Example sentences of "it [is] not the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the time comes to close , this delicate balance between gleaming efficient machinery and the secret world of nature can relent the man made , now nature takes over , unfettered by schedules or the relentless hurry into the night shift , it creeps into the bare workings of the place and then it 's not the rest of the world within a world . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not the school , mother . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then what is it if it 's not the school ? ’ |
| 4 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
| 5 | they 're blaming er parents are blaming school teachers about the kids , now where I live kids are running around up to eleven o'clock at night sometimes , it 's not the teachers to blame it 's the parents |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the King . |
| 7 | But it seems it 's not the hair which offends , but where you grow it . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not the country ! ’ they protested . |
| 9 | Maybe it 's not the Jungle it 's the film . |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's not the kind of humour that transfers well to paper — try explaining Reeves 's hero , Tommy Cooper , in print . |
| 11 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not the kind of document you are going to get a dramatic reaction to ; you might say it 's more of a White Paper , ’ Ernst & Young 's Mort Meyerson told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 13 | There 's certainly a tribal vibe here , but it 's not the kind of ecstatic enlightenment and spiritual hedonism The Shamen are promoting . |
| 14 | Of course , it 's not the kind of thing that everyone would want to get involved in … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing that would influence you , of course , ’ says Caroline , ‘ but the prospects would be quite good . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 17 | It 's not the kind who inherit the earth , it 's the poor , the humble , and the meek . " |
| 18 | Though it 's not the kind of thing should be second nature to a kid . |
| 19 | It 's not the kind of book which you would find being written today , by psychologists , or anthropologists , or social scientists in general . |
| 20 | I 'll be able to learn from it , but it 's not the kind of draw I wanted . ’ |
| 21 | but it 's not the hexagon shaped one , it 's round and it 's got an orange lid on it and an orange side |
| 22 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |
| 23 | No , it 's not the supplier or even the choice of hardware which worries me . |
| 24 | It drains you completely and it 's not the cancer ; it is the drugs . |
| 25 | And that , tha , that 's the thing that makes me red , it 's not the cutting it 's when they just pull it apart and it like |
| 26 | Because I only ‘ ope it 's not the boozer . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know , it 's not the parents ' fault . |
| 28 | Oh it 's not the South Bank Show then . |
| 29 | Well it 's not the south is it ? |
| 30 | It 's not the union movement that 's lost the elections . |