Example sentences of "be n't something that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fame thing is n't something that I thrive on , and it is n't where creative energy stems from . ’ |
| 2 | But presumably that balance is n't something that 's encouraged either by the discipline of the job , or by a culture that assumes that men do n't have to take on responsibility for those things because women do . |
| 3 | ‘ We are making progress but that is n't something that happens overnight , it happens very slowly and almost imperceptibly . ’ |
| 4 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 5 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 6 | Arousal curve well understanding the need for arousal for me helped because I now understand that having nerves while you 're speaking is not unnatural it is n't something that you 're able to get rid of but you need to be able to work with it and practice to improve performance . |
| 7 | I tried to explain that you either had the vibe or you did n't , it was n't something that I could explain . ’ |
| 8 | erm and as you 'll be able to see from my introduction make do and mend was n't something that suddenly happened in nineteen thirty nine there were sections of society in which make do and mend was a permanent and not not particularly erm welcome fact of life . |
| 9 | Erm and that that was very disturbing , not many people knew about that letter , and certainly it was n't something that the that the probation staff who saw it , erm told anybody about . |
| 10 | It was n't something that he 'd intended , but it was n't something he could help . |
| 11 | But it was n't something that seemed to worry Belov . |
| 12 | Perhaps even when Liawski had been warden , but that was n't something that Reynolds could expect to remember . |
| 13 | It clearly was n't something that the patrol section could do at that time . |
| 14 | It had been clear from the conversation that it was n't something that concerned the gallery , but her personally . |
| 15 | It was n't something that the child automatically got |
| 16 | And therefore in a sense , it might be down to departmental management that it was n't something that the suggestion system should encompass . |
| 17 | You know the the price of the service was n't something that really upset people too much . |
| 18 | Indeed , there 's an excellent description in the seventeenth century by the physician Thomas Willis of an honest and prudent woman , as he describes her , who erm , after much hasty speaking will become mute as a fish , and one might even fancifully look further back and wonder whether this fatiguable weakness was n't something that erm that the Old Testament character , Samson , had . |