Example sentences of "n't the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why did n't the first guest get the poisoned beef ? ’ |
| 2 | The next boat-train was to Ostend — a bit further north than I had anticipated travelling , but that was n't the problem . |
| 3 | ‘ Why could n't the police have helped you ? ’ |
| 4 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 5 | It was n't the sort of stuff that love stories are made of , to be honest . ’ |
| 6 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 7 | Without it she was cold , but simply had n't the energy or inclination to weave it into anything new and warm . |
| 8 | It was n't the way party dialogues were supposed to go . |
| 9 | Does n't the term suggest something like ‘ mental pictures ’ ? |
| 10 | ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . ) |
| 11 | It was n't the nuns , Harriet , who gave me my guilt , my conscience ( do you have a conscience , Harriet ? ) . |
| 12 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 13 | Well this is all very admirable , you might say , and is n't the climbing world just as helpful and welcoming to one newcomer as the next ? |
| 14 | Therefore , why ca n't the public have access . |
| 15 | It was n't the first such attack . |
| 16 | One could argue that digital technology is n't the only way to solve a particular circuit problem ; a nifty bit of design work with a couple of op-amps plus a few Rs and Cs can replace a complex digital filter system . |
| 17 | Many of the young people today have n't the first idea of what 's going on . ’ |
| 18 | They made out I was n't any good at arithmetic , which I was n't , but that was n't the reason . |
| 19 | But it was absolutely clear to me then that I had n't the political antennae , the political flair . |
| 20 | There is n't the transparent profile of original instruments , but Davies has encouraged an approximation to it . |
| 21 | And does n't the Bradford , Bingley & Dagenham have a convincing ring to it ? |
| 22 | She was n't the usual gouger element type . |
| 23 | This landlocked location is n't the first place you 'd think of for a diving school but the Diver Training College is proving to be very popular . |
| 24 | Rock is n't the art form of the chattering classes and only a minority of its practitioners have any expertise in elucidating a rigorous conceptual rationale for their work . |
| 25 | As a medium through which to secure your fame and fortune , even those publications for whom discovering new talent is an important role are n't the force they were . |
| 26 | It is n't the fault of the band . |
| 27 | The writer who is also a performer is n't the only one who gets help . |
| 28 | If you wanted some , that was n't the avenue to go down . |
| 29 | But this was n't the London most people think of . |
| 30 | Mine was n't the city of sophisticated , cosmopolitan life . |