Example sentences of "it [be] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change is always hard but clearly is even harder if the reasons for it are not explained . |
| 2 | If the scope of the enabling Act is exceeded or the procedures set out in it are not followed , the secondary legislation thereby created is said to be ultra vires ( i.e. beyond the power given ) . |
| 3 | The glissando is so rapid that the repetitions of certain notes in it are not heard . |
| 4 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 5 | I did n't turn it on there , it were n't turned on at all . |
| 6 | Er , it were n't locked up again though were it ? |
| 7 | ‘ It were n't made to open easily . ’ |
| 8 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 9 | that it was only er a face up , it were n't to pull down and rebuild |
| 10 | ‘ We are , ’ he insisted , his grip on her wrist tightening , ‘ and I wish that it were n't happening — ’ |
| 11 | I repeat , I wish it were n't happening . |
| 12 | Some cat was climbing through a window and it were n't going . |
| 13 | It were n't running today . |
| 14 | Everybody knew it , they knew it too , but if it were n't told , it could lose its power to injure . |
| 15 | If it were not to do this , it would be no more than the futility of changing or avoiding the subject . |
| 16 | The treaty was based on fear of the ‘ dark terrors ’ of what might happen if it were not ratified . |
| 17 | For John Simon , it was ‘ so puny a play that if it were not extended in all directions by Dustin Hoffman 's life-giving performance , it would barely be discernible to the naked eye . |
| 18 | Parts of it were not raised with me before today 's debate . |
| 19 | If it were not given the Vendor would be liable for any breaches of warranty . |
| 20 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 21 | With that came a warning that if it were not paid within six months , he would serve three years extra . |
| 22 | This section ( 1 ) disqualifies persons in certain trades from acting in any way as a member of a board , ( 2 ) disqualifies a person holding a disqualifying interest in a company from taking part in proceedings in which the company is an applicant or an objector , ( 3 ) disqualifies an employee of a licence holder under the Act , and any person engaged in a business dealing with alcoholic liquor , including the directors , officers and employees of companies engaged in such businesses from acting as a member of a licensing board , ( 4 ) disqualifies a member of a board , who is the owner or tenant of premises , from acting in the granting of a certificate in respect of those premises , ( 5 ) makes it an offence to contravene the section , ( 6 ) declares , subject to the proviso ( that the grant of a new licence is not liable to objection on the ground that one or more of the members of the board who granted it were not qualified to act ) , anything done in contravention of the section void , and ( 7 ) exempts members of a committee to determine the distribution of licences in a new town from disqualification for being members of a board by reason of their membership of the committee . |
| 23 | Under 5.1(12) , however , the election of a board member is not vitiated by a technical defect in the proceedings which has not prejudiced other interested parties in the election , and , under s.2(6) , the grant of a new licence is not to be objected to on the ground that any of the members of the board granting it were not qualified to grant the licence . |
| 24 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 25 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 26 | Secondly , even if it were not missing , manual manipulation of large numbers of records is a very time consuming task , and hardly one that the recruitment team will have time to do during busy periods . |
| 27 | So within a fortnight of launching the competition , it appeared that two-thirds of it were not required , and the premiums had been offered without authority . |
| 28 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 29 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 30 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |