Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [not/n't] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I not a dryad ? |
| 2 | Are you not a friend of Roy Dunlop 's and were we not all together once in Vancouver ? ’ |
| 3 | Are you not a bowman ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you bleed me — are you not a prick ? ’ |
| 5 | " Are you or are you not a homosexual , Gordon ? " |
| 6 | Such a stand might look principled , were it not a sham . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Is there not a time-scale |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Is there not a case for the EC to reassure both sides that they can live in peace if the troops go ? |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Is there not a book of angling knots ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 ’ ? |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Is there not a danger that modern cases go on too long and cover too wide an area ? |
| 24 | My Lords is there not a danger at looking at er accident and emergency departments in isolation from the rest of the hospital . |
| 25 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 26 | You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you . |
| 27 | Is not that against the resolution of the House and its spirit , and is it not a reduction , not an increase , in the involvement of this national Parliament ? |
| 28 | Is that a problem , or is it not a problem ? |
| 29 | Is it not a possibility ? |
| 30 | In Edinburgh , as in Cardiff , is it not a case of pandering to the nationalistic element in the crowd who , albeit a vociferous minority , chose in former years to whistle and boo when the National Anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was the only anthem to be played ? |