Example sentences of "[vb -s] that it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 2 | There must be some gain to the citizen , however minimal , in living under a constitution which regularises the way in which power is exercised ; even where government is authoritarian , it matters that it is not arbitrary . |
| 3 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 4 | The variety of comment illustrates that it is not possible for outsiders to specify criteria of competent practice without indulging in prescriptive evaluation . |
| 5 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 6 | If the hon. Gentleman thinks that it is not , why does not he have the courage to stand up and say so ? |
| 7 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
| 8 | Though we threaten her with a headline reading ‘ Real Labour candidates do n't eat muesli ’ she insists that it 's not for her own consumption . |
| 9 | The government consultation paper insists that it is not gunning specifically for county or for district councils . |
| 10 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 11 | Page 30 of the Members ' Manual says that it is not ‘ appropriate for council stationery or postal facilities to be used to indicate the party allegiance of any member or group ’ . |
| 12 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 13 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 14 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 15 | The NRA simply says that it is not the practice in the industry to assign to any scheme the costs of economic disruption during its construction . |
| 16 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 17 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
| 18 | British Coal says that it is not worried by the change because these days it considers only projects which beat 8% by a decent margin . |
| 19 | Popek says that it 's not clear that WABI solves the critical question of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 20 | Popek says that it 's not clear that Wabi solves the critical problem of running Microsoft applications well enough . |
| 21 | Returning to the discussion of his own new Béatrice recording , Nelson says that it 's not just the playing and singing that are a source of pleasure to him . |
| 22 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 23 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 24 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 25 | First , he assumes that it is not correlated with permanent consumption . |
| 26 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 27 | do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference . |
| 28 | The example of a tape recorder shows that it is not : the same machine can translate information in the form of sound waves in the air into patterns of magnetization on a tape , and vice versa . |
| 29 | Quite the contrary , all the evidence from experiments with mice , which have been intensively studied , shows that it is not even possible for the nucleus of a very early embryonic mouse cell to substitute for the egg nucleus . |
| 30 | However , a close examination of this work shows that it is not strictly ab initio , in that extrapolations are made from calculations performed on other molecules . |