Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking up the surface is well worth avoiding , firstly to save it and give yourself another heavenly run tomorrow , and secondly because when your edges start to catch it 's not much fun to ski and can be dangerous . |
| 2 | The way to find it was not by diplomacy and negotiation ( though these had their part ) , still less by razzmatazz and public relations , but by trying to get nearer to God . |
| 3 | When he took off the covers next morning he was shocked to find it was not a ‘ small tub worth £100 or so ’ but a sophisticated sailing vessel . |
| 4 | Gingerly she took a sip of the soup , surprised to find it was not only delicious but nothing to do with any can or packet . |
| 5 | They land on the volcanic planet of Tigus only to discover it is not the Daleks but their old foe from 1066 , the Time Meddling Monk . |
| 6 | That was the movie in which Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye went to Vermont for the holiday to discover it was not snowing when it jolly well should have been . |
| 7 | Nice to know it 's not too far distant . |
| 8 | But it 's important to remember it 's not painful because something is wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ The important thing , ’ he quoted almost to himself , ‘ is to remember it 's not brute force with a fixed-spool reel ; just a controlled flick . ’ |
| 10 | We know that there are in principle X young people who could qualify for that entitlement — that information is available from the census — but their choice whether or when to exercise it is not predictable . |
| 11 | The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people . |
| 12 | to do it 's not very dangerous . |
| 13 | And the who 's going to do it is not determined until a couple of days before either party knows . |
| 14 | Though you may wish to insist it is not true , the fact remains that Leos are as stubborn as the stains on a butcher 's tunic . |
| 15 | M. Dupont held up his hand , though whether to acknowledge the applause or to stem it was not clear . |
| 16 | To read it is not to be entertained by ‘ a good yarn ’ , but to share Proust 's recreation of what he believes the nature , the quality , the , almost the texture , as it were , of various kinds of human experience , to be like . |
| 17 | The first value is collected from the look-up table and stored in location DELAY , which is checked to ensure it is not zero , because a zero value indicates that the end of the table has been reached . |
| 18 | Israeli planes made the jet land at an airstrip in the plain of Armageddon , used by crop-dusting planes , to ensure it was not booby-trapped . |
| 19 | In the course of one chapter we find the following phrases , in this order : there seems no explanation on Darwinian grounds It is no easier to explain It is hard to understand It is not easy to understand It is equally difficult to explain I do not find it easy to comprehend I do not find it easy to see … |
| 20 | However , despite what Lord Diplock seemed to believe it is not the case that direct challenges to governmental decisions by way of judicial review are unlikely to raise factual issues : in particular , challenges based on breach of natural justice or on error of fact may well raise difficult and complex issues of fact . |
| 21 | However , regarding the actions of coalition forces , " we want to believe it was not a crusade , it was not colonialism … subsequent actions will prove all this to us " . |
| 22 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
| 23 | ‘ I know we 're going to die it 's not my fault , oh my God ! ’ |
| 24 | Hammering a metal to harden it is not uncommon : this was the way of hardening the edges of copper and bronze weapons and the old clockmakers always hammered their brass gear-wheels . |
| 25 | However , the more usual way to represent it is not in terms of deviations of the actual unemployment rate from its natural rate but in terms of deviations of the logarithm of output , y , from its natural value , y * ; . |
| 26 | Slowly people began to realise it was not a miracle after all , but the reward for an enormous amount of hard work , planning and discipline which ensured they were the fittest and best-prepared England team ever , ; a very professional approach which saw them practising endlessly ; high-class line and length bowling , backed up by excellent fielding , which had the West Indian batsmen constantly under pressure ; sound batsmanship to build on the bowlers ' successes ; and a crackling team spirit fostered by Gooch which one could not remember seeing in an England team in years . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's no reason at the moment to suppose it 's not benign , but if we don t take it out , it could turn nasty . |
| 28 | Where savagery is allowed to remain it is not static but works to corrupt the civilised . |
| 29 | I try to pretend it is not happening but I know it is . ’ |
| 30 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |