Example sentences of "it is [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not transmitted from : |
| 2 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 3 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 4 | However , it is not long enough . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that many inmates want to give up their appeals . |
| 6 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 7 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 8 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 9 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 10 | A work of outstanding quality is a pinnacle ; it is not typical . |
| 11 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 12 | It is not altogether satisfactory to call a print by an artist on the same theme as one of his paintings a description . |
| 13 | It is not a revolution . |
| 14 | It is not Naipaul 's ; it does not constitute the author 's testament or confession on the subject of race relations and the rest of it . |
| 15 | As the analyst said , it is not discovered but made . |
| 16 | Glasser presents a full picture of the behaviour , good and bad , which he encountered in an area of maximum difficulty , and it is not often that such a picture has been presented . |
| 17 | This brings with it the corollary that it is not always apparent whether the beliefs he expresses are Ackroyd 's or those of the writer to whom he is exposed , or both . |
| 18 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
| 20 | It is not easy to know how far Kafka 's fictions can be thought to answer descriptively to the historical realities of his time , let alone to those which his fictions are often thought to have predicted . |
| 21 | And it is not easy to know how far Kapuscinski 's book is a book about a bygone Ethiopia . |
| 22 | But perhaps it is not too simple to suggest that we are also conscious of Zuckerman as a deflection of the wrath over Roth which works by making Zuckerman responsible for the outrage . |
| 23 | It is not the case that all her objections are mistaken . |
| 24 | There are those for whom it is not Jewish to speak in this way about Israel . |
| 25 | It is not clear why this is a reproach to Levi , whose story concerns a man whose piety is idiosyncratic , especially severe . |
| 26 | Yet it is not the reality of a naturalistic drama , such as we would find in , say , Ibsen or Chekhov . |
| 27 | Her Birmingham background is hinted at and if you can manage a Birmingham accent it might be useful , but it is not essential in finding the character . |
| 28 | It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong . |
| 29 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 30 | Acting can be both pleasure and torture — but it is not fun and people are sometimes more concerned with the image of being an actor ‘ at work ’ rather than just working . |