Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [Wh adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the lower level of sounds , there is little difference between humans , dogs and cats — this is not where it counts , if you are a hunter of small rodents and birds . |
| 2 | That is not how it seemed to people in Ajdabiya or Kufra . |
| 3 | But this is not how it seemed to Richard . |
| 4 | This is not how it has always felt . |
| 5 | This is not how it appears in practice to the workers in the bureau . |
| 6 | When a man has cut down a bamboo it becomes a straight pole with a cylindrical hole down the middle , but that is not how it appears in the wild . |
| 7 | ‘ At which point an editor would say , that is not how it works . |
| 8 | But that 's not how it works . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's not how it looks . ’ |
| 10 | And he pulls out another container of peace and he gives it to somebody else , that is n't how it happens . |
| 11 | That is n't how it seems to Martin Dyer 's family . |
| 12 | This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war . |
| 13 | This was n't where it happened ; this was a backwater , too . |
| 14 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |