Example sentences of "it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 2 | A House of Lords ' Select Committee has found that detected fraud is only the tip of the iceberg , and that steps taken to support the fight against it are not enough . |
| 3 | I believe , in fact , that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers , but merely ladies who can not resist exploring someone else 's house . |
| 4 | It can develop strongly in almost any weather , but contrary to popular and widespread belief and advice , the conditions that most favour and encourage it are not damp and mugginess , but hot dry days interspersed with clear , cold , dew-laden nights . |
| 5 | The question therefore arises that if the system or the people operating it are not effective , should not the whole organisation be scrapped ? |
| 6 | The road from Mandalay to Wigan Pier is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear … |
| 7 | If the scope of the enabling Act is exceeded or the procedures set out in it are not followed , the secondary legislation thereby created is said to be ultra vires ( i.e. beyond the power given ) . |
| 8 | Change is always hard but clearly is even harder if the reasons for it are not explained . |
| 9 | On this issue Owen and Roger have come into open conflict but , although the observation that Roger lacks commitment to the aim of returning pupils to school is a correct one , the implications drawn from it are not . |
| 10 | The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard . |
| 11 | The first visual representations of it are not earlier than the middle of the 18th century . |
| 12 | Will my hon. Friend firmly rebut the criticisms made by those who continue to argue that although the aims of that Act are excellent , the funding arrangements to support it are not ? |
| 13 | The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before . |
| 14 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 15 | If it were not for Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act , we might be able to make reforms more rationally on the basis of , at least , a minimal sample of the recorded deliberations of informed and unidentified jurors . |
| 16 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , has argued for a general ‘ right of entry ’ to Britain — though such a ‘ right ’ could not be of much value if it were not ordinarily convertible into full citizenship . |
| 17 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |
| 18 | Canal tours , blue-and-white china , narrow streets — if it were not also a university town it would be merely beautiful . |
| 19 | If I were reasonably satisfied that , other things being equal , substantially fewer persons would be murdered if the death penalty were available than if it were not , I should have opposed its abolition and would support its restoration . |
| 20 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 21 | The five dogs on the other end of it were not impressed with the idea of going backwards and battle was joined . |
| 22 | If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’ |
| 23 | The clumsiness is evident in the standard of ‘ the reasonable man ’ , an anthropomorphic ( and male ) standard which might be taken to suggest a paragon of virtue if it were not for the context of partially exculpating a killing by such a person . |
| 24 | She half mouthed the word , as though it were not quite suitable for a polite tea-table . |
| 25 | When people objected that The Green Book was ‘ just words ’ — a strong condemnation in Huaiwiri — Salah said that of course some parts of it were not as good as others , but it was foolish to condemn everything in it just because some parts of it were wrong . |
| 26 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 27 | Labour 's prescription for the British economy would be risible , if it were not so dangerous . |
| 28 | If it were not for the debilitating character question , Clinton would surely have a fair chance of beating Bush . |
| 29 | I am inclined to back Alexander 's argument that grouping would occur in most predated species if it were not for additional factors dispersing the individuals in relation to their food supply . |
| 30 | Indeed , on average , each pair of cod produces only two offspring of opposite sexes that survive to breed in the course of their lives , for if it were not so , the population of cod would grow and grow , which it clearly does not . |