Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If your hair looks much straighter and flatter than usual the conditioner is either too heavy for your particular type of hair type or it is not washed out properly .
2 if they alter your round , er and it 's not collecting as much
3 But , if I go back and it 's not cleared up it might ruddy come back again !
4 They 're both because , the other one 's got a fault in it and it 's not working properly
5 Something 's eating the profits and it 's not entered here .
6 The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them
7 Secondly , paralinguistic features of the ‘ vocal effect ’ type are treated as part of intonation , and it is not made sufficiently clear how these are to be distinguished from prosodic features .
8 It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere .
9 Others were selected , and it is not known how , as the parish church for an area , in which the sacraments of baptism , marriage and burial were allowed .
10 At the time of the investigation , 300 cases were still in hospital and it is not known how many will later develop cirrhosis of the liver , to which veno-occlusive disease is known to be contributory factor .
11 Serratosa 's coverage of organic synthesis is too fragmented and too personalised to make the book an undergraduate text , and it is not advanced enough for postgraduates .
12 The idealism of this approach is obvious , and it is not pursued very far .
13 All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people .
14 ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’
15 The rank shown for Hopkins appears to be sergeant , but it is not understood why he is not grouped with the other three , Lochead , Mullen and Nicholl .
16 In the UK , licences will be issued by the Department of National Heritage and EC experts are working on the common export document but it is not finalised yet .
17 For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other .
18 It is seen as a necessary tool but it is not studied out of interest in the countries in which it is spoken .
19 Is the funding council to be the creature — it is an unpleasant word , but it is not meant unpleasantly — of the Scottish Office ?
20 These are ‘ low ’ standards compared to those of many other housewives in the sample , and the routine is there , but it is not anchored nearly so securely to set times of the day as Barbara Lipscombe 's .
21 Nevertheless the Act is based upon this distinction ; some other countries have followed the logic and applied the legislation to all forms of information systems , whether manual or electronic , but it is not known how effective such legislation is .
22 But it is not known how these skills relate to levels of proficiency or to the process of acquisition .
23 But it is not shown how God did it .
24 But it 's not taking away the erm , power of the planning committee on any other matter whatsoever .
25 But it 's not ended yet , is it ?
26 Ah yes but it 's not tipped correctly most of the time .
27 But it 's not going too well for me , Robyn .
28 I do n't know , but it 's not going in
29 yes , but it 's not working either
30 ‘ All right , gossip , but it 's not meant unkindly .
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