Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] is [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the wise men say it is not painting , some of them say it is . |
| 2 | In the book , author Suzi Leather says it is not ignorance that forces many families to cut their food bills , but the impossibility of paying for all essentials out of ‘ woefully inadequate ’ state benefits . |
| 3 | Sergeant Davis said , unemotionally , ‘ The mother says it is not Ephraim . |
| 4 | and er me dad says ooh it 's a video recorder and he , I says no it is n't , he says it is , it 's a video recorder , I says it is n't dad , I said Christ I bloody bought it |
| 5 | What fires them is n't ambition but a sense of bitterness . |
| 6 | Shivering through to my wrists and nipples , I know it is not jet lag . |
| 7 | Remember it is not TV |
| 8 | The first value is collected from the look-up table and stored in location DELAY , which is checked to ensure it is not zero , because a zero value indicates that the end of the table has been reached . |
| 9 | They use a business language that is so predictable and going out and doing it is not part of the course . |
| 10 | Most water in fuel , assuming it is not rainwater getting in , is caused by condensation formed on the inside of the tank . |
| 11 | What experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but the ideas which form the material basis for knowledge . |
| 12 | We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas . |
| 13 | Though I do n't know why you think he 's so important , now we 've discovered he is n't R. Just because he was Puddephat 's tutee , it does n't mean he knew him terribly well . |
| 14 | ‘ If by the other , my lady , you refer to the regard the prince and I have for each other , pray be assured it is not pain I feel — but joy , deep joy . |
| 15 | Somehow the salmonella knows it is not E. coli even though it would not require many mutations for it to become E. coli , or the reverse . |
| 16 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |