Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] it [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 3 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 4 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 5 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 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 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 8 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 9 | ( Eventually the railway is either built or it 's not . ) |
| 10 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 11 | But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 13 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 14 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 15 | The squash had an undertaste that I could n't identify but it was n't unpleasant and I happily drank it . |
| 16 | It 's something she would naturally do but it was not the job alone that spurred the gentleman to buy her flowers . |
| 17 | that 's er one of those upright ones in there she said yeah I thought Claire might be interested in that and so I was thinking it was like the ones we 've seen but it 's not , it 's completely round and it 's on erm like a stand like that , you know , it 's an upright |
| 18 | He looked wise and solemn when he said this , because he knew that ladies — even sorceress 's daughters — had their own ideas about what they ought to wear and it was not to be supposed that Flame would be any different . |
| 19 | It is the trap into which Italy has fallen and it is not an example to be copied . |
| 20 | It is the trap into which Italy has fallen and it is not an example to be copied . |
| 21 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 22 | There was no official word on where and when Dubcek would be buried and it was not clear whether one of the country 's best-known modern politicians would receive a state funeral . |
| 23 | But it is an expensive one in terms of living tissue produced and it is not the only one possible . |
| 24 | The operation , originally planned for early afternoon , was re-scheduled and it was n't until quarter to six that she returned to the ward , still feeling groggy from the anaesthetic . |
| 25 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 26 | The pattern of appropriate allocation is also highly sensitive to the morbidity measures used and it is not clear how variations in morbidity relate to actual resource needs . |
| 27 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 28 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 29 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 30 | At least , this might be the view that Norton-Taylor wishes to promote but it is not readily evident in his book . |