Example sentences of "[adv] [be] not [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We basically are not special people , although some of us do have special skills . |
| 2 | It 's a very effective direct piece of lobbying and at a time when a lot of people who obviously were n't Green Party supporters behind the campaign . |
| 3 | Erm , there obviously is n't enough supervision by the contractors of the people they employ . |
| 4 | A democratic constitution , not supported by democratic institutions in detail , but confined to the central government , not only is not political freedom , but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse , carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination . |
| 5 | Then a ripple of information came down the queue to say that we had been ordered back to the station because there obviously was n't sufficient bus capacity . |
| 6 | The simple truth is that in public buildings , in the streets ( and even in the House of Commons ) , there just are n't enough women 's loos to go around and this begs the equally simple question : why ? |
| 7 | ‘ One problem with having two career paths happily bubbling along is that there just are n't enough hours in the day a lot of the time . |
| 8 | There just are n't enough policemen and warders to feed them and so on . |
| 9 | Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just are n't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum . |
| 10 | Because the people we produced just were n't any good any more . |
| 11 | I mean there just were n't enough species extinctions to enable you to produce that number of changes and a number of independent traits in that length of time . |
| 12 | The fact that the active edge in the Rule above is not modified means that , in principle , all interpretations will be found regardless of the order in which operations are carried out . |
| 13 | This was quite difficult as there just was n't much Party policy . |
| 14 | Number 10 just was n't that place , and she did n't mind who heard her say so . |
| 15 | ‘ People were very keen to see us make an arrest but there just was n't enough information . ’ |
| 16 | Her other children did n't like me , I suppose there just was n't enough room . |
| 17 | This just was n't any fun . |
| 18 | There just was n't any work , even for someone with his track record . |
| 19 | President Daniel Ortega met the teachers but said there just was not enough money to pay them more . |
| 20 | There still are n't many women in the judiciary , so everything they do tends to get scrutinized by their male colleagues , and not only those on the Right , I 'm afraid to say . |
| 21 | When you attend a feminist group or meeting , you soon learn that interruption , talking too much , raising your voice , vehemently disagreeing with others , expressing hostility and so forth are not acceptable behaviour . |
| 22 | There still is n't any heat up there ; we 're freezing to death and we ca n't see to play this absurd game . |
| 23 | ‘ Saving our skins , ’ she said holding fast to the plans that begged to be told , because there still was n't enough time . |
| 24 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 25 | Enya and the Ryans , clearly are not unhappy people , having in fact , every right to feel fulfilled were they that naive . |
| 26 | I mean , I mean there are er there are , I mean they probably I think a lot of them probably are not social work qualified . |
| 27 | In a true dilemma there probably is not much point in agonizing over which route to take . |
| 28 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 29 | Those really are not any part of my true self either , tells us . |
| 30 | Shand is not unlike John Heard 's crippled alcoholic in Cutter 's Way , the year 's other stand-out movie , raging against the dying light , fulminating at forces beyond his control . |