Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 2 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 3 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 4 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 5 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 6 | Instead , we 're willing to take the risk and give Birmingham the retail centre it deserves and needs if it is not to be completely undermined by rival out-of-town attractions . ’ |
| 7 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 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 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 10 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 11 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 12 | We shall maintain the assumption that expectations are rational , and show that it is not this assumption per se which leads to the ineffectiveness of systematic stabilization policy but its combination with ( inter alia ) the assumption of price flexibility . |
| 13 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 14 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 15 | Mr Coase asked if this analysis was good economics , and showed that it was not . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal , however , thought the acquittals wrong and declared that it was not going to ‘ compound the error ’ by quashing the convictions . |
| 17 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 18 | Suppose that the brochure mentions a particular hotel and states that it is not yet completed . |
| 19 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 20 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 21 | Provided that this interpretation seems reasonable in the context and provided that it is not in conflict with other possible interpretations suggested either by the mental model or the superficial representation , it is accepted without difficulty . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions . |
| 23 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 24 | The streets are narrow and twist and turn and it is not advisable to take a car up them . |
| 25 | The court was satisfied that the conference had been conducted in a fair manner and stressed that it was not a judicial process . |
| 26 | The following description of the scientific method by a twentieth-century economist conforms closely to the naive inductivist account of science as I have described it , and indicates that it is not a position that I have invented solely for the purpose of criticizing it . |
| 27 | If the task is completed successfully there is joy and satisfaction ; and there is disappointment , sadness and anger if it is not . |
| 28 | Traditional glass is cheap and lasts provided it is not subject to direct hits by flying objects . |
| 29 | Maggie sat on the bed and fumed but it was not long before she started to smile . |
| 30 | The Government complained about the cost and said that it was not a matter for them or that matters were not that bad . |