Example sentences of "it be not [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 It 's not I mean too bad
32 Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs .
33 It 's not I think if they use this offset thing , the masters last about five hundred so you 're not it 's not , it 's not a silly amount .
34 It 's not you had an arrow in your throats ! ’
35 And and would have a good time playing it , cos i There 's enough there , but it 's not you know
36 Freud , Freud 's , you know Freud said that everything that religion says is true , but it 's psychologically true it 's not factually true , it 's not you know true at the reality true psychological .
37 I mean if they 're just sort of four foot things I mean it 's not you know I think .
38 Erm and I think you 'll I It 's not you know , it 's not about following all all this stuff all the technology stuff in Tech
39 But now I think they do n't many so it 's not you know this up to sort of like thirteen they 've been taught constantly once to that age .
40 Not with me I 'm sure it 's not you know
41 It 's not you see because every person
42 But I do n't want to forget him , it 's not you forget it save your own life , you see er Irene one Wales , er she 's Greek , she 's only a young woman , she lost her husband I think two years ago and she 's already , cos you needs , delicate and people , people keep on thinking that you , you , you do n't want nobody then , you land in a mental home or stroke or , or something
43 it 's not you do n't wan na really .
44 You have to be sure the bird is very hungry , and if it 's not you have to sit down and wait for a long , long time .
45 It 's not he 'd just bought it .
46 Do n't take the suit away , the only thing I 'm a bit dubious well he said well take the suit home and try it if it 's not he said come back with it , he said and we 'll exchange it down here .
47 That 's what he said to me , cos I said oh it 's all old men you know what I mean , he said it 's not he said like , you go down the West Indian end , he said and it 's really a blinding day out .
48 It 's not anything to do with biology or psychology or any science or the old philosophies — it 's something so deep that even the most delicately poised approach almost inevitably occludes it .
49 It 's individuals , it 's not anything to do with Glasgow .
50 ‘ This haste , ’ said Paul , ‘ it 's not anything to do with Zeinab , is it ? ’
51 To see what happens when people pretend that a currency is worth what it is not we have only to consider Germany 's monetary union .
52 But in all these descriptions , as in his characters and his story lines , we are taken from the particular to the general ; we are led to see that it is not what happens that is important nor what effect action has on the people concerned , but what meaning we can extract , or guess at , from the impact on our senses and our intellect of the whole .
53 But it is not what counts finally .
54 It is not one to rally the world 's peasantries , pastoralists and other land-users to change the social conditions which bring about soil erosion in the first place .
55 Even if such a customer is on an excursion , it is not one organised by the trader .
56 Religious Observance holds a very special place in Catholic schools , it is not something added on to the Religious Education component , it is the expression of commitment to one 's faith , it brings reality to theory , it is the vehicle through which faith is deepened .
57 What is crucial for our concerns here is that such a ‘ mentality ’ or ideology is constructed ; it is not something imposed by the form of literacy itself as though the ‘ technology of the intellect ’ , as Goody terms it , were determinate .
58 Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use .
59 But just now you said that it is not something seen as just your problem .
60 Women have long been politically active ; it is not something confined to the present wave of feminism .
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