Example sentences of "[adj] it [is] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money . |
| 2 | Request : Joan Hammell , his secretary , wrote to say : ‘ I am afraid it is not going to prove possible for Mr Kinnock to make a contribution as much as he would love to . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't look so serious it 's not working , ’ joked Diana as she introduced Adam Russell to the Queen , Prince Charles and other members of the royal family in the receiving line at the ball held-at Buckingham Palace two days before her wedding . |
| 4 | People say they 're sad it 's not used , but when it was used they did n't come . |
| 5 | Glad it 's not raining . ’ |
| 6 | 2 Take the old till roll out carefully ( make sure it is not damaged , thereby losing valuable information ) . |
| 7 | It is the task of the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to make sure it is not wasted . |
| 8 | David Pickles , the BIHA secretary , said : ‘ We are determined to uphold the tremendous family image of our sport and it is the reponsibility of clubs to make sure it is not tarnished . ’ |
| 9 | What we 're actually doing is checking the firing pin is n't broken and looking down the barrel to make sure it 's not blocked and is properly oiled . |
| 10 | If you want to protect your livelihood or protect the environment you 're living in , you 'd do everything possible to make sure it 's not damaged by this way or any other means . ’ |
| 11 | Therefore if you issue a licence like this the local authorities can check up , market people can god own and make sure it 's not getting out of hand and the local police know the sort of traffic to expect and therefore can control . |
| 12 | To make sure it 's not gon na have a motorway going through in next year or whatever and |
| 13 | When a film has only three minutes to sell itself , at least you can be sure it 's not going to waste time trying to sell you anything else . |
| 14 | As long as I 'm not I said , Are you sure it 's not going to be too late , cos I 'll be forty five minutes . |
| 15 | I 'm sure it 's not allowed to keep people in solitary for long periods . |
| 16 | I 'm not trying to work something new , it 's already around and I just wanted to make sure it 's not forgotten . |
| 17 | yeah because the person er who 's job it is to deal with the sulks for want of a better phrase there is not is preferring not to tackle the issue because as far as she 's concerned it 's not affecting the efficiency of the office , that 's what I 'm trying to say and it 's not , in fact it 's added to the efficiency of the office if anything . |
| 18 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 19 | Such figures underline how important it is not to forget the North-South divide amid the dust thrown up by the Eastern Europe upheaval . |
| 20 | A neat little envelope that 's supporting quite firm , that 's supporting the elbow , now pin it , again , now you can see how important it is not to have lots and lots of bandage up here , cos what will you do with it then ? |
| 21 | You know how important it is not to look exceptional . |
| 22 | Although Tracey Cole 's case is extreme it 's not isolated , In January Pamela Wray hanged herself at her parents home in Oxford , because she felt inadequate . |
| 23 | Thank you very much indeed for talking to us John er er and I 'm so sorry it 's not going to be more of a a m m milestone in your life . |
| 24 | I am very sorry it is not typed out , but my secretary is ill . ’ |
| 25 | But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family . |
| 26 | In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level . |
| 27 | to all er o o on both sides , erm there 's one point he made which is terrible important which is that the costs of this statutory instrument and all the guidelines and rules and regulations and orders that flow from it , will not impact onto small b business because that was the key to the deregulation bill and I wonder whether the deregulation unit has looked at this and whether it is satisfied it 's not gon na be an additional cost onto the running of small enterprise . |