Example sentences of "[be] [coord] not [art] " in BNC.

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1 Why not get people that is activists and Oldham might well the branch for Oldham you 've got Dave from Stockport they 've got a MP retiring , they 're getting on now , you 've had , we 've had your time now , for God 's sake go you 've been there long enough , let's get the activists in , let's get G M B members and let's get this parliament back to what it should be and not the Tories .
2 He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ?
3 It is and not the word .
4 It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise .
5 He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become .
6 Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one .
7 Finally , we have discovered who Dionysius was but not the real secret left with him . ’
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