Example sentences of "n't [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I mean presumably they were n't between eighteen fifty and nineteen fifty they were n't practising excessive birth control |
| 2 | But it 's too simplistic to pretend that one way is better than the other because the comparison is n't between like and like . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 5 | TV is n't about real life . |
| 6 | The fact is , the Bible is n't about raw nature very much ; it 's almost all about human affairs . |
| 7 | This is n't about some petty artistic vendetta . |
| 8 | You do n't about this cappuccino is I do n't understand is that here Maxwell cappuccino is |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyway I have n't about any of the newfangled ideas . |
| 11 | The Words are n't worth one fraction of a second of sadness for a daughter of mine : |
| 12 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 13 | Another award-winning garden by the Pershore College of Horticulture based on the mythological King , Midas , who was given the power to turn everything he touched to gold ; though this treasure is n't worth much — it 's concrete sprayed with gold paint . |
| 14 | But it was n't worth fifty pound a week . |
| 15 | It ai n't worth worrying about to be honest mate . |
| 16 | Now they are flooded with the West European goods their recycling is n't worth any more . |
| 17 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You could n't through thick smoke , however much you wanted to . |
| 20 | If you have n't , it is n't through any failure on my part to spread this particular story . |
| 21 | yesterday I have n't for four for five years . |
| 22 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'd have a lot more if it was n't for bloody death duties . ’ |
| 25 | I 've already told him I 'm gon na get my arse kicked cos I have n't for eight you see . |
| 26 | With all these charges you can see that PEPs are n't for short-term investors . |
| 27 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 28 | ‘ She 'd be alive today if it was n't for that . ’ |
| 29 | If it were n't for that bloody fire , you 'd never ‘ a ’ brought that damned woman and her brats to this house . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't be a cook if it was n't for that . |