Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [is] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she must know that it is n't clever to be asked to leave a country while on assignment . |
| 2 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 3 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 4 | which it looks like it is n't . |
| 5 | Well you bu you 'll know if it is n't . |
| 6 | ‘ As far as the clothing is concerned , it 's all in the reports , but to save you time I can tell you more or less what we found and it is n't a great deal . |
| 7 | Probably you 'd already gathered that it is n't the first time he 's played similar tricks , and that he 's a law to himself , and comes and goes as he pleases . |
| 8 | And do n't think that it is n't a temptation . |
| 9 | And this time no one will even try to pretend that it is n't murder . ’ |
| 10 | Unwisely , he added : ‘ I 'm beginning to see that it is n't enough . ’ |
| 11 | But the school insists that it is n't selling out to commercial interests |
| 12 | And it also enjoys the magical flexibility of a workforce which is there when it is needed and simply vanishes when it is n't . |
| 13 | But there was just enough from John Major this week to suggest that it is n't a fantasy either . |
| 14 | But we can now see that it is n't like that at all . |
| 15 | You must see that it is n't natural . |
| 16 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 17 | Bill : I know that it is n't always possible but the idea is not only not to feel guilty if you do , but to feel quite happy about it and about your lover/lovers doing it too . |
| 18 | And we can safely bet that it is n't being so generous . |
| 19 | This is such hard work that you may decide that it is n't worth the effort and abandon your attempt to acquire the skills in question . |
| 20 | Having said that , you may come to the conclusion that you do n't want to continue because it is n't what YOU want to do . |
| 21 | The effects of stimulation are ‘ all-or-none ’ : either a saccade is elicited or it is n't , and its size and direction are not related to the intensity or frequency of stimulation in the colliculus . |
| 22 | If the atheist uncovers ‘ His ’ identity , then lo and behold the theists start saying that it is n't God after all . |
| 23 | And if it is n't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it is n't honey . |
| 24 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 25 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 26 | but just at the moment in P Way we feel that it is n't possibly going that way |
| 27 | ‘ You must try to understand that it is n't a message , as such . |
| 28 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 29 | One hopes that it is n't Artai . ’ |
| 30 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |