Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 2 | The point is this : trust is only applauded when it is not seen to be misplaced . |
| 3 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 4 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 5 | Restaurateurs obviously know that it 's not in their best interests to poison people : however , seemingly inaccessible places can harbour dirt and discarded food scraps , which in turn encourage rodents , cockroaches and other pests . |
| 6 | But as we saw earlier , the fact that a gift expresses a relationship ( as a symbol ) does not necessarily imply that it is not also of great economic importance for the parties concerned . |
| 7 | Since the BFS is non-degenerate this can only mean that it is not efficient . |
| 8 | Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman had better prove that it is not clean and fit to drink . |
| 9 | It produces no smoke , and its heat output is so controlled that it is not much warmer than the surrounding air and therefore hard for infra-red devices to detect . |
| 10 | Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment . |
| 11 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 12 | But the word can also be used to denote the idea that religion does not matter because it is not true . |
| 13 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 14 | Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ? |
| 15 | do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference . |
| 16 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 17 | That an event is characterized in terms of the interdependent existence of subject and content does not entail that it is not physical according to such a conception of the physical . |
| 18 | However , if the Transfer Regulations do not apply and it is not the transfer of a business as a going concern , the position is governed by the common law . |
| 19 | But I somehow feel that it 's not a sort of social occasion … ’ |
| 20 | It is generally assumed that it is not cost-effective to screen either younger or older women , but the achievements of any screening in this area are unclear . |
| 21 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 22 | Simply because the egalitarian society has yet to become a reality does not mean that it is not possible . |
| 23 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 24 | I am still opposed to it and er I just think that it 's not the right way to reconcile contradicting policies that we 've had . |
| 25 | Nowhere else will be able to afford to do it , so let's not pretend that it 's not gon na affect those people outside . |
| 26 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 27 | The intervening years have not seen any revision , but this is not to say that it is not both necessary and desirable . |
| 28 | Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ? |
| 29 | If we hoard money , it soon learns that it is not needed , and we no longer attract it . |
| 30 | It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought . |