Example sentences of "be n't [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We still are n't convinced that Trimmler 's death has anything to do with the death of our agents . |
| 2 | According to Slater , the semiconductor suppliers just are n't confident that a market exists for Alpha . |
| 3 | There are n't many that start with a K. |
| 4 | to go for go for the C each time cos there are n't many that start with a K. |
| 5 | C C K most of the time there are n't many that end in just a K. |
| 6 | MH : Quite apart from anything else , there are n't all that many professional artists around here , unlike London , so you tend to feel a bit isolated . |
| 7 | There are n't all that many small brewers left in the region , after all , and most of them already have formal or informal alliances of their own . |
| 8 | First of all , there are n't all that many of us who want to come back haunting after we 're dead . |
| 9 | My kids are n't aware that anything is wrong . |
| 10 | Perhaps some people are n't aware that the title Defender of the Faith was given to Henry VIII by the Pope in honour of Henry 's book praising the Catholic Church . |
| 11 | And you are n't aware that you can actually go from A to B at different times . |
| 12 | ‘ You are n't worried that there might be things about me that you wo n't like ? |
| 13 | Now a lot of times when people are n't assertive that 's because of what — they have certain attitudinal approaches that are ineffective in certain circumstances , or what ? |
| 14 | The pale paint splashes , the next one ahead visible all the time , were n't all that marked the trail : it showed signs in broken twigs and scuffed ground of our passage the day before . |
| 15 | because er there were n't all that many er available , what , what do you think of , twenty one of you said yes , of the twenty one who said yes are you surprised that the great majority of this hundred women are so unimpressed by , by the courts system , who said yes and would you like to defend your answer ? , yes |
| 16 | It came to me that my mother was proud of her friendship with this high-spirited outcast , and I felt resentment as I thought of my own upbringing , of the fuss when my school reports were n't all that my mother would have wished , of the scene when once I had sworn . |
| 17 | There were n't all that many twenty-four-year-old graduates with the good fortune to run their own successful public relations business in London . |
| 18 | There were n't all that many came either . |
| 19 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 20 | Yet despite the general improvement in relations and these two releases , we were n't confident that we would soon follow . |
| 21 | When we worked it out as an average that the sheer monitoring and chasing quotes or following up quotes erm and just preparing the documentation , we were n't convinced that was the case at all . |
| 22 | It were n't fair that one woman should fall every time her husband used her , while another never fell at all . |
| 23 | These hearties certainly were n't aware that Thomas was wrong-footing himself . |
| 24 | Yeah , this , this is interesting , it gets confusing perhaps because erm , I rang British Section , British Section today erm , enquiring about er , ah , there it is , were , were are we , erm enquiring about er groups having two prisoners you brought this up last time and as the result of me talking to somebody there erm , it became clear that British Section still showed us as having Sabri Lushe as a prisoner , erm and they were n't aware that we were no longer dealing with him , he 'd been released , and what they say is they usually get conformation from International Secretarium |
| 25 | They were n't aware that we have in the internal telephone directory all the direct dialling lines listed . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose we just took it that he would , and were n't surprised that he made a pretence of being unconcerned and going his own way about it . |
| 27 | Sauce is n't all that cranberries are fit for — they can be used to good effect in a number of recipes . |
| 28 | MISLEADING : Clydesdale 's offer is n't all that it seems |
| 29 | The details of how to best look after a NiCad battery are much too complicated to go into in the answer to a letter and there is n't much that an innocent user can do to help anyway . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is n't surprising that this system still continues . |