Example sentences of "[coord] it [is] not [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 2 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 3 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 4 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 5 | Men have a name for girls like you , and it 's not flattering — ’ |
| 6 | if they alter your round , er and it 's not collecting as much |
| 7 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 8 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 9 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 10 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
| 11 | she 'll not have much of an appetite , because that bit 's not working properly , and it 's not getting a chance to go through her |
| 12 | so , so it 's not gon na be there , and unfortunately it 's going to take a while , because we 're in such a deep recession and recession is bad , and it 's not getting any better |
| 13 | And it 's not taking you as much time either . |
| 14 | And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … . |
| 15 | If it 's man and wife arguing , or man , female arguing , and they 're the only two in this place , and I 'm satisfied that it 's gon na be quiet , and there 's no injuries to each other and it 's not gon na flare up , then that 's a domestic , that you can be quite happy with . |
| 16 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 17 | And it 's not gon na be before April . |
| 18 | And it 's not gon na cost anything so the |
| 19 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 20 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |
| 21 | And it 's not going to do it . |
| 22 | It 's not gone through the post and arrived battered , torn or creased ; and it 's not going to be just plumped down in piles on the floor . |
| 23 | We regret this and it 's not going to happen again . ’ |
| 24 | And it 's not going to be difficult and at the end of the day , someone is going to have to I suspect , and it would have to be members initially erm who would do that , as far as we see it . |
| 25 | Well I know I mean it we 're struggling to get judges , are n't we , and it 's not going to get any better , it 's going |
| 26 | So , the fact that who works in the green grocers is just a bit of additional information , it 's not necessary for the the main part of the sentence , you can take it out and it 's not going to take , make any difference to the construction or the meaning of the sentence , it 's a bit of additional information . |
| 27 | It was a unique happening to find thirteen acres of land together in the site and it 's not going to occur again . |
| 28 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 29 | And it 's not going to , I mean John is right , it , the T G I one that Jenny writes , what is , it will not cover the other continuous jobs . |
| 30 | They 're both because , the other one 's got a fault in it and it 's not working properly |