Example sentences of "it is [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C does know who borrowed it ( it is not B ) — but is frightened of being bullied if s/he says anything about it . |
| 2 | ‘ Property therefore means belonging to a tribe , ’ [ p. 90 ] and even then it is not land which is property with pastoralists . |
| 3 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |
| 4 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 6 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 7 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
| 8 | It is not Nizan 's allegiance to communism which must be interpreted in the light of his resignation from the party . |
| 9 | It is not drugs as such that act as responsible agents for the collapse of well-being in the society and the proceeding crime , but the human desire for drugs . |
| 10 | If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ? |
| 11 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |
| 12 | It is not kind of you . ’ |
| 13 | Mitchell adds , ‘ Bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ ( p. 308 , her emphasis ) . |
| 14 | But conversely , as I have already remarked , when Juliet Mitchell insists that ‘ bisexuality is a movement across a line , it is not androgyny ’ , she also leaves too much of sexual difference in place . |
| 15 | The text of Gloriana is finely literate , but it is not literature . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not industrialisation per se that creates underemployment and marginalisation , but an industrial finance capitalism and advanced technology ( intensive in capital ) which does not permit fundamental changes in the economic structure . ’ |
| 17 | Most water in fuel , assuming it is not rainwater getting in , is caused by condensation formed on the inside of the tank . |
| 18 | Can I remind you that it is a draft , and it is a consultation draft , it is not Government policy . |
| 19 | It is not Government policy that all land everywhere should be subject to special constraint . |
| 20 | But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem . |
| 21 | Remember it is not TV |
| 22 | It is not meditation , it is just a cleansing , a putting into order . |
| 23 | It is not fiction , nor is it conventional autobiography , which tends to say what the author wishes us to know . |
| 24 | Accordingly , it is not modesty to say , ‘ I hope I am a Christian , but I can not say more . ’ |
| 25 | On the other hand it is not chaos , and within the context of this essay it is regarded as asymmetry … a balance of dissimilar forces . |
| 26 | What is significant , however , is that it is not Peter , but Jesus 's brother James who presides over the ‘ Church ’ in Jerusalem . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . ) |
| 28 | The Getter is a component added to control out-gassing , but it is not 100% effective . |
| 29 | This information has been taken from the Advance Data Capture file and whilst it is not 100% correct I hope it will suffice for your purposes . |
| 30 | I wave and clap at the crowd , blow kisses at them and bow , it is not theatricality but very genuine feeling . |