Example sentences of "it [be] not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 2 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 3 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 4 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |
| 5 | The mammoth catalogue raisonné of Magritte 's work would almost certainly not have come into existence if it were not for John ( d. 1973 ) and Dominique de Menil . |
| 6 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 7 | So there is some pattern in this spelling it 's awkward it 's not as trouble is English is mixed up with bits of all sort of other languages over hundreds of thousands of years . |
| 8 | It 's not about racism in the police force , it 's not about dishonesty amongst police officers . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not about marriage . |
| 10 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's not about Alfred that I 'm here but another matter altogether . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's got ‘ Earth ’ in the title , it 's not about hunting but there is a fox , and I ca n't remember the publisher . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Look , son , if it 's not about sex , how to convert your loft into a spare bedroom or a new diet guaranteed to lose ten pounds in two weeks , then this new magazine of yours wo n't sell . |
| 13 | As far as I 'm concerned , and I 've through the whole scene of infertility , motherhood is about responsibility and privilege , it 's not about rights , and it 's responsibility that lasts a lifetime and it 's tremendous privilege to be a mother ! |
| 14 | There 's there 's one , I think that 's gon na need clarifying , and that 's that this course is n't about presenting , er , it it maybe about adopting a selling approach but it 's not about presentation skills . |
| 15 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 16 | It 's not about racism in the police force , it 's not about dishonesty amongst police officers . |
| 17 | See the trouble , the trouble which I found was it was difficult trying , you know , it 's not about dream con you know it 's not about |
| 18 | It 's not about hair or women being shameful , it 's about respect , about being sacred . |
| 19 | It 's not about events , but about characters and their discourse ’ ( 160 ) . |
| 20 | We spend most of our time trying to pretend it 's not about God at all . |
| 21 | It 's not about police corruption . |
| 22 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 23 | But of course it 's not about animals at all . |
| 24 | It 's not at home as far as I can see . |
| 25 | Where , where d' ya leave it , it 's not at home is it ? |
| 26 | It 's not at nursery any more . |
| 27 | It 's not at hand . |
| 28 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |
| 29 | No it 's not under water . |
| 30 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |