Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is although it does n't sound like her . |
| 2 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |
| 5 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 6 | What is good about the current production is that it does not seek to tilt the play either way : it allows us to decide where we stand . |
| 7 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 8 | The only difference between its policies and those of CND proper is that it does not campaign directly for Britain 's withdrawal from Nato . |
| 9 | Labour has the culture of a Utopian party ; the strength of the Conservative Party is that it does not . |
| 10 | The problem with this letter , apart from the fact that the only copy available is unsigned , is that it does not agree with the timescale of events . |
| 11 | An alternative line of defence offered by the National Bank for its failure to curb inflation ( EP , 10 November 1986 ) is that it does not have the power to prevent the money supply from growing faster than its planned rate . |
| 12 | The major advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the calculation of MNI , which at best is an unreliable estimate of the true numbers of individuals in a sample . |
| 13 | A further difficulty with s.92(1) ( d ) is that it does not apply to emissions from premises not used for a trade , business , manufacture or process . |
| 14 | One of the objections frequently made about CAI is that it does not permit student-student interaction . |
| 15 | When it comes to making practical use of this new technology , one of the important aspects of acoustic reflectivity is that it does not always paint the same picture as does light . |
| 16 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 17 | Although one of gold 's most prized qualities is that it does not tarnish easily , it deserves to be treated with respect . |
| 18 | Indeed , one of the attractions of Madeira is that it does not outwardly appear to be specifically geared to tourism . |
| 19 | It seems sometimes to be supposed that what is commendable about a communicative approach to language teaching is that it does not , as a structural approach does , have to get learners to puzzle their heads with grammar . |
| 20 | The outstanding feature of black parents ' relationship with their children 's sport is that it does not exist . |
| 21 | The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled . |
| 22 | A less elevated but similar claim was made by Eudes II in a letter written to King Robert : ‘ If it is a question of the nature of the benefice you gave me , the fact is that it does not come from your domain , but from the estates which come to me with your consent by hereditary right from my ancestors . ’ |
| 23 | The error in the phenomenological approach of Berger is that it does not allow him to see that one of the social processes which affects the success of some theories , in terms of their historical effects , is precisely the process of rational discussion and truth-testing which occurs in science . |
| 24 | A criticism of Fitzmaurice 's analysis is that it does not answer the crucial question of why such an objective regime should have any effect on third parties . |
| 25 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 26 | As Schwab ( 1964 ) has pointed out , one of the features of Plato 's scheme is that it does not primarily classify knowledge in terms of what it is of or about but in terms of its quality — its degrees of reality . |
| 27 | The answer is that it does not . |
| 28 | The winner 's benefit from responding appropriately to such a signal is that it does not risk injury by escalating the conflict into a real fight when it need not have done so . |
| 29 | And of course a familiar populist complaint about modernist fiction is that it does not communicate its meaning to the reader in a clear and comprehensible way . |
| 30 | The second is that it does not adequately take account of the sad fact of life that health authorities may on occasion find that they have too few resources , either human or material or both , to treat all the patients whom they would like to treat in the way in which they would like to treat them . |