Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the rest , it is distasteful where it is not dull . |
| 2 | And why are we telling them this if it 's not eligible for consideration as a possible way of depriving us of an cash ? |
| 3 | Well the price you actually see on the er we do n't say free cos it 's not |
| 4 | If P is some occam term and x is a variable , we say that an occurrence of x in P is free if it is not in the scope of any declaration ( other than a parallel declaration ) of x in P , and bound otherwise . |
| 5 | But I thought that erm barn dance or something like that would be favourite cos it 's not too expensive and it 's something that everybody can muck in on . |
| 6 | it 's quite important to be very specific about how you do this because it 's not just a matter of putting on clothes |
| 7 | We mention this because it is not unknown for some US authors to encash money orders and neglect to send the goods . |
| 8 | Thus an inductivist rationalist might rule that astrology is not a science because it is not inductively derivable from the facts of observation , whilst a falsificationist might rule that Marxism is not scientific because it is not falsifiable . |
| 9 | The strike was related to the refusal of the bantustan authorities to recognize the National Union of Mineworkers which it regarded as foreign since it was not registered in the bantustan , but in South Africa itself . |
| 10 | Sometimes people assume that the meaning of a pronoun is clear when it is not . |
| 11 | Conversely , to state the law as doubtful when it is not doubtful will also be penalised in marks . |
| 12 | It led her to believe that her deluded behaviour was within the realm of the acceptable when it was not . |
| 13 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 14 | In two respects , however , the definition is wider than at common law in that the Act ( a ) renders a species dangerous if it poses a threat to property and ( b ) allows for a species to be considered dangerous if it is not commonly domesticated in Britain , even though it may be so domesticated overseas . |
| 15 | More straightforward were the comments recorded by Leonora Eyles of women in the early 1920s who declared that they would not mind married life so much if it were not for bedtime , or the anecdote related by a birth control pioneer to a 1930 conference on the provision of birth control information by public health authorities : |
| 16 | It means it 's got to be heavier cos it 's not a single fabric , so it 's ideal for heavier chunky knits . |
| 17 | The research team succeeded in getting their prize pair of chimps , Austin and Sherman , to flash images at each other and to respond appropriately by fetching the object signified for the other or to return empty-handed if it were not there . |
| 18 | Held that it was not taxable because it was not paid under an enforceable contract . |
| 19 | This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless . |
| 20 | It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely . |
| 21 | Other species from one particular microhabitat in the region may be over-represented in the predator assemblage if it is a favoured hunting area or under-represented if it is not ( see Append . |
| 22 | This may seem confusing if it is not made clear what she means by ‘ literal ’ . |
| 23 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 24 | Erm not necessarily no but er yes that that is partly important in that if it 's not there you ca n't use it . |
| 25 | For a necessary condition for such knowledge , 3 ( that if it were not true that you are not a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat ) fails . |
| 26 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 27 | A non-zero non-unit polynomial f will be called reducible iff it is not irreducible . |
| 28 | He said a derailment was likely if it was not replaced soon . |
| 29 | Because of the way the drag works , it 's better if it it 's worst if it 's not quite head on , but slightly offset from head on . |
| 30 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |