Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Browne did not think it was the job of councils to provide housing , but Mr. Barron was quick to counter that point . |
| 2 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 3 | But as the London Food Commission points out : ‘ The problem for consumers at the moment is that they do not know which are the PVC clingfilms . |
| 4 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 5 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ I believe Manchester is an injured party — I do not believe it is the fault of the city . |
| 7 | Police do not believe it was the work of Colombian drug lords Photograph ( omitted ) : |
| 8 | Although the breathlessness was noticeable , I could not understand what was the matter with her . |
| 9 | It 's not paying it 's the hold up is n't it ? |
| 10 | Fleury uttered a curse and started to examine it , for the life of him he could not see what was the matter . |
| 11 | I think network marketing I think it I think that turns out to be jolly hard work because if you 're not recruiting it 's the recruitment part of it . |
| 12 | I am not saying which is the salt and which is the sugar — it just is absolutely designed not to produce an intelligent reaction in the spectator . |
| 13 | No , we 're not saying it 's the leeway might be important , cos as I said , these choices , and Sandra will agree , there 's only two columns , that is n't gon na increase ! |
| 14 | It is not known who was the mother of Osred , Aldfrith 's son and successor , nor when Aldfrith 's queen , Cuthburh , parted from him to found a nunnery at Wimborne ( ASC A , s.a. 718 ) . |
| 15 | What these empirical data can not tell us is the quality of the interaction which has taken place . |
| 16 | It 's hilarious , it 's really ironic and you explain all this to McDunn and you laugh because it actually is n't the fault of the police you 're not sleeping it 's the nightmares where you 're stalked by a gorilla with the voice of a baby and a huge syringe and he wants to fuck you with it , is n't that hilarious ? |
| 17 | Ironically one of those who could n't make it was the Conservatives ' first Asian Tory MP Nirj Deva , who is serving a life ban at the restaurant for becoming ‘ too exuberant ’ there seven years ago . |
| 18 | Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty ! |
| 19 | Would n't think there was the room in there for , for women . |
| 20 | She did n't think she was the stuff that heroines were made of ! |
| 21 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't think you were the sort to care about other people 's opinions . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm the kind of man who ought to have a working wife . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I do n't think he 's the sort of chap to do that — especially if there 's a stiff breeze at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think he 's the sort of man who is good at controlling a whole … ’ |
| 26 | But I 'm unlikely to do the New York Marathon in any case , because I 'm very much a rhythm runner , and I do n't think it 's the course for me . |
| 27 | cos I do n't think it 's the problem of a erm a safety record I think it 's the perceived |
| 28 | I do n't think it 's the majority , you 're wrong there . |
| 29 | The British commander who has to bring his team through the desert in Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ) seems hysterical and incompetent by comparison with the Dutch South African who accompanies them but is working for the Germans ; and the message of Ealing 's Dunkirk ( 1958 ) is summarized in one character 's closing statement , ‘ Somebody 's made a muck of it but I do n't think it 's the army . ’ |
| 30 | And I do n't think it 's the royals |