Example sentences of "n't [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been . |
| 2 | She 's been very happy with the children but I 've wondered once or twice if they were n't rather a strain on her . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd been careful not to tell her anything , but she was n't altogether a fool . |
| 4 | Yet it was n't altogether a lie . |
| 5 | It was n't obviously a particularly long discussion … you are dealing with a company of a modest size … . |
| 6 | ‘ That he is n't only a solicitor . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He was n't only an undertaker , was he ? ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , well we do n't so a lot of business with them , it 's more distribution than anybody else actually . |
| 9 | Before the eighteenth century , there was n't perhaps a National Anthem , there was n't such much of a er , national feeling , and so there was very little need to have a National Anthem . |
| 10 | This is n't necessarily a good thing . |
| 11 | Unlike their Mancunian rivals New Order , they were willing to prove that a sense of style was n't necessarily a barometer of blandness . |
| 12 | But top psychologist Maryon Tysoe insists that sex is n't necessarily a key factor in an age-gap relationship . |
| 13 | The second side-effect — and this is n't necessarily a criticism — was that I found this guitar absolutely unbearable to play unless it was as near perfectly in tune as possible . |
| 14 | Someone who 's brilliant on the cinema screen is n't necessarily a good talk show guest . |
| 15 | This is n't necessarily a good thing , but at least it gives you the opportunity to advance those big blocks of troops close to his army . |
| 16 | They are also probably " cleverer " , but this is n't necessarily a relevant consideration . |
| 17 | That is n't necessarily a bad thing . |
| 18 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 19 | It is that , it is n't necessarily an easy thing , because these , these innovators are seen as being undisciplined and unrealistic and you know , they have these airy- fairy ideas . |
| 20 | Well it do is n't necessarily an anagram is it ? |
| 21 | What 's so unusual about the Calibra is that it is n't merely a two-plus-two , it 's a full four-seater . |
| 22 | But for these hardy souls supporting Burnley is n't merely a pastime , it 's more a way of life . |
| 23 | Actually that is n't merely a cute neo-Magrittian paradox , a semantic variation on his Ceci n'est pas une pipe painting of a pipe , but a statement of fact . |
| 24 | It is n't merely a matter of training and qualifications , it 's a matter of religious commitment as well and most teachers nowadays take the view that to try and teach this subject without that religious commitment is sheer hypocrisy . |
| 25 | ‘ At least she is n't entirely a product of his imagination . |
| 26 | It was n't entirely an idle question since Wendy and Tom Witherington had two young children upon whom their bachelor uncle doted . |
| 27 | Churchill summed it up to Keynes after the two men had had a particularly difficult conversation about the matter : ‘ This is n't entirely an economic decision ; it 's a political decision . ’ |
| 28 | It is n't just a trick . |
| 29 | One of the production 's virtues was that , although it had TV stars , it was n't just a succession of tacky TV turns . |
| 30 | Hemming around the former 's minimal asymmetric couture with yards of decorative musing on fashion and identity , Wenders concludes that Yamamoto is n't just a designer but an author in cloth . |