Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [is] not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all .
2 However , he should recognise that it is not just the consumer who responds to ‘ market forces ’ .
3 Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners .
4 It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained .
5 When will ordinary people realise that it 's not just god bands that put out records .
6 I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems .
7 I realise that it 's not only an illness , I suppose , but it 's quite selfish in a way .
8 I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school .
9 The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use .
10 However , his distressed natural fabrics are an eerily beautiful choice for the contemporary aesthete , proving that it 's not always necessary for fashion designers to be timelords too .
11 On external relationships , we must use all our influence within the Community to see that it is not just a magnet for new members , which it clearly is already , but an influence for global free trade and payments .
12 Unwisely , he added : ‘ I 'm beginning to see that it is n't enough . ’
13 It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves .
14 I mean that it is not really government run er .
15 AIDS causing the death of the young has highlighted that it is not only the elderly who wish to make provision against an artificially prolonged end .
16 Will he ensure that it is not unfairly excluded as a result of the foreign dumping of inferior chain ?
17 Because their correlations were strongly linked to their rating of the respondent 's perceived adequacy of their social relationships but not to their availability , they conclude that it is not therefore the actual social environment of people which is important to the development of neurotic symptoms , but rather that , when faced with adversity , it is those individuals who view their social relationships as inadequate who have a substantially increased risk of developing neurotic symptoms .
18 The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down .
19 I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so .
20 Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him .
21 Despite creating a theory with a series of levels of semiosis it fails to support the substantive analyses in Mythologies where Barthes 's examples show that it is not merely the formal structure of signification that he is interested in .
22 Whilst this suggests that a large number of people make use of the procedure , the recent research figures reveal that it is not only private citizens , but also ‘ large organisations ’ and other ‘ small litigants , ’ who make extensive use of the procedure .
23 So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art .
24 I hope that it is not too perfunctory a way of dealing with this interesting point to say that in my opinion it is comprehensively answered by the judgments in Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd. v. Maxwell [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 991 which Mr. Rawley , for the defendants , brought to your Lordships ' attention .
25 I hope that it is not too late to provide this .
26 Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority .
27 The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries .
28 It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs .
29 It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed .
30 This chapter has argued that it is not only national population size , composition and behaviour that matter but also their changing patterns across regional and urban systems .
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