Example sentences of "and [vb base] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 2 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 3 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 4 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 5 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 6 | We shall maintain the assumption that expectations are rational , and show that it is not this assumption per se which leads to the ineffectiveness of systematic stabilization policy but its combination with ( inter alia ) the assumption of price flexibility . |
| 7 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 8 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 9 | The streets are narrow and twist and turn and it is not advisable to take a car up them . |
| 10 | If the task is completed successfully there is joy and satisfaction ; and there is disappointment , sadness and anger if it is not . |
| 11 | Touch the ‘ marble ’ and discover that it is not what it seems but beautifully painted plaster — scagliola . |
| 12 | , you glance at your watch and discover that it 's not half past is n't it ? |
| 13 | What is more likely to happen is that the intensity of the pain will gradually diminish as the weeks go by until , one day , you wake up and realize that it is not there any more . |
| 14 | Help them to stick up for themselves and see that it is not worth being treated badly just in order to have a best friend . |
| 15 | But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles . |