Example sentences of "n't [art] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't the clue to a murder usually found in part of the victim 's past , or his dealings with people ? |
| 2 | ‘ Well , they have n't the structure of a lawyer 's work , ’ she said . |
| 3 | But is n't the middle of a recession a bad time to try and sell a business ? |
| 4 | There is n't the ghost of a case against me in anything you have . |
| 5 | Pen-based computing is a major step in that direction , Until someone builds a computer you can talk to that is n't the size of a filing cabinet there is likely to be an easier way to communicate with your technology . |
| 6 | It was n't the occasion for a discussion of the English notion of innocence until proven guilty . |
| 7 | Without any disrespect to them , we appreciate that Howard Wilkinson is n't the sort of a manager to make that decision without a lot of thought . |
| 8 | She was particularly fond , especially when asked her opinion on some current controversy , of quoting the words of Muhammad to Abu Said al-Khudri : ‘ Is n't the testimony of a woman worth only half the testimony of a man ? |
| 9 | ‘ This is n't the start of a campaign ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 11 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 12 | If I had n't stopped you would have made love with me , and that is n't the action of a woman desperately in love with another man , is it ? ’ |
| 13 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
| 14 | It was n't a case of a lorry-load of new stuff — all rubber and zips and suspender belts — turning up one day . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's an extraordinary step , ’ Bloxham continued , ‘ calling anyone who is n't a member to a meeting . |
| 16 | This booklet is n't a blueprint for a policy , but a guide . |
| 17 | ‘ There is n't a problem between a hairdresser and his client as long as the hairdresser can listen , understand and interpret what the client is saying . |
| 18 | After all , for most of us , a holiday just is n't a holiday without a bout of prickly heat . |
| 19 | Well you reckoned there were n't a corner on a boat . |
| 20 | ‘ It ai n't a lark to a girl that 's got no 'ome , no fam'ly — ’ |
| 21 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 22 | This ai n't a peep-show for a nigger to watch . ’ |
| 23 | It was n't a sort of a sort of a thin cane , it was quite a big stick , he whacked him a couple of times across the backside . |
| 24 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 25 | ‘ I think so ; after all it was n't a job for a muscle man . |