Example sentences of "[ex0] [is] [indef pn] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something not right about the way he goes on with her . |
| 2 | The men stared silently at each other , then one plucked up courage and said , ‘ There 's something not quite right down there , ’ pointing to the line of fish vans . |
| 3 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |
| 4 | There is one not far from Luxor . |
| 5 | I greatly fear that there is something not right about the man . ’ |
| 6 | And , finally , as destructive conflicts are usually about blatant power or win-lose situations there is something not quite nice about discussing power in research seminars or even in work organizations . |
| 7 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |