Example sentences of "[pron] is [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That logical mind of yours is n't going to stand any nonsense , is it ?
2 Says Souness : ‘ I think you realise quite quickly if someone is not suited to playing for you or your club then you do what you have to do . ’
3 If he feels someone is not applying themselves 100 per cent , he wo n't spare reputations or ego — whoever you are .
4 Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) .
5 Morrissey fronts a youthful revolution which is n't locked in tribal chant nor the blank idealism of the sixties .
6 Which is n't to say that Mr Hall 's novel idea is necessarily the whole idea .
7 ( Which is n't to say there are n't other reasons . )
8 I 'm much less aggressive , which is n't to say I do n't have a strong ego … ’
9 and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues .
10 Which is n't to say that a particularly bad beer will be bought by any consumer , just because the brewer supported a cherished cause .
11 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 ) .
12 I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system .
13 I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis .
14 It does n't have to happen but it is a disease which is n't noticed until too late .
15 Because I think , approves the use of a hundred and eighty thousand pounds of our carry forwards , contingency figure , which is n't receipted in five , six , and six , seven , that the variation in five , six , before the home closure savings come fully on-stream , is in fact an increase of seven hundred and fifty four thousand , but dropping in ninety six , seven some five hundred and fifty eight thousand .
16 Steer them away from business jargon , which is n't understood by the public .
17 But Mr Tomlinson then had to build his own chassis for the tractor , another job which is n't done in an afternoon .
18 Some of this experimental technology will go into SAS release 6.09 , most will roll into version 7.0 , which is n't expected for a couple of years yet .
19 According to the government , it 's a figure which is n't expected to bear any relation to the minimum cost of living .
20 The children ca n't make wills cos in law they 're not of sound mind until they 're eighteen and adults so any will supposed to be made by somebody aged fifteen which is n't going to be a will .
21 In that case the , the white page which is n't numbered at the back of page three , is the revised estimate , and shows the variations as outlined there .
22 Which is n't to imply that flippancy is his stock-in-trade .
23 Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ?
24 Based on the idea of a cliche , an often repeated phrase is n't it oh it cost me an arm and a leg , erm which is n't meant to be taken literally .
25 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 .
26 Is there a single Escort , Allegro or Sierra the length and breadth of the land which is n't emblazoned with some message the driver is desperate to convey to fellow motorists ?
27 Anything which is n't identified beyond doubt , will go back to the man in whose house it was found .
28 What a pity there is n't something there to cure the sickness of a love which is n't returned .
29 He was a good six inches taller than me , which is n't saying that much , but a lot heavier , twice as wide and maybe ten years older .
30 She was taller than me , which is n't saying a lot .
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