Example sentences of "[is] that i [vb base] not " in BNC.

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1 It 's that I do n't want it .
2 Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will .
3 The fact is that I have not needed a constant stream of young ferrets .
4 ‘ My difficulty is that I have n't spent 40 years as an umpire or whatever , and there is a tension between people like that and those like me .
5 I 'm anti clique and what I want to do is open every opportunity and every door , my hesitation in talking to you , is that I have n't figured out how to open all the doors . ’
6 She carried her sandwich over to join him , saying : ‘ My excuse for being down here is that I have n't a moment to spare .
7 ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’
8 The only thing that I 've just thought about actually is window wh in the me on the measurement side rather than anything else is that I have n't Because we 've just had those windows replaced , I have n't finished decorating around the top .
9 Well I you 'll forgive me the disadvantage , I 'm not trying to cop out , but the disadvantage of not having been immediately involved is that I have n't seen that quotation from Michael .
10 The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones .
11 The other thing erm is that I have n't got any leave .
12 Where I differ from Bourdieu is that I do not think that this important distinction leads inevitably to absolute aesthetic relativism .
13 If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance .
14 My main reason for not introducing elliptic integrals here ( you can though attempt Examples 3.9–3.11 if you wish to have some experience in handling them ) is that I do not want to burden your memory with new formulae , and besides , for cases of most practical interest ( the field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis ) eqn ( 3.56 ) may be integrated out , as will be presently seen .
15 It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days .
16 The other part of the problem is that I do not plan the talks for the winter meetings and the excursions very far ahead .
17 The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted .
18 My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) .
19 The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap .
20 ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works .
21 Marcus , now solemn , replied , ‘ One answer is that I do n't know what happened .
22 All I hope is that I do n't end up in an office again . ’
23 ‘ The only reason I do n't punch you , ’ I said , ‘ is that I do n't want to come down to your level . ’
24 ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more .
25 ‘ Nick , ’ he continued with a tone of wry honesty in his voice , ‘ there are some mighty clever people who say I could be President of the United States three years from now , but what no one seems to realise is that I do n't care about that .
26 The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives .
27 The difference between us is that I do n't like this boxing business — and he still loves it , even now .
28 My reservation is that I do n't think the game could sustain it .
29 But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer .
30 ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’
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