Example sentences of "it not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it not normally possible to ripen wheat or barley on the uplands ? |
| 2 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 3 | trying to get something in something that wo n't go is it not underneath that tissues and all that |
| 4 | Transgressive reinscription : a turning back upon something and a perverting of it typically it not exclusively through inversion and displacement . |
| 5 | Bizat says he always jokes that he torched it not surprisingly , because much of the rehabilitation was made easier by the obligation to start from scratch , and the insurance produced £18.2 million . |
| 6 | It not infrequently happens that ambiguous readings are related in such a way that in certain contexts one reading entails the other . |
| 7 | It not infrequently happens that an exactly appropriate lexical partner that would complete a paradigmatic relationship is missing , but a lexical item exists , with virtually the required meaning , but of the wrong syntactic category . |
| 8 | Is it not yet another of the Secretary of State 's hot air balloons ? |
| 9 | But was it not partly the fault of tradesmen ? ’ |
| 10 | Is it not partly because men forget so soon ? |
| 11 | Furthermore , is it not overwhelmingly likely that there are other factors involved of which we know nothing , or which we simply overlook ? |
| 12 | Is it not both illogical and unreasonable to require a person who has lost self-control to ensure , none the less , that his response is not disproportionate ? |
| 13 | Was it not rather more |
| 14 | He cites ‘ the interest of scholarship and fair-mindedness ’ , which are as it happens rather grand terms , but is it not rather a matter of free speech than of insinuation or imprecation ? |
| 15 | Is it not rather a triumph actually to have Mr Swinton here ? ’ |
| 16 | You might feel , you perhaps did feel , is it not astonishingly self-centred , is it not even offensively self-centred , this concern with his own greatness , his own importance , what I am writing now , what I shall achieve . |
| 17 | Why then does it not eventually become an exact facsimile of that mother ? |
| 18 | Production might well rise but would it not most probably be high-cost ? |
| 19 | You might feel , you perhaps did feel , is it not astonishingly self-centred , is it not even offensively self-centred , this concern with his own greatness , his own importance , what I am writing now , what I shall achieve . |
| 20 | It is hard to estimate the effect of Parliament on the other sectors of British government , though its role is best understood by regarding it not primarily as a check on the executive but as one of the institutions through which the government operates . |
| 21 | Perhaps our account of the wizardry of energy juggling involved in the tunnelling process makes it not altogether implausible that a doubling of the height to be scaled could immensely increase the difficulty of the transaction . |
| 22 | If it is actionable to use unlawful means to drive away C 's prospective customers why should it not equally be actionable to use such means against a person who proposes to buy his house but has not yet signed a contract to do so ? |
| 23 | If it is insulting to suggest to a person that he is a homosexual , is it not equally insulting to suggest to a man that he is the sort of person who might be susceptible to solicitation in the streets by women ? |
| 24 | Is it not right that there would be a reversal of the excellent figures that my hon. Friend gave ? |
| 25 | In terms of that deterrent , is it not right that when a submarine is cruising anywhere in the world 's oceans , any potential aggressor who attacks the United Kingdom will stand the risk of unacceptable and devastating retaliation from us ? |
| 26 | If they are being fooled now by many other countries , is it not right that we must seek a strong , new , international non-proliferation treaty containing vigorous verification provisions backed by United Nations sanctions ? |
| 27 | Is it not simply the case that the underlying analysis becomes more complex because , before knowing whether it is beneficial to build or hold or divest , it is necessary to know the effects beyond the immediate SBU in question ? |
| 28 | Thirdly , it does not inspire confidence in her work to find it not simply going beyond the independent evidence we have , but often going against it . |
| 29 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |
| 30 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |