Example sentences of "n't [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's too simplistic to pretend that one way is better than the other because the comparison is n't between like and like . |
| 2 | Cos I mean presumably they were n't between eighteen fifty and nineteen fifty they were n't practising excessive birth control |
| 3 | I mean as soon as we 've got enough tapes in that we ca n't between us transcribe them in a week I buy another record er another transcription machine |
| 4 | So you see , Shelley , it is n't between you and me , or between any woman . |
| 5 | Well , it was n't about anything , except did she have it off or did n't she ? |
| 6 | Radio producers have to remind themselves each week that radio broadcasting is n't about selling records , but about entertaining an audience . |
| 7 | ‘ So it was n't about lending money to Bodo at all ? ’ |
| 8 | It is n't about the dead hand of the past , the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present . |
| 9 | Even the ones that are n't about image include image — like the Coke advert , for instance . |
| 10 | An Alliance Party worker said : ‘ The election in Northern Ireland is n't about a penny off income tax or hospital beds . |
| 11 | There are conflicting demands made on schools and good marketing is n't about taking up every , or any half-baked , idea in the pursuit of popularism . |
| 12 | Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant . |
| 13 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 14 | The verse was n't about Sarah , of course ( she was n't even from Martinique ) , but it was just right for her somehow . |
| 15 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
| 16 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 17 | This is n't about some petty artistic vendetta . |
| 18 | Marriage is n't about being ‘ in love ’ , it 's a deep and lasting friendship which far outweighs passion . ’ |
| 19 | The right to ‘ choose ’ is n't about democracy . |
| 20 | It was n't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers , it was about improving the real world . |
| 21 | She said gaily : ‘ The story is n't about Hank — it 's about my husband , Boyd . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes Please ’ is n't about thrills and pills , it 's not meant to be consumed through a pumping club sound system , it 's altogether on a much mellower tip . |
| 23 | ‘ Education is n't about knowing things but about how you feel about yourself . |
| 24 | The fact is , the Bible is n't about raw nature very much ; it 's almost all about human affairs . |
| 25 | It is n't about only opposing , it is n't about passing resolutions , formulating programmes , making demands of something or someone else , or administering consensus . |
| 26 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 27 | Well a mixture between both cos I can er ah go back but there 's lots of things I do just now that were n't about in those days . |
| 28 | This is n't about changing the company ; what people want is more money … ’ |
| 29 | It is n't about the dress at all — it 's a personal matter . ’ |
| 30 | That was n't about , it was n't about projects . |