Example sentences of "[not/n't] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 2 | Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman 's self-portrait , it is the portrait of an artist . |
| 3 | Of course , Irish clergy and laity are sometimes at the forefront of political religious change in other countries , and a lively Irish intellectuals ’ religion will continue : but whether or not it will eventually affect the structure of power is another matter . |
| 4 | Despite Hugh 's remarks about downgrading our skills and devaluing wood , we are as concerned as the professional ( possible more so ) about ‘ promoting wood … as something with its own intrinsic beauty ’ , since we can put our heart into the work without worrying about whether or not it will sell , let alone whether it will sell at an ‘ economic ’ price . |
| 5 | The demands include ingredients , place of brewing , date of bottling or racking , and whether or not it is cask or brewery conditioned , bottle conditioned or pasteurised . |
| 6 | All elections in two-party parliamentary systems are essentially about whether or not it is time for a change . |
| 7 | There is certainly room for a programme on coaching and basic skills , but Rugby Special is not it . |
| 8 | Considerable ambiguity arises when the appearances of the incident are such that it is uncertain whether or not it fits one of these types of abnormal situation . |
| 9 | Even so , donors have also used aid to pursue their selfinterest regardless of whether or not it was compatible with that of the recipient . |
| 10 | If this form of construction can not be identified from an inspection of voids in the roof surface made from the exterior , it may be possible to deduce whether or not it applies by noting the pattern of nails which have penetrated into the roof-space through the boarding . |
| 11 | But that 's not it . ’ |
| 12 | The cast is assembled , but more often than not it has nothing to say . |
| 13 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 14 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 15 | No , Kathleen thought , looking at herself in the mirror , at her own , pale face , no , she is not afraid , that is not it , Isabel has never known fear . |
| 16 | At Corinth St Paul found the phenomenon deeply divisive and productive of censoriousness ; he taught the Corinthian church that the authenticity of a gift of the Spirit should be tested by whether or not it contributed to love and edification of the community as a whole . |
| 17 | I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran . |
| 18 | It is a factor that Mr Crosby recognises : ‘ Tactics can win you these games , but more often than not it is whether the players have the experience and the bottle . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That 's not it at all . ’ |
| 20 | Increasingly as I examined the implications of primate studies for ourselves and tried to see some convincing link between baboons and men a voice began muttering in the back of my head ‘ Hey — that 's not it at all . ’ |
| 21 | This is all very much to the good but my inner voice keeps muttering ‘ That 's not it at all ’ — because studies of this kind never attempt to cross the boundary-line between behaviour and inner experience , and thus tend to side-track the issue I am raising here . |
| 22 | I have heard , though I ca n't say whether or not it 's true , that Winston Churchill is an admirer of his . ’ |
| 23 | Nobody asked any questions about whether or not it was safe . |
| 24 | Whether Ferndale Comprehensive has been over enthusiastic or not it does seem that one union at least seems to think that marketing is one of the deadliest of sins ! |
| 25 | Even when it is not it is often a good way of generating conventions . |
| 26 | If it was like that once , why can not it be so again , a land of peace and tranquillity ? |
| 27 | Corman naturally agreed with this assessment and is not saying whether or not it was the way he and Nicholson intended it . |
| 28 | But the results of Fig. 5.2 show that the degree of suppression evoked by a test stimulus does not depend upon whether or not it was appetitively reinforced during the first stage . |
| 29 | Was not it above the banality of revenge ? |
| 30 | In December 1963 it discussed whether or not it should contest the next local government elections but no decision was taken . |