Example sentences of "[that] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I 'll be told that it 's not about him at all , in that silly sense . |
| 2 | Grilled beef can take any style providing that it 's not too sweet ( as German mustards are ) or flavoured with an unsuitable herb such as dill . |
| 3 | I 'll ring up and say that it 's not for me . |
| 4 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , most of what has been written has been complete nonsense , so far from the truth that it 's not even funny . |
| 6 | You think at first that you have no choice , that it 's not up to you to decide on things like boyfriends — he 's sexy or he 's ugly — that you can just forget it . |
| 7 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 8 | Apart from the fact that it 's not the way we like our work to come to us , it has provided some other difficulties . |
| 9 | Let us remember that it 's not the popular , attractive people who need our help most , but the lonely and the unpopular … those it might be easier to laugh at than to be seen helping . |
| 10 | The trouble with that stuff is not that it 's bad , but that it 's not bad enough . |
| 11 | Thousands of people do it every day ; what 's wrong with me that my inside 's screaming that it 's not real ? |
| 12 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One advantage of this is that it 's not always the most expensive guitars that sound the best . |
| 15 | You ca n't say that it 's not helping bring people to the Sugar shows but after one show I hope they 'll forget about everything else . |
| 16 | ‘ The hardest part of being a fat person is that it 's not just your imagination that tells you you do n't count . |
| 17 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
| 18 | When will ordinary people realise that it 's not just god bands that put out records . |
| 19 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 20 | One of the reasons we chose the name U2 was to have that ambiguity which I think is necessary , so that it 's not so easy for people to make premature assumptions or wrong associations . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , the received opinion seems to be that you should have sex and that it 's not all right not to have it . |
| 22 | ‘ Jason was here when I came , proving that it 's not what a player costs but what he does that counts . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm just keeping my fingers crossed that it 's not too serious . ’ |
| 24 | One would like to think that it 's not going to happen here . |
| 25 | Just take it from me that it 's not in your best interests to go hunting around for the ship . ’ |
| 26 | We 've been brought up to think that it 's not nice and not polite to do so . |
| 27 | For instance , if you 've got a problem that you 're keen to talk about and I rush in to reassure you that it 's not a problem , I dodge your agenda . |
| 28 | Research into people 's needs and motivation indicates that it 's not just for the money — the financial aspect can be over-stressed . |
| 29 | He wanted an understanding with his family that it 's not the way we will live . |
| 30 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |