Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] not [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright
2 It was ah no I mean it was you know it 's not that it was Do you mind if I watch the news at six ?
3 Thing is though it 's not that I really care about him personally , you know it 's not that I 'm thinking oh it 's a real shame , but it 's just , and usually if , if people are complete dicks I think well er you know , sod them
4 Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case .
5 when you need people , well it , there 's , there 's been a programme on this morning there saying it 's not that there , this is vote for your , for your parliament you know , what you call it ?
6 So considered as an action , Pooh 's observation will succeed if this belief of his is true : that is , if tasting what 's in the pot will in fact make Pooh believe it 's honey if it is honey , and believe it 's not if it 's not .
7 I mean it 's painful , I mean it 's not that this
8 Let's say X is was ten , I mean it 's not but let's say it was , we 'd have ten add two brackets ten add four .
9 I mean it 's not as though Charles actually cut Paul 's head off .
10 And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing .
11 I mean it 's not as though you made a lot of effort , it wo n't take us long to nip over can always have look around that furniture place and our carpets I know that 's one of these cos I got that .
12 I mean it 's not as though I 've bought a house which has got anything wrong with it .
13 Although Glam was finally banished it was not before he had cursed his employer , saying he would ‘ see with a ghost 's sight ’ .
14 Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives .
15 But I I du n no , I see it 's not once you 're u actually up here , looking I think it 's different when you 're up here looking back as when you 're over there looking up here .
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