Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] [pron] is [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 2 | ’ People think it 's a cruel way of doing it but it is n't really , because there 'll be shooting snaring and gasing , which is worse that the way we do it ’ ’ Foxes have to be controlled , fox hunting in the last 250 years have controlled the numbers beautifully ’ |
| 3 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 4 | He says they have formed the notion that it is legal , he is telling them that it is not . |
| 5 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it is n't possible , that I imagined it . ’ |