Example sentences of "n't [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With all these charges you can see that PEPs are n't for short-term investors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yeah , well one lot of tablets were , was , they were n't for relaxing tablets but they were called er |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The kick-off is n't for ten minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 11 | I agreed , but pointed out that it was n't for little boys . ’ |
| 12 | I thought Gran and Jake had ruined my childhood , Jake because he was n't like other boys and Gran because to my mind she would n't do enough about him . |
| 13 | Money worries are n't like other worries . |
| 14 | Oh , you were n't like that years ago though were you , when he was stopping out at bloody four o'clock in the morning I come round Joy , I 've come round |
| 15 | But Commander Abigail was n't like Funny Stiles . |
| 16 | Do n't under any circumstances try to do last-minute reading . |
| 17 | But she was n't into strange men suddenly appearing and offering to save her life . |
| 18 | Me and old are n't into fucking pencils are we ? |
| 19 | It was n't until 10 years after the crash that Wimpol was first approached to advise on suitable vessels and equipment for salvaging the wreckage from the ocean floor — a depth of three-and-a-half kilometres . |
| 20 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 21 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 22 | It was n't until five weeks before Prince William was born that the royal couple moved into Kensington Palace , the home also of Princess Margaret , the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and their immediate neighbours , Prince and Princess Michael of Kent . |
| 23 | I was given anti- depressants , that did n't help and it was n't until four years later when they actually admitted me to hospital and then an ulcer and the depression disappeared once it had been diagnosed . |
| 24 | But it was n't all plain flying when the wedding was postponed because of low cloud and it was n't until four days had elapsed that they were able to tell a Florida State public notary : ‘ I do ’ . |
| 25 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 26 | I have over the years sent my postal order regularly and it was n't until two years ago that I became more actively involved in the work of Save The Children fund raising . |
| 27 | Gravier 's brother made his identification on circumstantial evidence and it was n't until two days later he had the remains cremated and that occurred in Mexico City . |
| 28 | It was n't until 25 minutes later that he remembered — and by then the former Miss England had drowned in two feet of muddy water . |
| 29 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 30 | It was n't until three minutes into the second half that Mark Brennan forced Everton keeper Neville Southall into his first serious save of the game . |