Example sentences of "[pron] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
| 2 | Despite what some modern choreographers seem to believe , the human body has certain well-defined limitations beyond which it is not possible to go , no matter how hard the choreographers push their intellectual ideas . |
| 3 | Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm . |
| 4 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 5 | Thus , unless the table shown is a reproduction , which it is not , it would have been made within a comparatively short period . |
| 6 | If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing . |
| 7 | However a hand drill can be a useful extra tool for making holes in locations remote from a power supply , or simply for a one-off drilling job in the workshop for which it is not worth unpacking and setting up a power tool . |
| 8 | ( Compare ideals of love of which this is true with those of which it is not . ) |
| 9 | I have a routine to which it is not always possible to keep : writing in the morning for about three hours , then the rest of the day for other business . |
| 10 | Even if the possession of essential components was crucial to man , which it is not , would it be justified to say that an animal which does not have these components could not feel pain ? |
| 11 | for example , today the Shetland is invariably black-and-white pied , looking as if it is a distorted Friesian ( which it is not ) , but in 1912 its herdbook recorded only a dozen black or black-and-white bulls outnumbered by a score of duns or dun-and-whites , and there were also reds , blues and greys . |
| 12 | In principle , of course , it also implies an independent bargaining role of government and the state , in which it is not solely responsive to the demands of particular dominant interests . |
| 13 | It is also likely that this view is a departure from earlier law , in which it is not attested . |
| 14 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 15 | The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service . |
| 16 | This was a very different type of nationalism from that which had produced the United States of America , and one which it is not easy to explain , as has sometimes been attempted , in terms of Gandhi 's attachment to traditional Hindu notions of self-purification . |
| 17 | During the week of the general election , Britain is threatening to take part in an attack on two countries with which it is not at war . |
| 18 | If this is relativity it is like Einstein 's , by which it is not that you can make any measurement come out as you please , but that from any spatio-temporal viewpoint you can estimate what will be the right measurement from any other . |
| 19 | This is , of course , an issue of much wider social and political significance which it is not part of my brief to explore . |
| 20 | However , when one becomes more detailed and specific , differences emerge , which it is not easy to envisage without personal experiences , either of one 's own or of other old people . |
| 21 | It occurs when a writer applies a name or a descriptive term to an object to which it is not literally applicable ; when a word is carried over from its normal use to a new use . |
| 22 | The same applies if the dog takes other things such as slippers which it is not supposed to have , although it is equally important to replace them out of reach for the future . |
| 23 | The challenge is to help create a climate within which it is not just acceptable but normal for teachers to talk openly about their feelings , their perceptions , their misgivings , their ideals and their experiments , whether large or small , successful or unsuccessful . |
| 24 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 25 | He argued that correctionalism ‘ systematically interferes with the capacity to empathise and thus comprehend the subject of enquiry ’ ( ibid. , p. 15 ) , and consequently increases ‘ the possibility of ‘ losing the phenomenon ’ — reducing it to that which it is not ’ ( ibid. p. 17 ) . |
| 26 | In layman 's terms , this means that the knee joint is slightly bent in a direction in which it is not intended to bend . |
| 27 | This makes it appear up-market , which it is not , but the jacket copy makes that clear . |
| 28 | ‘ A shot from Charlton , especially if hit on the run from outside the penalty area , is one of the great events of the sport , not because it is rare , which it is not , but because the power of it is massive and it erupts out of elegance , ’ Arthur Hopcraft , who followed Charlton 's career from shy schoolboy to elder statesman , wrote in his classic account of the English game , The Football Man . |
| 29 | the different principle of reducing the scope of capital punishment to the minimum necessary for that preservation of law and order , and confining it to those forms of murder for which it is not only a particularly necessary , but is also believed to be a particularly effective , deterrent . |
| 30 | While third party analysis in the context of international organisations gives this distinction some validity , in other areas it is less significant , as it is difficult to assert that a State is completely foreign to the effects of an agreement to which it is not a party . |