Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it be [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea .
2 ‘ I would n't be at Arsenal if it was n't for him .
3 We do n't want to accrue er interest even if it 's being expenses by B-Sky-B if it 's not going to actually be paid for many years , but to the extent that it 's er likely to turn into cash in the relatively near future , then I think we would erm think it 's now time to start addressing that issue and the result would be that we should probably erm accrue some reasonable and not very substantial amount of back-interest er in the current financial year .
4 The other argument is , of course , would anyone ever have heard of David if it was n't for Tony ?
5 judgement was in favour of Aston Villa and it was not until fifty years later that a fresh legal challenge over contract terms was made , by George Eastham against Newcastle United .
6 I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the potential causes of instability , but that was not the subject of our discussion last Friday and it was not discussed other than in the margins of the meeting .
7 Hawaii was of the United States but it was not in it .
8 The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ .
9 This studio replica of a painting in Cambridge , Mass. , which fooled no-one , is illustrated in Spinosa 's introductory essay as by Ribera although it is not in the catalogue proper .
10 It came back , like a pain , temporarily dulled by drugs , in the terrible early hours in Emily 's bed where he lay , awake and fretful , scourged by his conscience or his sense of preservation , or whatever it was he had so recklessly ignored , tensed for another screaming fit and wondering how he would explain to Brenda that it was n't his fault .
11 Neither Mrs Longhill nor Mrs Peterson understood what was wrong with Ruth and it was not until half-past five next morning , when the doctor at last arrived , that a name was put to it .
12 Your father and I would still be in Akmeyon if it was n't for your zeide .
13 In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 .
14 I did in December but it was not relative to any of the specifications it was simply to try and ascertain how long the contract was was still live , to find out get this guy
15 If you pay SSP when it is not due , you will have to make good any mistake .
16 Er it 's not Kenneth Clarke and it 's not Brian Clough and it 's not Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence .
17 It 's not Kenneth Clarke Brian Clough it 's not Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either .
18 Now it 's not John Major and it 's not Martin Brandon Bravo and it 's not the Sheriff although we 're thinking on the right lines there , and it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough and it certainly is n't Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either .
19 Er it 's not Kenneth Clarke and it 's not Brian Clough and it 's not Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence .
20 It 's er it 's not Brian Clough and it 's not Kenneth Clarke and it 's not D H Lawrence either .
21 It is n't my amplifier , as I have tried this with an SG and it was n't effected .
22 This could suggest a domestic crisis , for the Chronicle records immediately after that the aetheling , Ealdberht , whom Ine had exiled , went into Surrey and Sussex and it is not inconceivable that Ealdberht was either Ine 's son or the son of his brother , Ingild , who died in 718 , seeking recognition perhaps as Ine 's heir .
23 Old Harry ca n't stand Lillibet and it 's not hard to see why .
24 Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin .
25 I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens .
26 It 's only Matthew that it 's not .
27 It was in 1956 that Leigh-born Dorothy first joined the typing pool at the UKAEA and it was n't long before she was promoted as secretary to Jim Stewart , then Head of the Authority .
28 Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’
29 ‘ People talk about Newton Aycliffe but it 's not so bad , ’ he says .
30 You 're no the further we , you go away , the further you go away from Blackpool but it 's not at
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