Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 32 | It 's a snake entails neither It 's a poisonous creature nor It 's not a poisonous creature ; likewise , It 's a poisonous creature is logically independent of It 's a snake . |
| 33 | It can not , nor it is not . |
| 34 | ‘ Something 's happened on the Isle of Nu-Nu-Nursery , and it 's ter-terrib-b-ter-not very nice ! ’ |
| 35 | And it 's not very different in the West . |
| 36 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 37 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 38 | And it 's not always easy to respect the author of The Maximus Poems , marred as they are on nearly every page by solecisms and gaucheries , by arbitrary coarseness in diction , punctuation , syntax , lineation . |
| 39 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 40 | The justification seems to have got lost along the way , but the attitude has prevailed until recently — you could argue about precise dates , but Philip Larkin plumped for 1963 — and it 's not done for yet . |
| 41 | I edge back to the tent , I feel lonely , desperately lonely , and it 's not just being alone that is doing it . |
| 42 | Men are all little boys at heart , when all 's said and done , and it 's not only women that like to have these little playthings about to make a break in the daily round . |
| 43 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 44 | ‘ And it 's not as hot as the Troop-either , sir . ’ |
| 45 | And it 's not just tropical countries that are affected . |
| 46 | Sure the world needs more love in it ; sure , the brutal and uncaring hold the reins ; sure , some people have no choice about having their lives wasted — but I celebrate the brutal and wasteful in music because I know what fascinates me , and it 's not this ghastly New Wave soul with-the-one-saxophone-tacked-on . |
| 47 | And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … . |
| 48 | You are becoming so hard and bitter and it 's not really like you . ’ |
| 49 | He 's trying too hard to please and it 's not a nice sight . |
| 50 | But this time , all that is gone ; and it 's not because you have aged a lot , or changed . |
| 51 | Pearson 's agent comments : ‘ Pugwash is more than just the signature tune , and it 's not just the accordion . |
| 52 | ‘ But we have two strong individuals here , and it 's not easy to knock heads together . ’ |
| 53 | Suddenly the scale becomes that of a cathedral , and it 's not fanciful to put the spirituality of the place in the same category . |
| 54 | Old Harry ca n't stand Lillibet and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 55 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 56 | Seefeld has grown into one of the Tyrol 's largest and most popular resorts , and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 57 | One of the most popular resorts in this brochure , and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 58 | And it 's not as if I 've gone off it within myself . |
| 59 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 60 | That does n't last for ever , and it 's not easy to psych yourself up to get another job after you 've been given the push . |