Example sentences of "be n't [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are n't horses that would carry them , ’ muttered Caspar . |
| 2 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 3 | They were n't , you know they did n't , were n't girls that would er in those days know what they 're doing so much you know . |
| 4 | And it were n't Brian that sent it . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't charity that I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 6 | Running off with Jonathan 's pen might sound like a good joke but , as you probably noticed , it is n't Gowie that the others come and help , but Jonathan . |
| 7 | For example , to say of what is in fact honey that it is n't honey , or of what is n't honey that it is , is false ; whereas to say of what is honey that it is honey , or of what is n't that it is n't , is true . |
| 8 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 9 | cos it was n't Sunderland that he went to see when he got the ticket the last time . |
| 10 | But it was n't unprofessionalism that caused Finchie to behave so uncharacteristically . |
| 11 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 12 | It was n't Reyes that had Nelson worried , but Czech Martin Vrabel . |
| 13 | ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were . |
| 14 | It was n't Dave that took all those freebies , it was the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 15 | No , that was n't Heathlands that was Anglo Swiss . |
| 16 | It was n't vanity that had prompted her to freshen herself up . |
| 17 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 18 | But it was n't duty that took her from her bed creeping down the stairs . |
| 19 | And this man was n't Andrew that you went to see ? |
| 20 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |