Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] not [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 and it 's not on a bike either
2 I think about the milk this morning , how it froze and it was n't in a fridge or nothing .
3 But it is not about a pair of pure silk knickers at a cost that would keep a Sudanese village in staple meals for a month , rather it is sporting cotton , and giving the rest of the money to Oxfam .
4 In his failure to sound the horn in time there is tragedy , but it is not of a very complicated kind .
5 Disciplinary research has a role , but it is not as a purveyor of solutions .
6 ‘ I 'm all right as long as I know where things are going , but it 's not on a par with planning a legal argument . ’
7 I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or
8 Before you accuse me of being a spoilsport I think there 's a place for water-skiing , but it 's not in a National Park .
9 he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ?
10 But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved .
11 The income of Henry Tudor was perhaps three times that of Henry VI in 1433 , but it was not of an order of magnitude greatly different from that of the richer medieval kings .
12 One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet .
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