Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] it [be] n't " in BNC.

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1 And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was
2 ‘ As far as the clothing is concerned , it 's all in the reports , but to save you time I can tell you more or less what we found and it is n't a great deal .
3 Either the place was worth searching or it was n't .
4 But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work .
5 The squash had an undertaste that I could n't identify but it was n't unpleasant and I happily drank it .
6 The operation , originally planned for early afternoon , was re-scheduled and it was n't until quarter to six that she returned to the ward , still feeling groggy from the anaesthetic .
7 People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that .
8 Harvey , on loan from Airdrie , revealed later : ‘ I told Trevor Anderson I would score and it was n't an idle boast .
9 you know but it was n't any misunderstanding either , he said something
10 he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ?
11 The effects of stimulation are ‘ all-or-none ’ : either a saccade is elicited or it is n't , and its size and direction are not related to the intensity or frequency of stimulation in the colliculus .
12 I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night .
13 cheque for a few thousand or something , that would have but it were n't .
14 He was never tightfisted but it was n't often he was that generous .
15 Were you there when you , ee , you talking about that , there were two mistakes on that one er er doorbell went and it was n't telephone , it should have been the telephone !
16 She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few .
17 There 's an assumption by some politicians that just because there is this immense change taking place in Eastern Europe , that this is victory for Western capitalism erm , I think there might be some of who might be a bit cautious about that victory and might believe that er there is still much that needs to be shared and understood and it is n't as simple as perhaps some political figures might suggest it could be .
18 But no , it was a certain type of tobacco but you 'd got to bring it ready-rubbed and er you know , it 's back to the Co-op you 'd go and it was n't very far .
19 Carpet company boss Richard Atherton said : ‘ I have apologised but it was n't really our fault .
20 If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts .
21 King was pushing him hard , telling him he was no good and such like , when to King 's surprise Smith started to answer back and no one ever did that , so things worsened and it was n't long before they started fighting , an alarming situation on a small cramped footplate .
22 ‘ I always did but it is n't easy , is it ?
23 On Wednesday night he did but it was n't Bangor wearing their usual strip … they are also Apoel Nicosia 's colours and it was the Cypriots who squeezed through 3-2 on aggregate .
24 We do need to be able to show forgiveness in all the things that we do but it is n't easy and Jesus devotion to is a great challenge to us as to just how far we can go .
25 ‘ Not really , because we wrote the songs before Phil left and it is n't our new drummer on the album , apart from one track ; it 's a mystery subscriber on the other tracks . ’
26 I think about the milk this morning , how it froze and it was n't in a fridge or nothing .
27 If indeed she had and it was n't just Feargal 's own assumptions .
28 ‘ She 's on the front line , ’ he said and it was n't meant to be enigmatic .
29 I know what you said but it is n't even dried yet .
30 ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength .
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