Example sentences of "not [verb] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Given my hon. Friend 's well-known commitment to productivity , efficiency and careful spending of money in the public sector , I am surprised by her suggestion and I do not think that it is tremendously sensible .
2 of my households are single-person households — I do not think that it is quite that high — I shall make absolutely certain that every one knows the Labour party 's policy for them .
3 It is expensive to buy food that children do not eat and it is very easy for the mother to fall into the trap of offering the child only what she thinks the child still likes .
4 The CAP can not survive because it is totally unrelated to the realities of a free market .
5 ( b ) Provided the the kind of damage is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that it is more extensive than could have been foreseen .
6 To fall , in , towards the nucleus it would have to lose all its energy , and this it can not do as it is continually absorbing energy from the ether which balances with the amount it naturally radiates .
7 While acquisitions , disposals and foreign subsidiaries all feature , I do not believe that it is particularly difficult — if you have a basic understanding and are willing to think in broad financial accounting terms .
8 I do not believe that it is entirely their fault , because they almost certainly have producers and controllers who tell them what they may or may not discuss .
9 Of course there is drug abuse in athletics , but I do not believe that it is as widespread as the press and some of the anti-campaigners make out .
10 With respect to my hon. Friend , I do not believe that it is ever possible to cut a hard-and-fast line .
11 Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ?
12 As for another Childwall resident stating she can not sleep as it is so bright , we have the opposite trouble .
13 Their emotional development was not understood as it is today .
14 I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits !
15 That can not happen until it is also ratified by three newly-independent , former Soviet republics which have long-range nuclear weapons stationed on their soil .
16 Despite these traditions , analysis of student results does not indicate that it is more difficult to gain a first in arts than it is in science subjects .
17 This does not mean that it is simply an exercise in resource management .
18 To give power to arrest on reasonable suspicion does not mean that it is always or even ordinarily to be exercised .
19 The fact that the beer has been produced in a different way does not mean that it is therefore harmful , and so on .
20 Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being .
21 And remember , just because a lender brings out a loan with the ‘ professional ’ as its target market , this does not mean that it is necessarily the right one for you , no matter what your taste in trousers .
22 If this anthropological effort is what emerges most clearly from the Formen , we must not forget that it is here , as in all Marx 's work , for a political purpose .
23 Having ranged rapidly through the materials that are datable by TL , we must not forget that it is also widely used in authenticity testing of both ceramics and the casting cores of bronzes .
24 But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like .
25 Mathematically , of course , the perception of non-rigid motion is more complex ; but this does not prove that it is biologically secondary to the perception of rigid objects .
26 Even the original Tele guitar was designed to have some bass-playing ability , and as a consequence was not wired as it is today , although it did possess the customary three-way selector switch .
27 Despite the recent changes in South Africa , let us not pretend that it is suddenly squeaky clean .
28 Often cancers of these organs are not discovered until it is too late to cure them : less than 8% of lung cancer patients are alive five years after diagnosis [ 2 ] .
29 It is not stated but it is also probably true that the greater is the haste for union the greater will be the potential dislocation .
30 There is also a marked convenience element in the use of the product , Respondents , typically Stated that cotton wool is : " economical " or " works out cheaper " , but did not say that it is more convenient than washing and reusing facial flannels or cloths .
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