Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 2 | A C.B. is a radio that people can talk to each other on rather like a telephone but it is not private as anyone who has a C.B. can listen in to your conversations . |
| 3 | If you have , for example , never been a telephone subscriber before ( that is , even if you have had communal use of a telephone but it was not in your name ) you will have to pay a new subscriber charge plus a connection charge . |
| 4 | It 's a bit of a mess but it 's not totally destroyed . |
| 5 | It seems a pity but it 's not for very long . |
| 6 | I 'm living with my sister ; she 's got a boy and a girl but it 's not the same . ’ |
| 7 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 8 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 9 | They both fall under the superordinate animal ( in the sense of ‘ creature ’ ) ; and It 's a dog and It 's not a dog have no necessary links with It 's a pet and It 's not a pet . |
| 10 | It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset . |
| 11 | No , I think that 's too much , I thought it was a quarter but it 's not . |
| 12 | That is a factor but it is not exclusive against the order . |
| 13 | Those with CCJs often have difficulty finding a lender willing to advance them a loan but it is not impossible . |
| 14 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 15 | General MacArthur did not regard the deployment of American troops in Korea as a priority and it was not until 8 September that the forces led by General John R. Hodge began the task of occupation . |
| 16 | They both fall under the superordinate animal ( in the sense of ‘ creature ’ ) ; and It 's a dog and It 's not a dog have no necessary links with It 's a pet and It 's not a pet . |
| 17 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 18 | CoHSE official Dave McNicholas , an intensive care staff nurse , said : ‘ This is a scandal and it 's not just our unit that 's affected by shortages but units across the country . |
| 19 | ( NOTE that for ‘ road ’ there must be a line of communication which can be described as a road and it is not sufficient merely to show vehicles have access , e.g. to a car-park ) ; and |
| 20 | This seems a paradox but it is not : the system is geared to the needs of the operating units but the units are expendable so long as the system remains intact . |
| 21 | Cos ca n't use that doing that , well you can use a a ruler but it 's not very easy . |
| 22 | Payment can be postponed for a year and it is not clear yet how inflation will be taken into account and whether the price will be paid in roubles or in hard currency . |
| 23 | What I would wish to make absolutely clear is I do n't believe that in the context of a liberal democracy that is even remotely a possibil it 's a possibility but it 's not an acceptable solution . |
| 24 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 25 | Whether they have too much or what they have but , I mean they 're just they just think everybody owes them something , and it 's like Neil , I mean , to me I mean I ca n't see why he ca n't get off his backside and go and work in a supermarket but it 's not the job they want , the same answer I said |
| 26 | She adds : ‘ I would like to have a boyfriend but it is not the most important thing right now . |