Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] n't [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the
2 I mean was n't this , was n't this
3 In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway .
4 Even what I imagined is n't true .
5 there 's no likelihood of getting the same sort of regime that we 've got which I know is n't democratic in that sense
6 Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public
7 And I go is n't that Eleni or something ?
8 ‘ I do n't carry a defibrillator because what I do is n't dangerous , like conventional allergy tests . ’
9 What I write is n't natural .
10 The man you knifed was n't dead when I reached him . ’
11 ‘ I tell you Zeinab is n't interested in compromise . ’
12 Rather than , rather than face moving into Benefit where it is very fraught at times and in a situa , and coping with that as well as not knowing what you doing is n't nice .
13 These particular residents , the ones that live in the service road , are campaigning for the service road to be closed but not surprisingly the residents who live are n't keen on that er road closure because that would affect their use that route at other times other than the morning peak .
14 Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms .
15 WHAT WE GOT WAS N'T UNIFIED UNIX IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
16 A lot of the food they eat is n't natural food , but in fact is synthetic organic food .
17 ‘ They should feel angry that the help they needed was n't available . ’
18 ‘ Even the instruments they play are n't authentic — they 're modern fakes .
19 Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment .
20 The few rooms he entered were n't any better .
21 Or rather , just keep quiet , I mean your dad waffles on so much anything he says is n't confidential or anything is it ?
22 ‘ But he 'll make sure the next wench he fancies is n't another man 's property .
23 How much it costs is n't important .
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