Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [is] [adv] not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And she 's certainly not a tiny tot . ’ |
| 2 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 3 | I 've got a whole list of funny errors , some a bit too near the bone to repeat on the air , but they 're extremely funny , and it 's certainly not a good way of getting your application noticed by misspelling . |
| 4 | However , quieter deadspots and louder ‘ wolfnotes ’ are inherent to all wooden instruments , and it 's usually not a problem to adapt to them . |
| 5 | At this stage , as Kristeva implies , an interest in , even a fascination with sex difference is very much a fact of our lives ; and it is certainly not a neutral fact . |
| 6 | Structural reform by itself , however , is unlikely to deliver the required change of direction and it is certainly not a substitute for the commitment of inside reformers to shape policy and practice . |
| 7 | This is not a diet to do in a hurry and it is certainly not a crash diet . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrats may have wasted their money on the personality cult of Paddy Ashdown , but he is certainly not a negative factor as far as the forgiving women of Richmond are concerned . |
| 9 | The technique of ‘ hunt the analogue ’ is a favourite one practised by palaeontologists , but it is certainly not a foolproof one , because there are many fossil animals that defy comparison with living organisms , and some analogues do not stand up to detailed scrutiny . |
| 10 | There 's good material in The Midas Touch , but it is certainly not a classic . |