Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be not [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because there is n't a grant or there is n't whatever it is and you know and , and how you actually manage to er cope with that yourself . |
| 2 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |
| 3 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 4 | So , it was out at last , and it was not what she 'd expected . |
| 5 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 6 | He said : ‘ There is no doubt that they have to consider the possibility of closing the fund , but his is not what they want to do . |
| 7 | But there was n't what you 'd call an organized sports group . |
| 8 | So far this year our revenues are ahead and still healthy , but they are not what we expected . |
| 9 | The latter is a desirable by-product , but it is not what the game should be about . |
| 10 | But it is not what counts finally . |
| 11 | Lower inflation may please economists and be an index of an improving trend , but it is not what most people want . |
| 12 | ‘ A he — but it 's not what you 're thinking . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’ |
| 14 | But it 's not what you think , you see . |
| 15 | Says 15-year-old David Stokes : ‘ There are quite a few boys who just have to have a girlfriend , but it 's not what we all feel . |
| 16 | That 's what brought us together , but it 's not what keeps us together . |
| 17 | " But it 's not what I want to be . |
| 18 | Well of course I do know that the , the only answer to it , of course , is for the christian way but it 's not what it , that 's going to happen . |
| 19 | But it 's not what I came for . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This information is indeed worth treasuring , but it 's not what most people imagine when they think about wrecks . |
| 21 | But it 's not what it seems . |
| 22 | The girls enjoy it , but it 's not what she 's used to.t |
| 23 | It 's important for me to understand my heritage and culture , but it 's not what I want to go ramming down everybody 's throats . |
| 24 | He had a large place , with as many modern conveniences as a sandhole like Dead Rat could offer , but it was n't what someone with his skills could rate in a PZ . |
| 25 | He did n't always express himself perfectly , he would be the first to admit that , but it was n't what you said , it was the way you said it . |
| 26 | But it was n't what I was asking , so I 'm going to give you the points , but it 's absolutely true . |
| 27 | She whimpered and he gentled the kiss , but it was n't what she wanted . |
| 28 | But it was not what she had come to him to do . |
| 29 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |