Example sentences of "not [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not that it is n't a very worthwhile career , Peggy , ’ Mother Francis had said diplomatically . |
| 2 | Er er that that o o order , order , it 's a very good question er but I fear not that it is up to individual members themselves to exercise some restraint and to and to u order , order , and to use the procedures of this house properly and correctly and not to abuse them . |
| 3 | The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy . |
| 4 | Please pray that the German people will buy , read and live by the Bible ( not that it is only Germans who need to do that ! ) . |
| 5 | Thirdly there 's the old objection of participatory democracy that it simply takes up too much time and this is not a trivial objection , because the thought is not that it 's simply time-consuming , but because it 's so |
| 6 | It 's not that it 's not like I mean |
| 7 | OK then , I 'll put this in the bedroom then , not that it 's not really draughty |
| 8 | Not that it 's so very surprising . |
| 9 | Not that it 's that easy to shop for clothes , that 's why most disabled girls end up wearing what people have given them . |
| 10 | Not that it 's much anyway , but it 's , it 's , there is a difference , and there is this pride of getting there , being one of the first six to get there , and there is quite a lot of competition , I can assure you . |
| 11 | So considered as an action , Pooh 's observation will succeed if this belief of his is true : that is , if tasting what 's in the pot will in fact make Pooh believe it 's honey if it is honey , and believe it 's not if it 's not . |
| 12 | Well not if it 's not easy to get to . |
| 13 | Well not if it 's not designed for it . |
| 14 | ‘ Not if it 's very frightening . ’ |
| 15 | Not if it 's like it looked before . |
| 16 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 17 | ‘ Not till it 's all over , ’ Cowley said , looking out and up at Bodie . |
| 18 | The USSR copies the West simply because it is much cheaper and easier , not because it is inherently backward . |
| 19 | The simulated male orgasm has attracted very little attention by comparison with its female equivalent , not because it is n't as common , but because it 's in no one 's interest to publicize the fact . |
| 20 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
| 21 | The foetus may become handicapped not because it is genetically abnormal or have a metabolic defect , but because it contracts a disease or infection while in the womb . |
| 22 | It is clearly important that we understand the basic outlook of an individual , not because it is necessarily right , but because it determines the way that individual behaves . |
| 23 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 24 | I retain some of these feelings but know it 's because of indoctrination not because it 's necessarily true . |
| 25 | On this side , no that 's not because it 's only Yeah there is |
| 26 | I 've left the question of accessibility of the venue until last , not because it 's less important but because it 's one of the most important considerations and impinges on one of the most difficult tasks any event organiser has to face : getting the right number of the right people to come to it . |
| 27 | N not as it is today , beautiful green grass and we used to play er cricket , football , marbles er pitch card , ring tor , er duckie stone , and all that of course the village in those days was divided into two parts and if you lived over 's Hill you was a downtowner . |
| 28 | Cynthia Chase s tightly argued and richly suggestive ‘ Primary Narcissism and the Giving of Figure ’ repays close attention , for in it she makes a case for the significance of Kristeva 's work to an understanding of post-structuralist notions of the ‘ uncertain agency ’ of language , not as it is often misunderstood , as cavalier irresponsibility , but as the indication of the ‘ imperative of linking an ethical or political project with a critical epistemology ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 29 | It ai n't that it 's too noisy — it 's just , you know , like a dentist 's drill or summat — it , s a noise that makes you want to run away from it . |
| 30 | For example , to say of what is in fact honey that it is n't honey , or of what is n't honey that it is , is false ; whereas to say of what is honey that it is honey , or of what is n't that it is n't , is true . |