Example sentences of "'s not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he 's not off his food , that 's a good sign . |
| 2 | In the Greater York area which does n't have a current planning permission , and that 's not including a redundant hospital site of another ten hectares . |
| 3 | But then I 'll be told that it 's not about him at all , in that silly sense . |
| 4 | It 's not about hair or women being shameful , it 's about respect , about being sacred . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not about these young chaps in particular , it 's about bottom , ’ boomed McAlpine , who is being described as Neil Kinnock 's speechwriter after the Labour leader , in his resignation statement , quoted his article praising the contribution of the Tory tabloids to the election victory . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not about us . |
| 7 | The aim would be to help people ‘ who never find love , it 's not about casual sex . ’ |
| 8 | It 's not about real people , whereas Coronation Street is . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Obviously , it 's not about a pigeon , ’ Margaret decides , ‘ there 's definitely an urban theme to the album . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's not about proving it ; it 's a moral question . ’ |
| 12 | We spend most of our time trying to pretend it 's not about God at all . |
| 13 | As far as I 'm concerned , and I 've through the whole scene of infertility , motherhood is about responsibility and privilege , it 's not about rights , and it 's responsibility that lasts a lifetime and it 's tremendous privilege to be a mother ! |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not about me , is it ? |
| 15 | ‘ You 're just peeved that it 's not about your subject , that 's all . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not about marriage . |
| 17 | It 's not about events , but about characters and their discourse ’ ( 160 ) . |
| 18 | But of course it 's not about animals at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if it 's not about her death , what is it about ? ’ |
| 21 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's not about Alfred that I 'm here but another matter altogether . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's got ‘ Earth ’ in the title , it 's not about hunting but there is a fox , and I ca n't remember the publisher . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ And no , it 's not about my laundry . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , son , if it 's not about sex , how to convert your loft into a spare bedroom or a new diet guaranteed to lose ten pounds in two weeks , then this new magazine of yours wo n't sell . |
| 27 | We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |