Example sentences of "is [conj] it [is] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device . |
| 2 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 3 | Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities , and therefore has an across-the-board application to different sources of endangerment . |
| 4 | Perhaps its most important aspect is that it is not confined to a particular region . |
| 5 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 6 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 7 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 8 | The real problem with formal education is that it is n't meant to make everyone almost equally successful . |
| 9 | So as you said the danger is that it 's not balanced for our delegates and the ideal is that we want the combination of all four . |
| 10 | ‘ What I was going to say is that it 's not working out , is it ? |
| 11 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |