Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [not/n't] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it was n't a sadness that hurt , not an all-through one . |
| 2 | It 's a snake entails neither It 's a poisonous creature nor It 's not a poisonous creature ; likewise , It 's a poisonous creature is logically independent of It 's a snake . |
| 3 | He 's trying too hard to please and it 's not a nice sight . |
| 4 | ‘ It would take time starving to death and it 's not a dignified way of dying , ’ he said . |
| 5 | And it 's not a political division , either . |
| 6 | And it 's not a riot . |
| 7 | They both fall under the superordinate animal ( in the sense of ‘ creature ’ ) ; and It 's a dog and It 's not a dog have no necessary links with It 's a pet and It 's not a pet . |
| 8 | They both fall under the superordinate animal ( in the sense of ‘ creature ’ ) ; and It 's a dog and It 's not a dog have no necessary links with It 's a pet and It 's not a pet . |
| 9 | And it 's not a night for trouble . ’ |
| 10 | And it 's not a fine discriminator . |
| 11 | So you need all four an and it 's not a criticism to start with the N and the F. |
| 12 | ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same . |
| 13 | I imagine we 've got at least an hour before any more humans come , and it 's not a lot different to a truck . ’ |
| 14 | It 's the voice of the barman and it 's not a happy voice . |
| 15 | The vast majority of people , if you 've run any organization of any type , you will know very well people need leading , er and it 's not a matter of brainwashing , it 's explaining what is available , what are the possible goals . |
| 16 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 17 | Not another two years , I think that was the first of January ninety five , it 's actually one year , and it 's not a question of doing nothing about it . |
| 18 | But by and large that 's just a further clarification of some aspects and it 's not a quantum change of policy , all it did is collect together wholesalers of circulars etcetera er and and present them in a in a slightly er more concise way . |
| 19 | It is it 's more of a little story and it 's not a front page shocker which I think is what we said we 'd set out to write , a front page shocker okay so I think you 've got to think about the kind of words you use . |
| 20 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 21 | Now whether it 's a h because it 's a er a home name brand erm and it 's not a standard , it is brought to our attention , there may be something there . |
| 22 | And it 's not a negative number at all , it 's a positive number . |
| 23 | And some fi sine functions and it 's not a straight |
| 24 | and it 's not a pleasant it 's a very stressful business . |
| 25 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 26 | you know that s some do n't really have a great deal of problem , others really do have a sort of off work for two or three days every month and it 's not a bundle of laughs because , you know , that really must be difficult , but they , they get a rough idea of how it for them |
| 27 | It sounds like a very familiar name , ask him if erm ask him if er any of his relations went to Cheltenham Junior School cos there was a bloke with that surname at my school and it 's not a very |
| 28 | Cheltenham Junior School , the junior school at the college , and it 's not a very erm common name |
| 29 | It 's I know , it 's a place of your own , it 's your own and it 's not a big place to keep clean is it ? |
| 30 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |