Example sentences of "[be] it [not/n't] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 2 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 3 | Is it not a telling comment on our times that to preach peace is to invite violence upon your person ? |
| 4 | Is it not a ridiculous situation when the motoring correspondent of The Times ( 30 Jan. ) describes how he intended travelling from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter of the price , despite sole occupancy of a largish estate car ? |
| 5 | Is it not a tidy state of affairs when the best that the 370-odd Tory Members can deliver in this place every Tuesday and Thursday and at other Question Times is a tirade of abuse about what Labour would do ? |
| 6 | Is it not a considerable tribute to our diplomacy that we were able to persuade our Community partners to allow us to gain an advantage over them ? |
| 7 | Is it not a British peculiarity , this combination of public prudery with extreme puriance , extreme interest in sex and devious at that , and which fills the newspapers whenever public events give them an opportunity . |
| 8 | Is it not a fitting monument to 13 years of shyster Tory Government ? |
| 9 | And is it not a true bill , now as in 1918 ? |
| 10 | Given the stark position on the streets of Northern Ireland , is it not the right hon. Gentleman 's responsibility to set a date for the reconvening of talks , so that they can begin where they ended ? |
| 11 | But is it not the only fair way to describe a policy that deceived so many people for so long ? |
| 12 | And is it not the best wood for coffins ? |
| 13 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 14 | Is it not the very catholicity of the Church which is in question ? |
| 15 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 16 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 17 | Was it not a drunken pedlar in a parson 's habit ? |
| 18 | Was it not a direct insult , an attempt to humiliate me ? |
| 19 | Was it not the third Wednesday ? |
| 20 | ‘ Was it not an instinctive reaction to break and see if you could help them , just in case you had to stop to do something about them ? ’ |