Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected . |
| 3 | Friedman and Rosenman ( 1974 ) suggest that it is not a question of getting rid of Type-A behaviour , rather that we should learn to manage it . |
| 4 | In fact , however , international comparisons strongly suggest that it is not the most downtrodden and deprived who provide the most militant source of protest . |
| 5 | This growth in women 's propensity to take paid work probably has both economic and social origins , but our analyses of fertility suggest that it is not an important explanatory factor in the ‘ baby bust ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I suggest that it is not a matter which a man wishes his employer to know about . ’ |
| 7 | Summala ( 1984 ) , however , suggest that it is not the detection of signs but memory for them which is likely to be faulty . |
| 8 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 9 | Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing . |
| 10 | He should know that it is not the Government who take action in these matters , but the Attorney-General . |
| 11 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 12 | Both its generic name Sciadopitys and its English name refer to the strap-shaped leaves which are arranged in whorls like the spokes of an umbrella , although it must be stressed that it is not a true pine . |
| 13 | It should be stressed that it is not nearness to industry per se which drew agricultural wages upwards , but proximity to the expanding newer industrial regions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff . |
| 16 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 17 | There must be some gain to the citizen , however minimal , in living under a constitution which regularises the way in which power is exercised ; even where government is authoritarian , it matters that it is not arbitrary . |
| 18 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 19 | ‘ Old enough , I think , to know that it is not . ’ |
| 20 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 21 | Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation . |
| 22 | They propose that it is not , in fact , inherently dysfunctional and should be valued as something positive and authentic : different , not inferior . |
| 23 | Even this affects church life , as I shall show , but we must recognise that it is not only rank hedonism that flourishes under private banners . |
| 24 | However , he should recognise that it is not just the consumer who responds to ‘ market forces ’ . |
| 25 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 26 | It should never be forgotten that it is not only by using trusts or companies in tax havens that fiscal advantages may be obtained . |
| 27 | Disruptive behaviour has a direct and , at times , devastating impact upon teachers , but it is important to establish that it is not a recent phenomenon . |
| 28 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 29 | I noticed this with distaste , and rejoiced that it was not the asparagus season . |
| 30 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |