Example sentences of "n't a [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a case of a lorry-load of new stuff — all rubber and zips and suspender belts — turning up one day . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's an extraordinary step , ’ Bloxham continued , ‘ calling anyone who is n't a member to a meeting . |
| 3 | This booklet is n't a blueprint for a policy , but a guide . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | After all , for most of us , a holiday just is n't a holiday without a bout of prickly heat . |
| 6 | Well you reckoned there were n't a corner on a boat . |
| 7 | ‘ It ai n't a lark to a girl that 's got no 'ome , no fam'ly — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This ai n't a peep-show for a nigger to watch . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I think so ; after all it was n't a job for a muscle man . |