Example sentences of "that [be] n't the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc has all its marbles in the right place when it comes to designing and building fault-tolerant Unix systems — it would n't be an important partner of Hewlett-Packard Co if that were n't the case , but it still needs to get its act together on the marketing and finance side . |
| 2 | That were n't the reason , ’ she snapped . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 4 | that is n't the case . |
| 5 | Well that is n't the case . |
| 6 | When you start doing it you find that is n't the case . |
| 7 | That is n't the case . |
| 8 | But surely that is n't the case , I mean that , you know , we ca n't be responsible for the way in which all these groups actually behave and all the rest |
| 9 | So we we 're taking a consistent line on existing employment sites , we do want to reuse them but we do recognize that there may be circumstances where that er that is n't the case . |
| 10 | No that is n't the case . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope that is n't the case ? |
| 12 | erm but you 're also going to know that you 're contributing to the society erm and that even if some people in the newspapers and some politicians are dismissing unemployed people and saying that they 're scroungers , that that is n't the case for you , that you are erm making a positive input into society , probably a much more positive input than a lot of those people that are critical of erm unemployed people . |
| 13 | And I think all we can say is that we ca n't be sure that that is n't the case . |
| 14 | But that is n't the question we set out with . |
| 15 | Well that is n't the idea . |
| 16 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 17 | For one thing they are impossible to reach now and that is n't the way it has to be , it 's just the way it always is . |
| 18 | That is n't the way to be sorry for people — to make them conspicuous . |
| 19 | ‘ That is n't the way you went down , ’ the Doctor asked Bernice , ‘ is it ? ’ |
| 20 | We er , er , had all these homes , they sprung up , and what they 've decided is , that is n't the way to go forward from here on in , what we 're going to do , er , we 're gon na have what 's called care in the community . |
| 21 | ‘ That is n't the problem . ’ |
| 22 | Pen-based computing is a major step in that direction , Until someone builds a computer you can talk to that is n't the size of a filing cabinet there is likely to be an easier way to communicate with your technology . |
| 23 | ‘ And that is n't the lie I meant . ’ |
| 24 | But that is n't the reason for these kids not getting backing . |
| 25 | However , that is n't the end of the sum because you do have to add a policy fee , and we 're not talking expense charge here , of one pound nineteen , we are talking a number which has been devised so that you get right answer from the rate book . |
| 26 | ‘ That is n't the impression you gave in that newspaper article about you last week . ’ |
| 27 | like that , but but that is n't the woman . |
| 28 | That is n't the woman . |
| 29 | If I had n't stopped you would have made love with me , and that is n't the action of a woman desperately in love with another man , is it ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That is n't the thing ; she likes her old china . |