Example sentences of "it be [not/n't] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , and er , it 's not the seventeenth this Monday coming |
| 2 | Yeah it is n't the first correct one out , they 've all got shout if you like . |
| 3 | It was n't the first such attack . |
| 4 | they said exactly what you 're saying , it was n't the last twenty years it was |
| 5 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 6 | It was not the first British Empire . |
| 7 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |