Example sentences of "n't [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is n't that degree of distance which the minister himself asked for er in the committee er on which we both sat er in er nineteen eighty nine . |
| 2 | ‘ You are n't that kind of person , ’ said Louise . |
| 3 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 4 | She was n't that kind of girl . ’ |
| 5 | She wanted to assure him that she was n't that kind of idiot . |
| 6 | ‘ This is n't that kind of flatty . ’ |
| 7 | Forget it , he is n't that kind of man . |
| 8 | To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers . |
| 9 | But ( unlike the Tories ) it is n't that kind of outfit . |
| 10 | But Gyggle was n't that kind of shrink ; he kept on at me . |
| 11 | I walk into the terminal thinking , Well , at least there is n't that smell of sewage around you sometimes get when you arrive in dear old Embra ; I 'm not sure I could handle that right now . |
| 12 | ‘ It was n't that sort of ball . |
| 13 | It would be the height of bad manners , and I know you are n't that sort of person . |
| 14 | I told you it was n't that sort of relationship . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was n't that sort of wedding , ’ Philippa said . |
| 16 | It was n't that sort of beauty , it was Nature 's beauty , too complex to copy . |
| 17 | ‘ Refusing to consider my offer is n't some kind of revenge for what I said in Adelaide ? ’ he asked guardedly . |
| 18 | Primary education is n't some form of factory farming based on controlled diets of programmes of study and attainment targets . |
| 19 | Does n't this kind of dancing meet with your approval ? ’ |
| 20 | The kitschy Sixties strip routines are , er , amusing — but was n't this kind of thing supposed to belong in Fenn 's pre-Lynch past ? |
| 21 | What 's the , what 's , w why is n't this kind of process easy ? |
| 22 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 23 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 24 | There is n't much scope for skill here . ’ |
| 25 | He was a schoolteacher and a very nice man , I understand , but there was n't much opportunity for Mother to go out and have a little enjoyment and apparently Aunt Bessie did not encourage such things . |
| 26 | I have n't much sense of smell . " |
| 27 | ‘ Well , you have to make a quid somehow and there ai n't much money in firewood . ’ |
| 28 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 29 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 30 | Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola . |