Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 's not a " in BNC.
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1 | How many orchestral recordings do you own of , say , a typical Romantic Symphony , where the orchestral playing is truly watertight of ensemble , where there 's not a single moment when any one player or section is audibly ‘ out of sync ’ with the main ensemble ? |
2 | It 's either that or there 's not a lot about . |
3 | They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes . |
4 | I mean that 's the sort of thing if the press decides that somebody 's not a good thing , then that person is not a good thing and almost nothing he or she can do can change it . |
5 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
6 | The deputy editor of Which , Judith Gubby , although she 's not a banger fan herself , munched her way through two dozen different varieties , says you 'd be amazed at what 's inside . |
7 | She says that she 's not a mechanic , the items need a good home . |
8 | This would , in fact , make an ideal introduction to the works , were it not for the fact that the packaging completely misleads the purchaser as to the playing order of the music : it is listed as ( in order ) — but the disc actually plays , so that there 's not a single track which corresponds with the one listed in the sleeve note ! |
9 | It might seem that there 's not a lot to it . |
10 | I would argue that in the past we should be doing much more to encourage people to go to and from erm regional airports and I , I think that is important , they do need to be expanded , but a lot of the evidence erm er there 's stacks of evidence which is founded in sort of er exercise is er in fact that there 's not a lot of unreprimand , I mean , I wished that there were . |
11 | erm It may be that in certain places there 's so much pressure on land from the people that there 's not a lot they can do . |
12 | Although it 's not a shape that I would recommend for a large picture , it can look very attractive used to decorate cards and calendars . |
13 | But wh what they said to me was although erm although it 's not a driving is not a major part of and your role was changing and whatever that means |
14 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
15 | But it makes Trevor simply furious , although he 's not a person to show his rage . |
16 | It 's a snake entails neither It 's a poisonous creature nor It 's not a poisonous creature ; likewise , It 's a poisonous creature is logically independent of It 's a snake . |
17 | However , Debbie thinks that it 's not a good idea to pressurise children into playing an instrument too early . |
18 | For instance , if you 've got a problem that you 're keen to talk about and I rush in to reassure you that it 's not a problem , I dodge your agenda . |
19 | If it 's not an animal , then it follows that it 's not a dog . |
20 | exactly what it is , but th we should be told that it 's not a dirty thing , it 's not a bad thing . |
21 | Erm it is likely that it 's not a linear scale anyway . |
22 | I agree that it 's not a particularly easy life for most people to support . |
23 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
24 | He knows instinctively that it 's not a subject his father would want to talk about . |
25 | But I somehow feel that it 's not a sort of social occasion … ’ |
26 | Well I think I do n't think it 's all that It 's not a recent bungalow by the sounds of it cos he 's had to have new plumbing |
27 | And the fitness for purpose at the back of all this , indicates that it 's not a bad idea to talk to the client . |
28 | So that it 's not a matter which is weight to balance . |
29 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
30 | Er we have taken every possible precaution to make sure that it 's not a recipe for disaster . |