Example sentences of "'s not a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And she like goes up to him quite freely and just kisses him on the lips , you know okay fair enough people have friendships like that but it 's not a kind of kiss on the cheek it is as if there 's something in it , you know , as if always she 's rubbing it into him .
2 It 's not a case of helping because in the letters I know what , I know what I 'm doing , I 'm just , I 'm just gone to ,
3 ‘ There 's not a grain of truth in the Smith stories and it 's unsettling for the club , ’ said Wigan chairman Jack Robinson .
4 Then she looked up : " There 's not a grain of soda in this kitchen .
5 You see God is th , i i is a God of order he 's not a God of disorder , it 's not a case of anybody doing what they like , he works according to his pattern .
6 ‘ We 've driven a hard bargain — it 's not a question of charity !
7 They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes .
8 ‘ Oh , Tess , it 's not a question of forgiveness !
9 it 's , it 's a question it 's not a question of cover , and it 's not a question of erm efficiency it 's a question of small mindedness .
10 ‘ It 's not a question of idealism , ’ he says .
11 Denying the charge of racism , he protested that : ‘ It 's not a question of race , it 's a question of culture .
12 It 's not a question of time . ’
13 ‘ It 's not a question of spying , ’ Richie said urgently .
14 ‘ It 's not a question of good .
15 ‘ It 's not a question of privacy , but of balance , of what your life 's about . ’
16 So whereas aid at present is vital , cos there 's people starving to actually put the situation right i it 's not a question of aid at all , not a question of relief .
17 ‘ It 's not a question of tolerance , but one of respect ! ’
18 But before she could finish , he retorted : ‘ He 's not a member of Equity . ’
19 It 's not a base of knowledge but a subset that can be easily manipulated .
20 That 's not a way of life .
21 ‘ But there 's not a shred of proof , is there ? ’
22 ‘ She 's not a vision of loveliness today , is she ? ’ she would say of some man , in a deafening aside .
23 There 's not a world of difference between the carb 1.6 fitted to this estate and the injected version : 90bhp against 108 and no vast difference in refinement , which of course says far more about the injected engine .
24 Well this you can sit down in the seats , you can look at the you can touch the tables , there 's not a lot of stuff but if if you got any sense of history you can get the feel of the place you know .
25 The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ?
26 There 's not a lot of evidence that the government really does know what it 's talking about when it comes to BSE .
27 To make them think there 's not a lot of work and that you know ?
28 My father will go to the cash and carry every week , and perhaps he 'll pop into into Tesco 's or something and get a few bits and pieces , so we got a lot in the fridge , but it 's not a lot of variety .
29 And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next .
30 Now , I know a sum of money of nearly twenty thousand may not seem a lot of money in total , it 's not a lot of money in terms of , it can be quite a large sum in terms of doing things with economic development .
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