Example sentences of "it [is] not [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not tablets of stone which have been brought down from Mount Sinai forever to remain unalterable .
2 If it 's not jokes against themselves , then it 's arguments about the differences between West Indians and Africans , or debates about relative Britishness , or reminiscences about Jamaican family life .
3 It 's not terrorists in the normally accepted sense of the breed , ’ Tweed said grimly .
4 Most people who live in the street agree that it 's not children from their road who are the culprits .
5 But it is not policies on Europe which will decide Jim 's vote but the ability of party leaders to get the best deal for Britain from the Continent .
6 It is n't apples on the tree that the boys climbed the wall for at all — ’
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