Example sentences of "[ex0] [is] n't [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his conclusion is that there is n't such a thing as an aphrodisiac . |
| 2 | Was it sheer arrogance to insist , ‘ There is n't such a thing as Majorism ’ ? |
| 3 | ‘ Boom Boom ’ , the LP , differs from the last two parts of the John Lee comeback ( ‘ The Healer ’ and ‘ Mr Lucky ’ ) in that there is n't such a staggering amount of extras and celebrities blamming away in the background . |
| 4 | Yes but could they not be brainwashed if you like into thinking well there 's nothing much wrong there is n't such a thing as evil |
| 5 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 6 | There is n't such a thing . |
| 7 | There , the audience was very much divided as to its merits and there is n't much doubt that Comerford , certainly one of Ireland 's most distinctive and challenging film-makers , will probably always get that reaction . |
| 8 | There is n't much of a future , but one hell of a past . |
| 9 | ‘ There is n't much point in trying to grow a belt of trees across the desert , ’ Camilla Toulmin , the head of IIED 's Drylands Programme , told the author . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see there is n't much room . |
| 11 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 12 | ‘ Brussels is the future capital of Europe , it 's at the crossroads of Europe and there is n't much competition . ’ |
| 13 | There is n't much ( if anything ) left at the end of each month for any luxuries — like a night out or any new items of clothes — will always come first to make sure that he does n't miss out on anything . |
| 14 | It 's cold comfort , of course , when there is n't much of a market to have a share of . |
| 15 | There is n't much to add to what Mr. Kennedy wrote in your March issue except to agree with him . |
| 16 | Take a seat behind the wheel and there is n't much to get the pulses racing either . |
| 17 | Lastability 16% : ‘ Really there is n't much ’ . |
| 18 | There is n't much danger , but you should n't be out alone at night . |
| 19 | There is n't much difference in the flavour . |
| 20 | An officer at Scotland Yard 's Obscene Publications Squad tells me there is n't much interest in magazines these days : videos are where the action is . |
| 21 | There is n't much scope for skill here . ’ |
| 22 | There is n't much security in this business and the Firestone contract represented a lot to me . ’ |
| 23 | There is n't much I do n't know about chemical additives and mad cow disease . |
| 24 | Since the Chancellor is not playing with taxes there is n't much for the consumer . |
| 25 | You will appreciate there is n't much point in training a bird to do this if every time you enter a different environment or a stranger comes into view it becomes hysterical . |
| 26 | There is n't much body under the feathers , so it 's vulnerable to rain and damp , though the feathers are a good protection against the cold . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 28 | ‘ We have to talk and there is n't much time . |
| 29 | ‘ There is n't much loving in any of your kindnesses , Jane , ’ the middle-aged hero of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence ( 1965 ) complains to his daughter in a long , unanswered diatribe against the younger generation — a new race of adolescents capable , for the first time , of subduing the earth around them and thinking nothing of it : ‘ not much kindness , not even cruelty , really , in any of you . ’ |
| 30 | There is n't much you can do about this other than vengefully shoot up the sacrificial unit in your following turn . |