Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [not/n't] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 For him , the first question is , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ , as though it were obviously not simply a matter of having the sensation in a certain place .
2 Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er
3 But it 's really not just a closed coterie .
4 IT IS now not just a question of how long can John Major survive , but whether the Tory Government can stay its term .
5 It is now not only a feature of the relationship between blacks and whites .
6 It is perhaps not entirely a coincidence that his question was due to be answered today and the representations from the two trade unions arrived in the Department yesterday .
7 It was thus not just an ordinary collection of laws , as other previous collections had been , such as those of Burchard of Worms ( 1012 ) and Ivo of Chartres ( 1091 ) , but the beginning of the whole critical study of the canon law , the science of canonistics , indeed , of jurisprudence .
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