Example sentences of "but it be not [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best evidence for the existence of a black hole is the presence within the cluster of a unique radio source , Sgr A , but it is not compelling . |
| 2 | But it is not helping the snail 's genes . |
| 3 | But it is not radiating its energy at visible wavelengths like previous contenders for the title , all of which were quasars ( quasi-stellar objects ) . |
| 4 | ‘ But it is not affecting me to have to do the job I have been given . |
| 5 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 6 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 7 | But it is not working like that . |
| 8 | It is possible to have a system in which ‘ workload related budgets concerning financial and manpower allocations , etc but it is not going to be ‘ unsophisticated ’ . |
| 9 | The power of scientists and their masters may sometimes be sinister , but it is not going to be effectively redistributed through an ill considered and superficial programme like the one outlined in Partial Progress . |
| 10 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 11 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 12 | But it 's not taking away the erm , power of the planning committee on any other matter whatsoever . |
| 13 | That fine but it 's not helping |
| 14 | But it 's not stopping you see ! |
| 15 | But it 's not touching what that citizen really feels , and so is unlikely to change him . |
| 16 | Yeah , but it 's not touching my mouth , look . |
| 17 | I had hoped that the facts would make themselves so apparent that the motive could emerge in its own good time — but it 's not looking that way at all . |
| 18 | With an elephant you can kick it till the cows come home but it 's not going to worry about it . |
| 19 | I can go to all the dinners and banquets on earth , but it 's not going to make any difference to the world . |
| 20 | ‘ They put together a group of people like Take That ! , who did n't even know each other until they formed — not that I 'm knocking them , because they 've got more front than we have — but it 's not going to work unless it 's real , ’ gripes Tony . |
| 21 | I do n't know , but it 's not going in |
| 22 | And other people other people think spelling should be changed but it 's not going to be and they 're still going to mark it one the exam if you do n't get it right . |
| 23 | But it 's not going to be the answer to the problem . |
| 24 | But it 's not going to work . |
| 25 | But it 's not going too well for me , Robyn . |
| 26 | Fletcher added : ‘ If we can win the one-day series it will be very pleasing after what has gone on so far , but it 's not going to be easy . |
| 27 | ‘ You get a wee bit romantic and a wee bit depressed about it , but it 's not going to affect your job . |
| 28 | it just comes and it just hurt , it feels like it 's going click but it 's not going click . |
| 29 | We have some good news , yes , but it 's not going to have any immediate benefit on the man in the street — the local trader . |
| 30 | There 's going to be a seventy acre community nature park eventually , so that 's quite an area to cover , but it 's not going to be all trees — it 's going to be some open glades for butterflies and so on , so there should be a nice variation there . |