Example sentences of "[am/are] n't [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You are n't a servant at Thornfield Hall , of course . |
2 | er other than wh the church ones , which obviously are n't a lot of use to us for this |
3 | One thing to be grateful about from my point of view … that Yorkies are n't the size of Rottweilers ! |
4 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
5 | Because if you do n't , if do n't do a word by word translation , as some of you did , you , you may miss the meaning of certain words , and that might totally alter your perception of what 's being said , and then what you should , wh when you 've done a literal translation , you will have a very stiff erm , u unusual version of it , written in modern English vocabulary but you 'll find that word ordering and things like that wo n't be appropriate , and sometimes the vocabulary are n't the kind of words that would normally be used now . |
6 | Are n't the majority of fans being short-changed a little here ? |
7 | ‘ Those are n't the sort of things you shoot , though , are they ? ’ |
8 | Sasha Konietzko and En Esch , it seems fair to say , are n't the sort of boys you take to Uncle Ken 's for a glass of ginger beer and a plate of fairy cakes . |
9 | Sasha Konietzko and En Esch , it seems fair to say , are n't the sort of boys you take to Uncle Ken 's for a glass of ginger beer and a plate of fairy cakes . |
10 | And these are n't the sort of people that write to us using block capitals all the way through , these are reasonable people who 've had their property damaged over the years some quite horrendous tales and talk about walls being knocked down . |