Example sentences of "it [is] not [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah just something about it , it 's not getting done |
| 2 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 3 | You ca n't say that it 's not helping bring people to the Sugar shows but after one show I hope they 'll forget about everything else . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not trying to bite you , ’ said the imp . |
| 5 | It 's not trying to provide any answers . ’ |
| 6 | No it 's no it 's not beginning to recognize these things . |
| 7 | It 's not going to conduct enough , you want a better conductor . |
| 8 | It 's not blasphemous , it 's not going to upset people . |
| 9 | It 's not going to date . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 11 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |
| 12 | It 's not going to happen in my lifetime . ’ |
| 13 | I know that there will be people just waiting for me to be injured and say ‘ I told you so ’ but I am confident that , this time , it 's not going to happen . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Everybody 's saying that black comedy is the next big thing , because it 's something strong and different — but unless we do something ourselves , it 's not going to happen at all . ’ |
| 15 | One would like to think that it 's not going to happen here . |
| 16 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |
| 17 | You always think it 's not going to happen to me , I 'll be all right — but then you get handed the letter . |
| 18 | ‘ No , it seems evident that it 's not going to happen tonight unless your mood undergoes a drastic change . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not going to happen . ’ |
| 20 | We regret this and it 's not going to happen again . ’ |
| 21 | A framework allowing Iraq to pump and sell oil under strict controls [ see p. 38406 ] was approved by the UN sanctions committee on Oct. 15 , but rejected on Oct. 24 by the Iraqi Oil Minister Usamah Abd al-Razzaq Hummadi al-Hithi , who said that it was a scheme aimed at unseating the government and that " it 's not going to happen " . |
| 22 | This is a one-off game , it 's not going to happen to you again . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I know now that the way I 'm playing , if it 's not going to happen for me at Liverpool it 's going to happen at another Premier club . |
| 24 | ‘ I know now that the way I 'm playing , if it 's not going to happen for me at Liverpool it 's going to happen at another Premier League club . |
| 25 | otherwise it 's not going to hang |
| 26 | It 's not going to press you back in the seat on acceleration or break any speed records , but it 's far from sluggish — a 119mph top speed , in fact , and 0–62mph in 12.8 seconds . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not going to blow up on me , is it ? ’ |
| 28 | It could have been a lot worse , it 's not going to hold me up too much . |
| 29 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 30 | It 's not going to sink into the concrete , is it ? |