Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Hector said : ‘ There was a general acceptance that we have to get things moving in the right direction but it is not easy to find a quick solution . ’ |
| 2 | Rangers are likely to contest any punishment stronger than a one-match ban but it 's not all bad news . |
| 3 | Add to this the fact that among mountain goats most of the winter mortality falls on the youngest animals and it is not hard to see why there are few surplus goats for the hunter 's guns . |
| 4 | But by and large that 's just a further clarification of some aspects and it 's not a quantum change of policy , all it did is collect together wholesalers of circulars etcetera er and and present them in a in a slightly er more concise way . |
| 5 | I mean Louis seems to be really sort of like a different cat but it 's not |
| 6 | The ratio of the consumption of wood to steel varies considerably between different countries but it is not necessarily an index of the degree of industrialization or of technological advancement . |
| 7 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 8 | Young Monodactylus are able to tolerate freshwater conditions but it is not usual for them to survive in a totally freshwater environment beyond a body length of 5cm . |
| 9 | So both as givers and receivers of support , men and women normally are in very different positions and it is not surprising to find therefore that gender permeates all aspects of support structures . |
| 10 | This aim is underpinned by three interrelated objectives and it is not without significance how they complement and serve to implement the White Paper 's own trinity of ‘ aims of supervision ’ , that is , protection of the public , prevention of reoffending and successful reintegration of the offender in the community ( p. 35 , para. 7.3 ) . |
| 11 | Our solutions containing rice derived glucose polymer promoted the highest water obsorption in the secretory state but it is not known whether increasing the polymer concentration ( but maintaining ORS hypotonicity ) would enhance water absorption by further stimulating active glucose transport or whether water absorption would be jeopardised , even by a moderate increase in osmolality . |
| 12 | There is a rigid hierarchy but it is not just a sexual hierarchy . |
| 13 | Er , in terms of training , commercial training and it 's not just the Fire and Rescue Service I spoke recently with the Chief Ambulance Officer , who 's experiencing the same problems . |
| 14 | Hipparcos complements this information and it is not only the parallactic motion of stars that it measures . |
| 15 | Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa . |
| 16 | The Indians in their own habitat are a completely different proposition and it is not surprising that England have only won three of the nine Test series in India . |
| 17 | It has been true in parts for a period of British politics but it is not the theoretical key to unlock the essence of things as was once thought to be the case . |
| 18 | And you get I mean it might be an idea if you could sort of handle this formula but it 's not important really . |
| 19 | 1.2 Advantages and It is not enough for a business to be disadvantages of responsive only to its present forecasting environment . |
| 20 | As we noted above , taxing interest at source and at a composite rate has positive attractions for personal savers but it is not attractive to commercial depositors who , because of their varying tax positions prefer payment gross . |
| 21 | Er only a bit of fun this really , it 's not a It it can be a serious exercise but it 's not meant to put you under any pressure . |
| 22 | We did have we worked a six team but it 's not as easy to work out . |
| 23 | Research in the Arts is mostly conducted on an individual basis and it is not possible to do full justice to this activity here . |
| 24 | That 's the overall and rather special context of this year in , in the year of the youth but every year is an important from the point of view of commodores and clubs and the amount of work that ac goes on on the ground through supporting causes and the effort to recruit membership and it 's in that rather mundane day to day part of R Y A membership that I would like to congratulate you first I think all of you have worked extremely hard and the reports reflect the success achieved and I would particularly highlight the increase in membership , now that obviously has n't been easy and this does require a huge effort of , a consistent effort and it 's not something you can just apply every now and again . |
| 25 | Pain and suffering are not measurable by any absolute standard and it is not easy , if indeed possible other than in the most general way , to compare the degree of pain and suffering experienced by different people . |
| 26 | The support crew is there at every possible point and it 's not so much what they give us , it 's just the fact that they are there . |
| 27 | It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use . |
| 28 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 29 | This exhibits the powers of the human imagination but it is not at all easy to demonstrate in a book of this size . |
| 30 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |