Example sentences of "it [is] [prep] [noun] not " in BNC.

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1 It is of course not easy and there are few ready-made answers for a church group trying to provide bereavement care for all those with whom they come in contact , some of whom will have family members who have committed suicide .
2 When practising a complete and complex system drill it is of course not possible to place all the separate drills side by side and drill them all in one go .
3 Whereas the excavation of settlements can throw light on the useful activities of ancient societies , it is from burials not previously looted by treasure-seekers that archaeologists have recovered artefacts shaped by the finest craftsmen from the most precious substances , veritable trophies of the forces of emulation responsible for the rise of human civilizations .
4 If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero .
5 It is in fact not a doctrine of neutrality but of moral pluralism .
6 By ignoring concealed households , it is in fact not seeking to house its people , and is in fact not doing what in fact it says it should be doing within the explanatory memorandum .
7 But since she is rather ostentatiously concealing it with her arm as she talks I imagine that it is in fact not homework at all , but a contribution to her mother 's Festschrift .
8 Threfore , accurate diagnosis of H pylori in these patients is at least as important as it is in patients not taking NSAID .
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