Example sentences of "n't [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't about the dead hand of the past , the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present . |
| 2 | But most of his lessons , to my surprise , are n't about the human body being a machine : they are about hospital administration . |
| 3 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 4 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 5 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 6 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
| 7 | He might even be passably attractive , Virginia told herself furiously , if it were n't for the villainous growth of stubble on his jaw . |
| 8 | If it was n't for the Great Video Game in the sky , I 'd probably be reduced to watching The Young Doctors . |
| 9 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 10 | If it was n't for the evil shadow of this wicked body , we could all be a lot happier about Major 's slim majority . |
| 11 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 12 | Yet her first impressions of the Obersturmfuhrer were n't of a brutal man . |
| 13 | I think also where I was was n't like the main trading bit , I think it 's |
| 14 | Eileen was n't above a tidy touch of manipulation herself when it suited . |
| 15 | If he could say that , for all his suffering , he was n't in a dying frame of mind . |
| 16 | And you 've been in a scenario where there 's one manager and there 's a few people who are n't in a managing role , but you are actually managers , maybe they 'd like a little reversal , I mean , I think some good things have come out of that , and possibly things that you 'd do better next time . |
| 17 | Most new artists and bands are n't in a strong bargaining position . |
| 18 | Thomas ai n't in a good mood is he ? |
| 19 | Tom ai n't in a good mood . |
| 20 | That she was n't in a powerless position . |
| 21 | The hedge was moving past quite gently , as if it was n't in a particular hurry to get anywhere , but the surface of the lane already had a blurred look . |
| 22 | The barman , sensing Whitlock was n't in a talkative mood , left him alone . |
| 23 | She was n't in a fit state to be on her own . |
| 24 | ‘ You clearly are n't in a fit state to drive , but I assumed you 'd be stubborn about it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 26 | Kate was n't in the right mood for him . |
| 27 | She was looking for a pensioner but , you were n't in the right street . |
| 28 | But it still is n't in the right place . |
| 29 | He was n't in the forward dome car , upstairs or down , nor in the open dayniter . |
| 30 | these other items were n't in the normal refuse collection and therefore they were going to sort of reduce them from a weekly collection to a |