Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I not a dryad ? |
| 2 | ‘ Am I not the wife of a great prince ? ’ |
| 3 | Are you not a friend of Roy Dunlop 's and were we not all together once in Vancouver ? ’ |
| 4 | Are you not a bowman ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you bleed me — are you not a prick ? ’ |
| 6 | " Are you or are you not a homosexual , Gordon ? " |
| 7 | ‘ And are my eyes deceiving me or are you not the girl who ruined the broomstick display last year ? |
| 8 | Are you not the mother who , like a hen , gathers her children under her wings ? … |
| 9 | This is notoriously difficult to do but the difficulty should be yours not the client 's . |
| 10 | Such a stand might look principled , were it not a sham . |
| 11 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 12 | Is there not a question in there , unless I 'm going , er does it ask you er alright you can talk fast something like that |
| 13 | One , is there not a way in which your good tool could be perverted , and two , since this tool must inevitably be given into the hands of the people you despise for their aggressiveness and bad inheritance and rearing , how do you expect them to use it ? |
| 14 | If there is a faculty of science and one of applied science why is there not a faculty of applied social science as well as a faculty of social science ? |
| 15 | Is there not a time-scale |
| 16 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 17 | Is there not a case for an entirely new agenda of constitutional talks , involving all elected representatives of both north and south , to agree a solution to this crisis ? |
| 18 | Is there not a case for the EC to reassure both sides that they can live in peace if the troops go ? |
| 19 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 20 | Is there not a book of angling knots ? |
| 21 | But is there not a contradiction between being so fiercely hostile to relativism in history and aesthetics and at the same time asserting that there are no objective criteria for deciding whether a work is good or bad ? |
| 22 | Although we are a parliamentary democracy and would expect to take nearly every final decision in this place , is there not a body of respectable constitutional opinion that says that , if we propose to transfer the democratic accountability from a Westminster Parliament to an unelected European Commission , or even an elected European Parliament , the British people are entitled to take a view on the matter ? |
| 23 | But is there not a distinction to be made between the role of the unions in Labour 's internal democracy , and their role in society ? |
| 24 | Is there not a rumour that if they all dress in grey and follow the Prime Minister 's example , they can all ride in a special railway carriage without a typist in sight ? |
| 25 | Since many of the products , and most of the drugs , emerge from economies fuelled by intense competition , is there not a danger of mere frivolous novelties or wasteful duplication , all of which will nonetheless require testing ? |
| 26 | But is there not a danger that , at 14 , their choice would perpetuate class divisions — ‘ I am a professional , you 're good with your hands , she should work in a shop ’ ? |
| 27 | I am grateful to the Minister , but is there not a danger that there could be an unfair distribution of funding research between the new universities , which will be formed from polytechnics , and the traditional universities ? |
| 28 | Is there not a danger that modern cases go on too long and cover too wide an area ? |
| 29 | My Lords is there not a danger at looking at er accident and emergency departments in isolation from the rest of the hospital . |
| 30 | Is is is is there not an element that hinges round orally to do with the |