Example sentences of "[is] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( How can you be sure your partner is n't infected ? ) |
| 2 | Because shooting your brain to bits is n't worth it ! |
| 3 | This is n't necessarily so and by neglecting to make a valid , legal Will families put at risk the security and future of their nearest and dearest . |
| 4 | Unlike many of the towns through which he has bribed his way in his Peugeot from the coast , this one is n't ‘ full of blood ’ . |
| 5 | It is n't lost on him that his reading matter — popular science , pornography — is ‘ junk ’ . |
| 6 | It is n't that Ackroyd asks us to compare these two poor Toms , in pursuit of a theory alleging the importance of imitation . |
| 7 | All this could suggest that Kingsley Amis is n't altogether sold on Patrick Standish . |
| 8 | But it is n't plain sailing either to claim it as racist and sexist . |
| 9 | It is n't every comic genius who would undertake to send his talent into such painful places . |
| 10 | Not that Doyle is n't taxing and maddening too . |
| 11 | Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't . |
| 12 | It 's pretty lightweight , most of it and what is n't lightweight is salacious , so I would n't think you 'd find much to stimulate you there , but you could try . |
| 13 | This is n't better because someone says it 's better , or because there 's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords . |
| 14 | Taking a cricket bat to the audition is n't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella . |
| 15 | Playing at cards is n't for one , except Patience . |
| 16 | But they do n't want more money , ; it 's like me , is n't it ? |
| 17 | Y' know , buyin' new dresses all the time , is n't it ? |
| 18 | After all , having a card is n't |
| 19 | The theatre is always larger than life , is n't it ? |
| 20 | Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself . |
| 21 | And , of course , working with professional directors who wo n't say things like ‘ Your uvula is n't relaxed enough ’ , but simply ‘ I ca n't hear you ’ . |
| 22 | In any case one person 's typecasting is n't always another 's . |
| 23 | I mean the most exciting moment of all is when you are actually chosen for a part — after that initial excitement it 's a bit downhill — not because the work is n't marvellous but because the first challenge is the peak . |
| 24 | Perhaps directors in particular need to realise how much their vitality means to the continuing performance — that it is n't enough to be left up on a stage merely doing it night after night . |
| 25 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 26 | Particularly the physical side of the work — where there is n't nearly enough . |
| 27 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |
| 28 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 29 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
| 30 | This is n't just customer care : this is better margins and hard profit . |