Example sentences of "'s not [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not about proving it ; it 's a moral question . ’ |
| 2 | No , it 's not about taking chances in the commodities market but rather a kind of theatre of concern about human potential in our era of heightened environmental concern . |
| 3 | So having introduced the idea that I S O Nine Thousand is about improving our management competence , it 's not about improving our technical competence , we are technically very good . |
| 4 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not about diving into the murky depths in search of treasure — that is just the impression we want to get away from ’ , insists Noel Fojut , Historic Scotland 's Principal Inspector responsible for underwater archaeology . |
| 6 | He 's not above stealing a few of her mature cheeses and selling them . |
| 7 | But he 's not above making furtive preparations for the worst . |
| 8 | This lady 's not for shouting down . ’ |
| 9 | The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ . |
| 10 | He was shaking with nerves when he did the most critical audition of his career — for John Gielgud and The Lady 's Not For Burning — and yet he forced himself through it . |
| 11 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 12 | At the 1 980 Tory Party Conference she pronounced stubbornly that ‘ the lady 's not for turning ’ . |
| 13 | Statements such as ‘ The Lady 's not for turning ’ and ‘ Are we going to go back ? |
| 14 | ‘ Unfortunately , just like Mrs Thatcher , he 's not for turning , which is the biggest problem of all . |
| 15 | THE campaign for keeping open Rosyth Dockyard is all very laudable as long as it 's not for servicing nuclear submarines . |
| 16 | She 's not for marrying , this one . ’ |
| 17 | The lady 's not for returning |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not worth risking . |
| 19 | No , it 's not worth watching ! |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not worth considering , ’ she said . |
| 21 | An aspect of the problem related to ignorance is that of apathy in the sense that a person says ‘ it 's not worth pursuing it ’ or ‘ let's just forget about it ’ or ‘ it 's just one of those things . ’ |
| 22 | Now , quarter past seven , it 's not worth taping the rest of it |
| 23 | If you have n't got one , it 's not worth proceeding . |
| 24 | It 's not worth investing in that foundry . ’ |
| 25 | If , in defence of your own attitudes , you do n't wish to examine them and believe that they are fixed , it 's not worth exposing yourself and listening to anything that might make you think differently . |
| 26 | You do n't know , but it 's not worth taking the risk of , you know , being wrong . |
| 27 | It 's not worth looking on the box for the news because it 's , they 'll be nothing new . |
| 28 | It 's not worth cooking for one . ’ |
| 29 | Now I do n't wan na , want me to prattle on much more tonight , if it 's not worth speaking about , I think it 's probably about enough |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not worth trying a surprise raid ? ’ |