Example sentences of "n't [verb] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |
| 2 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 3 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 4 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 5 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 6 | And what you do n't know is the question mark is at the end will you get your money back or not ? |
| 7 | What we do n't know is the plight of those , who are likely to be far greater in number , who have succumbed to the threat of penalties and kept quiet . |
| 8 | WRU 's position from Dr. John Davies was recently quoted in the South Wales Echo : ‘ It 's virtually impossible to stop , and what those people who use steroids do n't consider is the harm they do to themselves ‘ . |
| 9 | What the figures do n't show is the effect of the overall increase in labour turnover on standards : it ca n't have been good , and this helps account for some of the loss of business . |
| 10 | What you do n't expect is the level of NVH from the drivetrain and suspension . |
| 11 | The only person who would n't speak was the woman in a green loden cloak who scattered bread for the birds from a Harrods bag ; Magnus grew fat on brown wholemeal scraps and Gina gave up trying to keep him away . |
| 12 | But what you must n't use is the comma . |
| 13 | The only thing that did n't work was the understanding that we had to be big time very quickly . |
| 14 | What I do n't like is the noise . |
| 15 | It 's just that I mean this is the only thing about Halloween that I do n't like is the import from America of this trick or treat nonsense . |
| 16 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 17 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 18 | One bit of the letter I did n't like was the comment about strengthening the 1979 Act which , more properly should be abolished altogether . |
| 19 | In his opening remarks in Russian , he said : ‘ I do n't like being the centre of a sensation , but I know I ca n't avoid it this time . ’ |
| 20 | What he did n't understand was the nature of rock music . |
| 21 | Tax reductions , of that 's nice , interest rates or something and those said oh they 're two high over here , in America they 're four per cent , now what they do n't see is the interest rates are linked with the amount of peop the amount of people earn , the amount of people actually save |
| 22 | What they could n't see was the sadness in the eyes behind the mask . |
| 23 | However , one thing that you ca n't over-simplify is the fact that the old theological college will have to be knocked down before you can go ahead . |
| 24 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 25 | plenty of companies that er er this these er these can be printed by most printing companies what they do n't have is the infrastructure and the backup er |
| 26 | What they do n't have is the conductor 's ear and conductor's-eye view of the music . |
| 27 | would n't have been the reading that we were given , because she said the brief in the erm th the work that we 've had to read |
| 28 | ‘ It need n't have been the girl . ’ |
| 29 | She would n't have been the Queen if |
| 30 | It ca n't have been the script , which tried unconvincingly to suggest multiple reconciliation under the spell of the Castello Brown ( the castle 's real-life name , believe me or not ) and then petered out , as if the adaptor had given up and left the cast to improvise . |