Example sentences of "be n't [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people involved in administering the sport just are n't part of the scene , not the people I see at races … not there . |
| 2 | Because , have no doubt , it is our problem , since , to quote an old saying , ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you 're part of the problem . ’ |
| 3 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 4 | Now I understand that it is because we were n't part of the system . |
| 5 | You can see that there 's no point in the Bible writers wasting ink explaining how to go out with someone who fancies you when ‘ going out ’ and ‘ fancying ’ were n't part of the way that they did things then ! |
| 6 | The patterns on the floor were n't part of the design of the carpet . |
| 7 | That that 's how it it started , that 's why they were n't part of the force , is , police were part of a co community , and therefore to have respect for the police , seems to me quite vital if we are to have a real sense of of of justice and and fairness . |
| 8 | And they were just worried that if they did n't join in , they were n't part of the club then er |
| 9 | But the moon 's gravity is n't part of the earth , the moon 's gravity is with over here . |
| 10 | Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ In questa reggia ’ is ( I believe ) a mistake and probably a dangerous one : there is n't ice in the voice , and its glory lies much more within the tessitura of the Forza Leonora than this . |
| 12 | Thank you Chairman , I appreciate that erm prudence is n't flavour of the month in the current majority at this County Council and that indeed has been proved by several speeches from the opposition parties that were made this morning |
| 13 | I could n't stay in the centre , there was n't space in the centre |
| 14 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 15 | Absolutely no doubt , that that was n't part of the plan . |
| 16 | ‘ I was n't part of the investigation but because I was on duty I had to go to the scene of the crime . |
| 17 | At the moment most drivers have no official training on how to cope with motorway conditions , I asked Sergeant Bill Clarke from the Forces Driving School why it was n't part of the driving test . |
| 18 | ‘ But that was n't part of the deal ! |
| 19 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 20 | ‘ Entertaining the proprietor was n't part of the job description , ’ she offered , her tone creamy as she nerved herself to continue the debate if necessary . |
| 21 | Telling her she 'd have to get out and she was n't part of the family and all that . |
| 22 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 23 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 24 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |
| 25 | There was n't prejudice amongst the public then 'cause there was only a handful of coloured here , anyway . ’ |
| 26 | There was n't room in the car and Mark rode on the boot . |