Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it 's not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many feminists will come this far with me but still shy away from the idea of pay for childcare , even when we 've clarified that it 's not the same demand as Wages for Housework . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When will ordinary people realise that it 's not just god bands that put out records . |
| 4 | I realise that it 's not only an illness , I suppose , but it 's quite selfish in a way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 7 | erm For example if erm two people are walking down the street and there 's a certain amount of jostling , then the victim , if he is a victim , may well consider that it 's not violent , or that it 's nothing out of the ordinary , or that it 's something which is acceptable , and then not take the matter any farther . |
| 8 | The trick is if you go away it does n't look like you have , and erm the same thing happens in a design studio , or if you 're the art director of a publication or of a book publisher , that everybody works together so it looks like it 's not all the same person doing everything . |
| 9 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 10 | no you can wait because er you can wait because it 's not going to be that long |
| 11 | Yeah but you do n't know whether it 's not er people phoning up to find out who 's there and whether he 's there and all to do with burglaries and things . |
| 12 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
| 13 | ‘ Jason was here when I came , proving that it 's not what a player costs but what he does that counts . ’ |
| 14 | However , his distressed natural fabrics are an eerily beautiful choice for the contemporary aesthete , proving that it 's not always necessary for fashion designers to be timelords too . |
| 15 | Though we threaten her with a headline reading ‘ Real Labour candidates do n't eat muesli ’ she insists that it 's not for her own consumption . |
| 16 | The spokesman also admitted that it 's not the first time the ladies have been hauled over the coals for selling fags . |
| 17 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 18 | It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves . |
| 19 | ( Eventually the railway is either built or it 's not . ) |
| 20 | You must have noticed that it 's not working , Faye . ’ |
| 21 | Popek says that it 's not clear that WABI solves the critical question of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 22 | Popek says that it 's not clear that Wabi solves the critical problem of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 23 | Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him . |
| 24 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 25 | I am very sure that you will agree with me , if I may borrow a phrase from Joyce , that we all hope that it 's not at all unlikely that George Craig will come again to preach . |
| 26 | It does n't matter that it 's not real silk . ’ |
| 27 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 28 | concerts and things , but you can , you can tell , with just , just by listening that it 's not just any old body tinkling on the piano , it 's wonderful , it makes you sick . |
| 29 | He says if it 's not cut down it literally chokes the jungle and so every four or five years the mangrove is cut and then it grows again like a blackthorn or hawthorn hedge would grow . |
| 30 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |