Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hardly surprising that there is a high degree of confusion and it is not always clear who is to blame ( or can claim credit ) for particular activities . |
| 2 | Flying demands all your concentration and it is not wise to risk flying if you have business worries or some other mental stress on your mind . |
| 3 | As one might expect , there are heavy responsibilities involved in making decisions about the future and it is not easy to become an actuary . |
| 4 | It 's the voice of the barman and it 's not a happy voice . |
| 5 | The information was collected after the attempt and it is not clear whether patients would have acted as they claimed they would but , taken at face value , the findings support the case for better health education and warning about the effects of drugs . |
| 6 | You er , ma , it balances out the er , benefits from like the whole of the term and it 's not necessarily , like a with profits system , you get a lot of bonuses at the very end . |
| 7 | We have already noted that he interprets the Gītā as a call to action and it is not without significance that he has been described as one of the foremost activist theoreticians and as a karmayogin . |
| 8 | Yeah , th th th the guy thought it was erm spot killer circuit fault but it 's not a monitor fault . |
| 9 | It 's not quite like Domestos by mouth but it 's not far short . |
| 10 | The procedure is particularly apt if there is a risk that the goods may be destroyed or disposed of before trial of the action but it is not confined to such situations . |
| 11 | Yeah it 's it 's actually it 's not too bad it 's a bit misty it 's a bid hazy erm slight wind but it 's not bad . |
| 12 | If your hair looks much straighter and flatter than usual the conditioner is either too heavy for your particular type of hair type or it is not washed out properly . |
| 13 | Racing against other horses is an entirely different thing from riding horses in their work and it is not always the ones who work the best that are necessarily the winners . |
| 14 | I mean yes of course we should live harmoniously together er who would y'know , sector of those people who have taken advantage of the right to buy and and so on and so forth but we talking about housing management in about housing management costs and if you have an estate of y'know being repaired similar houses which a lot of our estates are , it makes sense that they 're managed as it were centrally er and because that 's the most efficient way of doing it erm if you have a variety of different landlords in er one estate or one street and all the houses are similar , when it comes to things like modernisation and so forth it it 's duplicated a great deal of er er er of work and it is not cost efficient and it does n't make any common sense at all . |
| 15 | This is my own work and it is not a copy or near copy of anything I have read or heard . |
| 16 | There 're are complicated members of the terror act and it 's not an entirely frivolous suggesting because if you have any doubts that the performance of this County Council in it 's for duty to maintain the rights of way network to a standard appropriate for the traffic , then go and look even at a small part of John 's film . |
| 17 | Because I I I 've said this to him before on on the floor of the house , that is what we are required to do in the insurance brokers registration council for all insurance broking firms , that is what parliament required in the insurance brokers registration act and it is not an onerous requirement on firms , it is not excessively expensive so it would meet I believe , any cost compliance test er that erm the er the D T I might wish to insist be carried out . |
| 18 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 19 | It is common for old people to play down the extent of the abuse and it is not easy to gauge how far their reluctance to discuss alternative care is due to fear of the unknown rather than acceptance of the situation . |
| 20 | Custody of the share certificate is regarded as the essential protection of the lender and it is not clear precisely how continuation of this popular method of providing security will be practicable in relation to uncertificated listed securities on the introduction of TAURUS — short of repealing section 360 of the Act and requiring ‘ account operators ’ to note equitable interests . |
| 21 | Erm yes , Mr Chairman I should like to apologise to Bob for interrupting him then because er the enthusiasm about the green code business of course has to do with the Hatfield community project and is not initiated by Welwyn Hatfield when in the use er Herts County Council Paul in the community project , but nevertheless the green cone idea is the individual person , it 's not the District Council and it 's not somebody else taking a taking green erm green type away for composting . |
| 22 | Electron microscopy may improve identification but it is not widely available , is expensive , and is limited by the need for specially fixed tissues when generally only formalin fixed tissues are available . |
| 23 | We usually have a sign near the main till but it 's not here today . ’ |
| 24 | Directives are based on Roman law whereby absolute duties are set out in the law but it is not vigorously enforced . |
| 25 | The theory of communicative action is perhaps the crucial and radical component in Habermas 's work but it is not a discrete theory ; it develops in response to a number of problems both theoretical and empirical raised in a variety of contexts . |
| 26 | It 's a bit of a mess but it 's not totally destroyed . |
| 27 | Erm , I mean there 's a forest outside our window but it 's not visible is it ? |
| 28 | No , I mean he 's got things that er he 's got er CDs and things in the window but it 's not erm |
| 29 | I mean Louis seems to be really sort of like a different cat but it 's not |
| 30 | I have always longed to be a great lady but it 's not easy when you spend your time queuing for slug-pellets and flea-powder . |