Example sentences of "n't [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't about only opposing , it is n't about passing resolutions , formulating programmes , making demands of something or someone else , or administering consensus . |
| 2 | TV is n't about real life . |
| 3 | The fact is , the Bible is n't about raw nature very much ; it 's almost all about human affairs . |
| 4 | You do n't about this cappuccino is I do n't understand is that here Maxwell cappuccino is |
| 5 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |
| 6 | The Words are n't worth one fraction of a second of sadness for a daughter of mine : |
| 7 | But it was n't worth fifty pound a week . |
| 8 | Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night . |
| 9 | You could n't through thick smoke , however much you wanted to . |
| 10 | If you have n't , it is n't through any failure on my part to spread this particular story . |
| 11 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 12 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 13 | I 'd have a lot more if it was n't for bloody death duties . ’ |
| 14 | With all these charges you can see that PEPs are n't for short-term investors . |
| 15 | is n't for all kids — some kids find it excruciating ; boring , meaningless and fruitless as well 'cos they 're not going to get anything . |
| 16 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 17 | A letter dated March 2nd already betrays some misgiving through its protestation : ‘ I do n't for one minute doubt about the fall of Verdun . ’ |
| 18 | " That 's just possible as an explanation , " said his wife , " if it were n't for one thing . " |
| 19 | But do n't for one moment feel you 're fickle if you change your perfume constantly , on a whim . |
| 20 | But do n't for one moment think that Munich should be left solely for the more seriously-minded visitor . |
| 21 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 22 | But I would n't for one moment suggest to the panel that windfalls and recycling of land should n't continue to take place . |
| 23 | Yeah , well one lot of tablets were , was , they were n't for relaxing tablets but they were called er |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’ |
| 25 | If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound . |
| 26 | he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a |
| 27 | But these things are n't for public consumption . |
| 28 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 29 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |
| 30 | If it were n't for this job creation scheme I 'd be on the rubbish tip |