Example sentences of "n't [pron] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Were n't you a friend of Charley 's ? ’ |
2 | ‘ Have n't you a woman in the house that 's not your wife ! ’ ’ |
3 | Ruth , have n't you an ounce of self-respect ? |
4 | Is n't one the sort of the young up-coming expensive . |
5 | The embedded " letter " ( a direct address to the reader , often with apology or denunciation of the course ) : " Is n't there a problem with the way you have formulated this question ? |
6 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
7 | " Is n't there a case for an official police search ? " |
8 | ‘ Was n't there a judge in the 1950s who had a similar problem ? |
9 | ‘ Is n't there a discount for cash ? ’ she argued . |
10 | Was n't there a course on dance movement or something ? |
11 | But is n't there a sense in which people in other countries really have to help themselves , at least in the first instance ? |
12 | I see very much what you 're saying , but is n't there a sense in which you almost need to absorb in an automatic sense some of the basic things ? |
13 | Hopefully , this will deal with such questions as , ‘ If Gardner is right , why are n't there a lot of cases of childhood leukaemia in Devon and Cornwall where natural radiation levels are high ? ’ |
14 | ‘ Millet has a gospel , and I ask you , is n't there a difference between a drawing of his and a nice sermon ? ’ |
15 | But is n't there a difference between ‘ Cooee ’ and ‘ Here ’ ? |
16 | I 'll split the money with you , if you like , and was n't there a letter in it as well ? ’ |
17 | I is n't there a danger of us becoming a committee , a publicity committee you know ? |
18 | Is n't there a precedent for all this muddle ? and opt out clause . |
19 | Is n't there an 'H' in Whitney Houston ? |
20 | ‘ Was n't there an episode with a company director before Adam ? ’ he queried , his voice deceptively soft . |
21 | Were n't they a part of the Zeitgeist after all ? |
22 | And they normally say that a minute of erm that is gon na be a thousand quid do n't they a minute of video is a thousand quid |
23 | Well , are n't they the life of the party ? |
24 | Just to explode any lingering subtlety , Unberto Eco even has someone ask , ‘ Was n't he a character in Middlemarch ? ’ |
25 | ‘ Is n't he a friend of the Earl of Essex ? ’ |
26 | But has n't he a need to be loved by her ? |
27 | Was n't he the reason for her anger ? |
28 | ‘ Is n't it a bit of a risk ? ’ |
29 | ‘ Is n't it a bit of a strain , though , living in the same house with them ? ’ |
30 | Was n't it a kind of stone one cast when telling fortunes ? |