Example sentences of "[is] not [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 2 | It is not that once we know something we commit ourselves to it but that knowing something is itself a commitment . |
| 3 | And it is not , she thought , sliding the mottled skin deftly off her fish , it is not as though we are starving . |
| 4 | ‘ It is not as though we are bad shopkeepers or have been foolish with our money . |
| 5 | It is not as though we do n't want to love these innocent victims or that they do not want to be loved , but guilt and bitterness prevent it — the guilt of all parties . |
| 6 | It is not as though they are paid a bonus for this production-line fishing . |
| 7 | It is not as though they were being asked to do an aerobatic display , Mildred . |
| 8 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 9 | I know you did n't want to marry me , but ‘ t is not as though I 'm forcing myself on you ! ’ |
| 10 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |
| 11 | So it is not as though it 's a young player who 's going out of the game and you 're telling them I 'm sorry your not going to make it with Warwickshire . |
| 12 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 13 | It 's not that when you 're trying to change that people stay in equilibrium point at all , they actually go down to there . |
| 14 | But he 's not he 's not that when he 's with her . |
| 15 | No , no it 's not cos if I drink other things then I feel really really sick , |
| 16 | Well it 's not because as I say , they actually park right on to the roundabout . |
| 17 | It 's not as though what Kenneth Clarke has done in the Health Service has actually done any good for our hospitals and medical services , and I do n't believe that he has anything to offer education either . |
| 18 | So it 's not as though they 're gon na get anyone to come . |
| 19 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
| 20 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 21 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 22 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 23 | It 's not as though there was a garden to ruin . ’ |
| 24 | But neither can the idea of going inward being metaphorical either , it 's not as though there 's any location within my body erm which is the location of the one . |
| 25 | ‘ At my age it 's not as though I 'm going to be snapped up at any other club . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 27 | It 's not as though I 'm stopping … |
| 28 | It 's not as though I ca n't afford to pay him market price and more . |
| 29 | I mean it 's not as though I 've bought a house which has got anything wrong with it . |
| 30 | I mean I have put a payment in , i it 's not as though I did n't , I mean that was quite easy mistake to make , to me . |