Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We 're not a drugs band and we 're prepared to fight for our beliefs . ’ |
2 | You 're not a police officer . ’ |
3 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
4 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
5 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
6 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
7 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
8 | Therefore Paige Emerson is not an antiques dealer ! |
9 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
10 | Yeah , I , I could say well that 's not a police issue and then forget about it but that 's not really a good response , ? |
11 | So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be . |
12 | It 's not a savings plan . |
13 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
14 | But if you start talking about taking some of the cash from the fund , you 've got to tell the clients it could affect the cover that they 've got , because it is n't a savings policy . |
15 | what , oh , erm , there 's something I 've just thought of though , when they wear the er camouflage things , is that when they wear the maroon belt round ? , is n't the kaki belt with the dress uniform ? |
16 | ‘ That is n't the three-times table ! ’ |
17 | It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer . |
18 | This was not the operations room of a naval warship or a secret room in the White House but my modest office above a restaurant in north London . |
19 | The LEA , which had an equal opportunities policy for its education service , was not the admissions authority . |
20 | For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil . |
21 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
22 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
23 | He was n't a customs officer for nothing . |
24 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |