Example sentences of "which [is] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you did get one , you 'd be permanently broke , which is n't quite what I had in mind . |
| 2 | For us , the traverse to the Fish niche required a linked series of skyhook moves ( which is n't easy when you 've only got one ) . |
| 3 | Speaking for himself , Svidrigailov says he is after the women , which is n't untrue but we know what it 's worth . |
| 4 | There 's no area which is n't open to us ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no area which is n't open to us . ’ |
| 6 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 7 | Which is n't to say that Mr Hall 's novel idea is necessarily the whole idea . |
| 8 | And if we have £400,000 in there which is n't really £400,000 , then the accounts do n't tell you what 's going on . ’ |
| 9 | Which is n't true ’ |
| 10 | There 's a melancholy air about him which is n't just the product of a day on the publicity circuit . |
| 11 | But Mr Tomlinson then had to build his own chassis for the tractor , another job which is n't done in an afternoon . |
| 12 | There are so many more , from the outlandish yellow A. flavum to the round-headed leek ( which is n't round-headed at all ) whose conical purple-red blooms appear in June . |
| 13 | You always make here an enormous pause which is n't shown — it 's falsification of a document . |
| 14 | Beethoven is very difficult because in the forte parts you don , t have something to lean against ; it 's always that the strings play tremolo or very fast , which is n't really the basis for a sound . |
| 15 | The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad . |
| 16 | ‘ Metaphysics ’ has been defined as the attempt by a blind man in a dark room to find a black hat which is n't there . |
| 17 | Morrissey fronts a youthful revolution which is n't locked in tribal chant nor the blank idealism of the sixties . |
| 18 | This is time which is n't like work time . |
| 19 | Sometimes we just look for something to do which is n't work or bringing the children up ( which is of course work , but without cash payment ) or sleeping or watching the TV or shopping . |
| 20 | There are a lot of people here in your position and we 've got to try and please everybody , which is n't an easy job in this place I can tell you . ’ |
| 21 | With Richter , one is left with the impression that there is not one single note ( whatever the rate at which it might emerge ) which is n't absolutely essential to the overall design , and there are pitifully few Liszt performances of which that can truthfully be said ! |
| 22 | The bad news for Labour is that the section of the party which is n't blaming Kinnock is blaming John Smith instead — both for an unnecessarily harsh tax programme and an unnecessarily timid attack on the Government 's economic record . |
| 23 | Home : Sunninghill Park , Windsor , which is n't quite one 's sort of thing to be honest , and Buck House , SW1 |
| 24 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 25 | The next booking is a course which is n't due to start until Friday . |
| 26 | He does n't like his children , so we have to keep them apart , which is n't a bad idea when you consider it . |
| 27 | But after about two hours the excess amount of insulin in the blood tends to have an effect which is n't at all helpful to the person seeking to control hunger and food intake . |
| 28 | They wanted it , which is n't unusual , and I said no , which is even less so . |
| 29 | But another thing I hear , which is n't necessarily solo work , but in a more orchestral sense , is roots and fifths . |
| 30 | ‘ Almost twenty years for Kiss now , which is n't bad going . |