Example sentences of "[pron] be not a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not a police officer . ’ |
| 2 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're not a drugs band and we 're prepared to fight for our beliefs . ’ |
| 4 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 5 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not a savings plan . |
| 7 | So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be . |
| 8 | But if you start talking about taking some of the cash from the fund , you 've got to tell the clients it could affect the cover that they 've got , because it is n't a savings policy . |
| 9 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 10 | It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer . |
| 11 | He was n't a customs officer for nothing . |