Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on site selection , well that is not why I consult er H M I P I want their technical views . |
| 2 | Alan Hobart , Pyms Gallery , London ( specialist in Irish art ) : Irish art has a small following in America , but this is not why I think we have been invited . |
| 3 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 4 | Even as I say it I know this is not how I wish to spend the rest of the day . |
| 5 | This is not how I 'd imagined it , I thought ruefully . |
| 6 | This is not how I conceive of the situation in postclassical criminology . |
| 7 | But that is not how I worked . |
| 8 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 9 | Goddamn it , Mike , this is n't why I came back here . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , as a matter of fact that is n't why I came . |
| 11 | I have another query on the world women women 's erm work from Margaret who is n't here I do n't think this afternoon , and that was about erm you know the female test and the time taken for the results to come through . |
| 12 | Which is n't really I mean I do n't think |
| 13 | yeah end happy but , but not , I mean Foxy is n't really I mean do n't play do n't say any of this to Phil , would you ? |
| 14 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 15 | It is n't often I ask anything personal of you , now is it ? ’ |
| 16 | The other nights when he is n't in I go into the kitchen and I find something to do — I clear the cupboards out or something . |
| 17 | There 's the there 's the big one in York is n't there I mean that 's like number one in the land or number two in the land . |