Example sentences of "[adv] but it [be] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't get , I would n't mind if it was bloody six o'clock but it was n't it was more like half past . |
| 2 | After all , we may be learning as we go along but it is n't long before we discover that not everybody has a sylph-like waist or arms that with a little stretch will trail along the floor ! |
| 3 | ‘ Now , you 're not to be cross with me , my dear , because I did n't come sooner , the truth is I wanted to come straight away but it was n't possible . |
| 4 | And how d' you get toast charred so that you 've got to scrape it off but it is n't burnt ? |
| 5 | ‘ I was stopped all right but it was n't as simple as poor McQuaid made out . |
| 6 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 7 | It was empty and all locked up but it was n't dead . |
| 8 | A comeback never really looked on : there was no giving up but it was n't going to be Swindon 's night . |
| 9 | I put the washing out but it is n't dried |
| 10 | Children still chase a ball there but it is n't the same . |
| 11 | You , you want to go straight across but it is n't straight across it 's sort of like that |
| 12 | ‘ If I could have got my nose in front again maybe I could have twisted it round but it was n't to be . ’ |
| 13 | It was true ; his headache had come back again but it was n't that bad , not as bad as he got them in term-time . |
| 14 | Well I hope so too but it was n't the whole object of the exercise . |