Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] [adv] not " in BNC.

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1 DR ROBERT Answers Your Queries The big question this month is sound : it 's muffled ; it 's too directional ; it oscillates or it 's just not quite bluesy enough …
2 I doubt if it 's fashionable , and it 's probably not politically correct to espouse or approve of this kind of attitude these days .
3 And it 's just not on .
4 So , and it 's just not very good , it 's part of
5 And it 's just not like me , I 'd just be feeling tired all the time .
6 And it 's also not an unachievable figure , plus one a month net .
7 But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough .
8 The rest of the countryside is in effect erm a white area which tends which to me erm in a county context tends to convey the impression that er countryside issues do not matter across the rest of the countryside and that 's clearly not the intention of Government advice and it 's clearly not the intention behind the statutory of the structure plan which has a strong environmental basis .
9 And it 's perhaps not surprising that Hollywood has begun to repay the compliment .
10 The Sogna , which in Italian means ‘ let you dream ’ , will be built in very small numbers and it 's still not clear where the powerplant will come from .
11 Why do n't you put say another pad on top , more pressure , it 's still not working and you 've tried it again and it 's still not working
12 Sit up cos we 're lounging around and it 's still not time yet .
13 Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working !
14 ‘ No , no-one guessed that , and it 's certainly not one of my favourite songs .
15 ‘ The evidence shows that while it is swinging slowly , it 's still a long way from the centre and it 's certainly not swinging the other way . ’
16 And it 's certainly not available in sufficient detail for for all of the sectors to make a fair comparison and I think Mr has made this point in in when you 've questioned him a number of times today that the information is just not available or to hand to make to make that comparison .
17 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
18 I 've got a whole list of funny errors , some a bit too near the bone to repeat on the air , but they 're extremely funny , and it 's certainly not a good way of getting your application noticed by misspelling .
19 Well I was involved with these professionally , and they are a very high standard , and it 's certainly not going to solve our housing problem .
20 However , quieter deadspots and louder ‘ wolfnotes ’ are inherent to all wooden instruments , and it 's usually not a problem to adapt to them .
21 Erm chemically speaking , if you carry out a reaction which can produce an optically active compound , you would normally the recenate and then you have to separate by either chemical method or the physical method and it 's usually not very easy .
22 I have several friends and relatives who are in that position , two who have been left by a husband and it 's absolutely not ideal for a child but compensation can be made by a loving relationship with extended family .
23 Now , that may be very idealistic and it 's obviously not all retired or old people who 've got a lot of wisdom unless you want to tell their stories .
24 President and founder Bernard Liautaud , and director of UK operations , John Powell , hail from Oracle Corp , and it 's therefore not surprising the firm does most of its work at Oracle sites and with Oracle application developers .
25 President and founder , Bernard Liautaud , and director of UK operations , John Powell , hail from Oracle Corp , and it 's therefore not surprising the firm does most of its work at Oracle sites and with Oracle application developers .
26 Okay it 's easy if you know how to do it , it is obvious when you know how to do it but if you do n't know how to do it it 's not that easy and it 's definitely not obvious .
27 Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations .
28 For example , it is not clear how far the model of past family life with which recent trends are being compared , was really widespread in American society , and it is also not clear what criteria can legitimately be used to judge whether child-rearing patterns past and present are desirable or undesirable .
29 Many trailers are dangerous much above 80 k.p.h. ( 50 m.p.h. ) and it is just not worth taking any chances going much faster .
30 As you can imagine , she receives many requests of this nature , and it is simply not possible for her to respond positively to them all . ’
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