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

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1 Either it is raining or it is not raining .
2 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 .
3 Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected .
4 Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on !
5 Grey white chewing gum matter presents itself spasmodically at her mean Glasgow lips , alternating with her cigarette which is sucked when it is not rolling druggedly about on top of her ticket-issuing machine or charging up and down , and off , the long seat , dropping its fire and ash amongst the plastic cups and other less white rubbish , further propelled by chewed and muttered whinings about the discordant duet of erratic driving bus man and undone Corporation road holes .
6 The over-ridingly important point is made that it is not so much which subject is being learned , but rather how it is being learned .
7 The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee .
8 however , the program control stack is still cleared when the error is detected and it is not possible to RETURN to the point where the error occurred .
9 Fumaroli 's contribution to this argument is to insist that it is not so much the market which has blurred cultural standards , as much as the queasy relativism and condescending egalitarianism of State funding of pop culture .
10 It is running but it 's not showing us anything
11 And I 'm sure that that 's part of why sounds pretty good when he 's saying that it 's not the body that makes us who we are , it 's not the body that matters .
12 This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect .
13 Which is recognizing that it 's not there to start with .
14 With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem .
15 While this Canadian experiment attempts to provide as many performance measures as possible , it is admitted that it is not practical to provide measures for all programmes .
16 But the effectiveness of such supervision is questioned and it is not universal practice .
17 With cumulative preferred shares , all unpaid dividend payments cumulate and are paid when earnings are sufficient , unlike standard preferred shares , where a dividend is lost if it is not paid in any year .
18 Thousands of people do it every day ; what 's wrong with me that my inside 's screaming that it 's not real ?
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