Example sentences of "and [adj] [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 2 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 3 | ‘ We want a good , strong boat that is easy to maintain and that is n't too expensive . |
| 4 | For one thing they are impossible to reach now and that is n't the way it has to be , it 's just the way it always is . |
| 5 | The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate . |
| 6 | And that is n't what I risked my skin and yours for . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd enjoy beating Kocinski and that is n't possible any more . |
| 8 | and that is n't |
| 9 | I 've done that and that is n't very nice . |
| 10 | If I had n't stopped you would have made love with me , and that is n't the action of a woman desperately in love with another man , is it ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Only when I want to make love to you , and that is n't what you 've got in mind right now , is it ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And that is n't the lie I meant . ’ |
| 13 | Thinking about it , he only makes love when he wants to , and that is n't very often . |
| 14 | I think they erm kid themselves on that they do because they understand figures and money and that is n't business . |
| 15 | And that is n't , that is n't always very easy . |
| 16 | it 's three four five-ish per cent yeah , and that is n't gon na be on e the same on every product so |
| 17 | And that is n't you . |
| 18 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 19 | because they 've sold everything off like gas and electricity and everything and all the resources they 've got for it they 've spent , to supplement everything else , so the money wo n't be there , and , and the income from the electricity and that is n't going to the Government it 's going to private enterprise |
| 20 | Yeah but it 's only the supermarkets and that is n't it ? |
| 21 | straight to the doctors and that is n't he ? |
| 22 | and that is n't gon na go away unless we |
| 23 | So it 's line of symmetry there and that is n't a line of symmetry . |
| 24 | And that is n't funny is it ? |
| 25 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 26 | And that is n't . |
| 27 | I know it 's difficult , I know the City is highly congested and we ca n't plough down beautiful buildings in order to make better roads and so on , and that is n't what we want to do . |
| 28 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
| 29 | Yes , maybe there are some women who do n't have to work , their husbands are well off and love them , but they often stay indoors all day and that is not nice . |
| 30 | ‘ And that is not to be tolerated . ’ |