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 | 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 . |
| 11 | do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference . |
| 12 | But I somehow feel that it 's not a sort of social occasion … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | If we hoard money , it soon learns that it is not needed , and we no longer attract it . |
| 17 | It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought . |
| 18 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 19 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 20 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs . |
| 21 | I can still run although it 's not so easy these days |
| 22 | The second possibility that Nikolaev committed the murder under the guidance of the NKVD seems to be more likely that the first possibility because so many people seem to have conveniently neglected their duties but I still think that it is not the most likely . |
| 23 | And would n't it be awful if he ever realized that it 's not very important to us , that we 'd rather not be safe if only he had the courage to take our safety away … " |
| 24 | Despite a large Roman Catholic following and a Catholic convert , Phyllis Bowman , as its national director , the society 's leadership has always insisted that it is not — unlike its ally Pro-Life — a primarily Catholic organisation . |
| 25 | Juan and Pepe , who run the bar , luckily need little sleep and it is not uncommon for revellers returning from the star club at 4.00am to find a bar party in full swing . |
| 26 | It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved . |
| 27 | The spokesman also admitted that it 's not the first time the ladies have been hauled over the coals for selling fags . |
| 28 | We confirm here that IL-6DBP is expressed constitutively in Hep3B , but we also show that it is not present in the major IL-6 induced complex protein DNA . |
| 29 | In the future , every time you caution a person , enter the particulars in your notebook , and see he does n't get a second caution , and also remember that it is not necessary to caution a person before summonsing or arresting him , as the case may be . |
| 30 | I also believe that it is not so subject to all the particular points that the Lord suggests against it . |