come from . |
| 11 | And it is n't in the Bible . |
| 12 | In saying this , of course , we are simply restating the fundamental question of psycholinguistics and it is not to be expected that there is some answer to the problem of explanation or even a commonly agreed way of investigating the issues involved . |
| 13 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 14 | Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all . |
| 15 | In any other sphere of life , when the demand for your product collapses for reasons entirely beyond your control , you do n't try to drum up new custom , you wind the business down and go into something more profitable ’ ‘ But there is a disturbing feeling about that something irreversible may be happening in the world and it is not to Britain 's advantage . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ is an American song , after all , and it is not on the whole a British sentiment . |
| 17 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 18 | Otherwise you could be changing status now only to change back again very shortly and it is not worth the upheaval for what would only be a marginal difference . ’ |
| 19 | And it is not beyond the mental capabilities of anyone with a reasonably well-formed mind to learn how to play an instrument — even badly . ’ |
| 20 | There must be a strong reason why no one of her family will have her and it is not as if she had no money . |
| 21 | It is certainly not about quality , and it is not about service . |
| 22 | This aim is underpinned by three interrelated objectives and it is not without significance how they complement and serve to implement the White Paper 's own trinity of ‘ aims of supervision ’ , that is , protection of the public , prevention of reoffending and successful reintegration of the offender in the community ( p. 35 , para. 7.3 ) . |
| 23 | We have already noted that he interprets the Gītā as a call to action and it is not without significance that he has been described as one of the foremost activist theoreticians and as a karmayogin . |
| 24 | The attempt to subvert binary logic threatens to invalidate the structuralist enterprise , and it is not without reason that in the early seventies Kristeva , Irigaray , and other women theorists began to map structuralism 's binary logic onto the social and discursive oppression of women by men . |
| 25 | It is the law which prevails over every other form of law , and it is not for the court to say that a parliamentary enactment , the highest law in this country , is illegal . |
| 26 | That is for local authorities to decide , and it is not for me to offer them advice . |
| 27 | One other consequence of a fresh gradation of sexual offences might be that they would cease to be gender-specific : there are some strange inconsistencies in the law at present , and it is not at all difficult to draft offences which might be committed by males or females against males or females . |
| 28 | Controversial matters , such as the Investment Services Directive , European Company Statute , the Thirteenth Company Law Directive concerning takeover and other general bids , the Tenth Company Law Directive concerning cross-border mergers between public limited companies , and the Company Taxation Directive concerning arrangements for taking losses into account , have been left until last and it is not at all certain whether all or most of these directives will be adopted by the end of 1992 . |
| 29 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
| 30 | And it is not at all good for the mothers who soudainement are dead ! |