Example sentences of "[be] n't a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Why I er , said that was because twenty years ago we were n't a second-rate football team .
2 I do n't brood on this too long because this is n't a long tube journey .
3 Yet it is n't a stripped-out bargain basement model .
4 Right , no one itself is n't a negative polarity item
5 Eubank is n't a fucked-up man venting aggression in the ring , he 's a skilled professional , although he has the punch to destroy anyone in his division .
6 The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate .
7 This is n't a glib advertising slogan but a statement of simple truth , because smoke detector alarms can and do save lives .
8 One look at the screenshots will tell you this is n't a dodgy Speccy port , updating about as fast as a reasonably athletic snail .
9 FUNNY TO reflect that , if the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame was n't a self-stroking shithole concept graveyard for Rolling Stone readers to drape their senile drool over , Vince Clarke would have been in it years ago .
10 It was n't a casual roughing-up Rebus had in mind for him .
11 This was n't a nice court room , with attorneys in their best suits reading off nice white paper .
12 ‘ It was the old Linfield spirit that carried them through because it was n't a great Linfield team , compared to the sides Trevor and I played for in the 80s .
13 You could tell that was n't a real Father Christmas though .
14 I could tell that was n't a real father Christmas at that thing .
15 Because Ivor would come to his senses if there was n't a little bastard Newley on the way ?
16 No , it was n't a proper jelly bowl .
17 Plus it really brought me back into touch with what was going on ; suddenly there was n't a big show happening , there was only me doing my personal little bit . ’
18 And that assumed there was n't a ground-controlled auto destruct .
19 Well I was sent to the erm United , well it was n't a United Reform Church then but it was called the Chapel and I was sent to there , to Sunday School there , mornings and afternoon and we went two by two across to the Chapel , you see , so while my father , we used to walk down the street together .
20 ‘ It was n't a last minute job .
21 I prayed that Kelly 's was n't a popular cop hang-out .
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