Example sentences of "it be not about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not about proving it ; it 's a moral question . ’ |
| 2 | No , it 's not about taking chances in the commodities market but rather a kind of theatre of concern about human potential in our era of heightened environmental concern . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not about diving into the murky depths in search of treasure — that is just the impression we want to get away from ’ , insists Noel Fojut , Historic Scotland 's Principal Inspector responsible for underwater archaeology . |
| 4 | So having introduced the idea that I S O Nine Thousand is about improving our management competence , it 's not about improving our technical competence , we are technically very good . |
| 5 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 6 | The Labour Party is nothing if it is not about seeking a fairer , more equal distribution of resources — abroad as well as at home . |
| 7 | And what is European Classicism if it is not about propping magnificently sculpted and weighted pediments upon tall columns . |
| 8 | ‘ For us , it is not about losing your job . |
| 9 | It is not about explaining what is , but rather seeks to give an account of what is as the basis for developing a set of practices for getting us to what might be . |
| 10 | Develop will be erm , shown , but it is not about running it 's about medieval Shrewsbury , many towns have these , the Yorvik one 's been spectacularly successful , and has been copied in places like Canterbury for those that saw Songs of Praise last night , with even , erm , it is evident that this will be a new visitor attraction for the town with a generation of jobs , permanent jobs in , in that er , facility , it will improve the erm , appearance of main entrance into the town centre , very important in terms of attracting other people in the future , unfortunately the Borough Council have n't quite got enough money , or they tell us . |
| 11 | Both disrupt the rules and regulations of respectability , which was about nothing if it was not about controlling the social status of women . |