Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] n't [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
2 | I mean was n't this , was n't this |
3 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
4 | Even what I imagined is n't true . |
5 | there 's no likelihood of getting the same sort of regime that we 've got which I know is n't democratic in that sense |
6 | Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public |
7 | And I go is n't that Eleni or something ? |
8 | ‘ I do n't carry a defibrillator because what I do is n't dangerous , like conventional allergy tests . ’ |
9 | What I write is n't natural . |
10 | The man you knifed was n't dead when I reached him . ’ |
11 | ‘ I tell you Zeinab is n't interested in compromise . ’ |
12 | Rather than , rather than face moving into Benefit where it is very fraught at times and in a situa , and coping with that as well as not knowing what you doing is n't nice . |
13 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
14 | WHAT WE GOT WAS N'T UNIFIED UNIX IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE |
15 | A lot of the food they eat is n't natural food , but in fact is synthetic organic food . |
16 | ‘ They should feel angry that the help they needed was n't available . ’ |
17 | ‘ Even the instruments they play are n't authentic — they 're modern fakes . |
18 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
19 | The few rooms he entered were n't any better . |
20 | Or rather , just keep quiet , I mean your dad waffles on so much anything he says is n't confidential or anything is it ? |
21 | ‘ But he 'll make sure the next wench he fancies is n't another man 's property . |
22 | How much it costs is n't important . |