Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] it [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 2 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 3 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 4 | And if it is n't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it is n't honey . |
| 5 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 6 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
| 7 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 8 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 9 | Peter Gillman suggests that it was not until TV South West made a film ‘ A Trust Betrayed ’ , and consulted Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University , that a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence of poisoning and the official view that it could not happen came to light . |
| 10 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 11 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |
| 12 | Astington found that it was not until the age of nine years that the majority of children gave consistently correct responses . |
| 13 | ‘ Not really , because we wrote the songs before Phil left and it is n't our new drummer on the album , apart from one track ; it 's a mystery subscriber on the other tracks . ’ |
| 14 | After the crisis was over , some Allied leaders began to wonder whether restoring Kuwaiti sovereignty had justified the effort involved — US Secretary of State Baker remarked that it was not ‘ the optimum type of regime ’ . |
| 15 | Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game . |
| 16 | Mr Wakeley feels that it is not cost effective to use more machines : ‘ You ca n't have all your staff training at the same time . |
| 17 | NCR lost because it was not prepared to develop yet another generation of the 9800 — derived from the company 's Criterion line , which dates back to 1976 . |
| 18 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
| 19 | Birkeland commented that it was not useful to blame poor populations for exploiting the few resources that they had , when fishing or mining reefs could earn them millions of dollars . |
| 20 | And so , Nicodemus learned that it was n't by reformation , trying to make himself better , or by being religious , but he need regeneration , that 's what regeneration means . |
| 21 | Mr Chope said that it was not appropriate to discuss Westminster security , but the agency already contracted out most building work , including work with a high security content for the Defence Ministry . |
| 22 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 23 | Sarah knew that it was not the funeral that had put the sad look on her daughter-in-law 's face , but something quite different . |
| 24 | Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him . |
| 25 | There was something funny here , and Lydia suspected that it was not the sort of funniness that she would enjoy . |
| 26 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 27 | Through his haze , Charles realised that it was n't just the crisis that made them so deferential ; it was the part he was now playing , too . |
| 28 | Brown and Harris found that it was not only discrete events which could provoke depression . |
| 29 | However , having considered the arguments , Lord Bingham said that it was not a subject that lent itself to absolute rules . |
| 30 | The Japanese Ministry of Education 's National Institute of Fusion Science says that its NEC Corp SX-3 Model 24 supercomputer successfully fulfilled all the requirements specified in the initial contract bid : the contract was concluded last June , and was the subject of a challenge by Cray Research Inc late last year , and Cray was permitted to observe the operation of the new computer ; according to the Nikkei Industrial News , Cray complained that it was unable to obtain sufficient data on hardware issues such as NEC magneto-optical installed with the SX-3 , which NEC claims are the fastest in the world , and on the ultra high-speed HIPPI channel linked to them ; on the software side , Cray said that it was not able to obtain information on the efficiency of the automatic parallelising function ; for its part , NEC announced simply that the supercomputer was in full operation . |