Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ IT 'S NOT NEW , IT 'S NOT MUSICAL AND IT 'S NOT PARTICULARLY EXPRESS ’ |
| 2 | A body needs at least two people to carry it any distance from a car , and it 's not easily disguised . |
| 3 | ‘ Knowing when prisoners are ready to respond is the skill you learn to develop here ’ , said one ; ‘ the staff are a good lot and there is a positive culture in which to work — but you still have to work out when real work is possible and it 's not just meeting institutional demands . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And they do n't make concessions and it 's not just airpistols firing paint blobules . |
| 5 | and then coming back and it 's not fucking working properly ! |
| 6 | But it 's not like the local newspaper and it 's not like having a group of young people on a bank of telephones phoning every |
| 7 | And it 's not only risking my life it 's risking their lives as well . |
| 8 | And it 's not only revolving around this of course , it 's about the other things that we 're going to stimulate your interest with as we go through the afternoon . |
| 9 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 10 | It will only be small at the outset for example one might get the opportunity to go in and on or might get the opportunity to go and advise on P R P or something and it 's not suddenly going to result in an invitation er to . |
| 11 | You are becoming so hard and bitter and it 's not really like you . ’ |
| 12 | HIV is very fragile , and it is not easily transmitted . |
| 13 | But no link is suggested between them , and it is not yet clear what the point of the essay is . |
| 14 | The relationship between citation and use is particularly complicated , and it is not yet known what factors determine which items in a collection will be read or cited and the relative importance of age among them . |
| 15 | Peterson ( 1980 ) comments that spelling correction is not cheap , but then neither is it prohibitively expensive , and it is not normally needed . |
| 16 | When one studies the literature one finds that , surprising as it may seem , the weight of legal opinion is in favour of the second view ; and it is not even clear what is the proper legal means that the Crown should use to establish misbehaviour before dismissing a judge . |
| 17 | The leadership may purge the apparatus , but it dare not eliminate it , and it is not about to take an axe to itself . |
| 18 | In Italy some development in the south has occurred , though it is of a fragile and unbalanced nature , and it is not seriously suggested that this area is yet capable of self-sustained growth . |
| 19 | Of course , even if insider trading had some tendency to make the market smoother the benefit from that smoothness ( and it is not entirely clear why smooth gradual movements are preferable to sudden jumps ) might not be worth its cost . |
| 20 | And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention . |
| 21 | It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name . |
| 22 | There are no garish signboards promising services and supplies , no welcoming notices and it is not readily located by strangers without a map . |
| 23 | It is hardly surprising that there is a high degree of confusion and it is not always clear who is to blame ( or can claim credit ) for particular activities . |
| 24 | But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) . |
| 25 | The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure . |
| 26 | The study ( admittedly a small one with 33 observations of handwashing ) demonstrated that the technique was poor ; the time taken was brief ; and it was not even carried out after all ‘ dirty ’ interventions . |
| 27 | When Lewis moved his teaching from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954 , for the last nine years of his life , the drama of that confrontation was somewhat intensified , and it was not always noticed in the heat of debate how much they shared . |
| 28 | Gruesome flogging cartoons and fantasies of violent reprisal dominated the response , and when the magazine crashed down against the garotting packs and the sentimentalists ( and it was not always clear who was supposed to be the real villain ) both humour and artistic quality were sometimes surrendered as hostages to the gout . |
| 29 | Our first loss , as you correctly said , was at Palace , and it was not only lost in the last minute , it was in the 94th minute of a terrible game . |
| 30 | A Court of Protection exists to defend elderly or mentally incapacitated people , but it is not widely known . |