Example sentences of "[noun prp] is n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So subsidiarity at the end of the day , is to ensure that that big brother Brussels is n't taking power away from us . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no need for your presence if Rebecca is n't using the computer . |
| 3 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 4 | For the time being Wordperfect is n't going to compete head-on against Lotus Development Corp 's Notes product . |
| 5 | Yeah er if you , what was on tonight was er on the , there was a T V programme on tonight called What the Papers Say and the editor Alistaire Campbell was on tonight , he is actually quite left-wing and this paper will , is actually quite vehement about the government , much more than the Sun would ever be , it 's quite interesting , yet that is owned by Murdoch , but I have to say that I think that is only because Murdoch is n't liked in that way since to have |
| 6 | When Mrs Whatsit asks him tonight why her little Johnny is n't making more progress with his English , Iain McWhirter will reply that progress is not to be expected from a boy who is abysmally lazy and congenitally stupid . ’ |
| 7 | If Johnny is n't working hard in class then does the responsibility belong to the teacher and not the parent ? |
| 8 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ Masklin said eventually , ‘ that Grandson Richard is n't going to go straight off to watch the satellite fly away . |
| 9 | Eugene is n't drinking today and appears a shade queasy . |
| 10 | That Alan is n't working away , I mean he comes home every |
| 11 | It too might be 32-bit , but IBM is n't giving anything away at the moment . |
| 12 | I 'll show the buggers that old man Reynolds is n't done yet . |
| 13 | And with big fight tickets to sell , Frank is n't going to stand about silently while Lennox knocks his fight . |
| 14 | If Ginseng is n't castrated , now is the time to do it . |
| 15 | Now the the trains the twelve twenty eight Aberdeen is n't going to leave until twelve fifty four er let's have a look anything else er Liverpool twelve thirty eight Middlesborough Edge Hill er no leaves on the line but you know you do n't you never know the er er er I do n't understand that the thirteen eighteen what 's that ? |
| 16 | But doing the publicity for his new film , The Freshman , a sweetly off-beat little comedy in which he plays Clark Kellog , an innocent film student drawn into an impenetrable plot involving rare animals and gangster gourmets , Matthew Broderick is n't allowed even this consolation . |
| 17 | " Well , now , Mr Hyde is n't receiving any visitors today ; come back another time . " |
| 18 | No Reg is n't playing . |
| 19 | See Reg is n't playing . |
| 20 | Christopher is n't sleeping with us . |
| 21 | But Laverne is n't listening . |
| 22 | Farr-Jones is n't saying it in as many words , but he clearly feels that some of the doors opened by the World Cup triumph were not marched through quickly or expertly enough . |
| 23 | And you — Gog is n't going to listen to you . |
| 24 | Gavin Dixon is n't finished yet . |
| 25 | ‘ This Mr Dickens is n't wanted on no murder enquiry . |
| 26 | BMW is n't saying which part of the new range will sell best ( the smart money is on the 318i ) . |
| 27 | But the corrupt Cardinal Stillaci is n't having any of this , and with many a dark reference to Roberto Calvi and John Paul I , devilish plans are hatched to bump the Pope off . |
| 28 | ‘ Silvia is n't paying me anything . ’ |
| 29 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 30 | ‘ Robert is n't attracted to me . |