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

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1 Well , it 's not the case with music .
2 It 's not the case with opera , where everyone walks backwards and sounds God-awful .
3 He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend .
4 ‘ Anyone who knows Jo would realise that she 's not the kind of person to do that , ’ he said .
5 That 's not the kind of vision that distinguishes people .
6 ‘ It 's not the kind of document you are going to get a dramatic reaction to ; you might say it 's more of a White Paper , ’ Ernst & Young 's Mort Meyerson told ACCOUNTANCY .
7 But that 's not the kind of music I like .
8 And she 's not the kind of girl to be bothered by any of your smutty revelations … so tell away , old thing .
9 It 's not the kind of book which you would find being written today , by psychologists , or anthropologists , or social scientists in general .
10 The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining .
11 I was horrified at the lack of concern … but that 's not the kind of thing this band addresses . ’
12 Of course , it 's not the kind of thing that everyone would want to get involved in … ’
13 ‘ It 's not the kind of thing that would influence you , of course , ’ says Caroline , ‘ but the prospects would be quite good . ’
14 ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said .
15 Though it 's not the kind of thing should be second nature to a kid .
16 Perhaps it 's not the kind of humour that transfers well to paper — try explaining Reeves 's hero , Tommy Cooper , in print .
17 That 's not the kind of game we like to play against .
18 Green a bad area , it 's not the whole of Green , it 's just the flats .
19 Of course , these days , there 's not the sense of panic
20 I do n't intend to give the council a to solving the world 's problems and that 's not the word to mind but problems .
21 My wife is sure Maurin 's not the type of man to be violent and that the men who came were n't sent by him . ’
22 He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops .
23 cos there 's not the depth of soil in this one .
24 That 's not the place for entertainment — it 's for your knitting and your eating and your bit of slap and tickle .
25 It 's not the job of education to ensure that young people settle for the status quo .
26 In short , it 's not the use of language that distinguishes being told the truth from other ways of finding it out : it 's the fact that when we tell people the truth , we do so by getting them to believe what we believe .
27 ‘ That 's not the point at issue , ’ Fen told her .
28 I wonder if it 's not the game of football that 's a problem , but the attitude of many of the people involved .
29 It 's not the amount of faith that we can muster .
30 And the reason he remains friends with his ex-wives and lovers is that he 's a man 's man , essentially , he 's not the sort of man who would not have women friends around him unless they had , in some way , been involved with him .
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