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 . |