Example sentences of "it [not/n't] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not a ridiculous situation when the motoring correspondent of The Times ( 30 Jan. ) describes how he intended travelling from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter of the price , despite sole occupancy of a largish estate car ? |
| 2 | Is it not a telling comment on our times that to preach peace is to invite violence upon your person ? |
| 3 | Was it not a drunken pedlar in a parson 's habit ? |
| 4 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 5 | Is it not a tidy state of affairs when the best that the 370-odd Tory Members can deliver in this place every Tuesday and Thursday and at other Question Times is a tirade of abuse about what Labour would do ? |
| 6 | Is it not a considerable tribute to our diplomacy that we were able to persuade our Community partners to allow us to gain an advantage over them ? |
| 7 | And is it not a true bill , now as in 1918 ? |
| 8 | Is it not a British peculiarity , this combination of public prudery with extreme puriance , extreme interest in sex and devious at that , and which fills the newspapers whenever public events give them an opportunity . |
| 9 | Is it not a fitting monument to 13 years of shyster Tory Government ? |
| 10 | Was it not a direct insult , an attempt to humiliate me ? |
| 11 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |