Example sentences of "n't [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was n't only the starboard side that needed attention .
2 It was n't only the pain fitzAlan must be enduring that worried her .
3 And Bob Dylan was n't just a folk singer .
4 A teddy bear is n't just a childhood plaything , it 's a lifetime committment .
5 It was n't just a tourist showpiece .
6 If it is n't just the money problems of unemployment , what is it ?
7 And when the thousands of like minded people joined forces it was n't just the crime rate that seemed to improve .
8 It was n't just the silence Julie found overwhelming , it was the claustrophobic atmosphere of the place .
9 But it was n't just the disc dodgers who found themselves in trouble .
10 Being the first to do it is n't just an ego thing , it 's also breaking new ground .
11 It was n't exactly a copybook launch , though by no means was everything within Ford 's control .
12 Well it were n't exactly the school teacher 's fault cos Panda jumped out of the hedge into the lights from the cemetery cos she liked to go mousing up there .
13 There is n't always an end product .
14 Now it was n't really a back pass although it did actually come off of Greyson .
15 But justice was done really cos it was n't really a back pass in the first place .
16 It was n't really a management job .
17 ‘ Just afterwards , he said he had decided not to do it because of other work commitments , so the project came to a halt as a result of the difficulty in finding an actor to play the part ; it was n't really a gag script — it was made for an actor more than a comedian .
18 Part woman-in-peril thriller , part comic financial caper , part romantic weepie , it 's a lot of things but it is n't really a ghost story , not in the conventional sense .
19 But hims is n't really a rugby player build is he ?
20 Hank said , ‘ Simon was n't really a war profiteer , was he , Daddy ? ’
21 Jimmy Dale Gilmore is wild and wiggly , Nanci Griffith is captured in her old folksy form and Percy Sledge sings a Hank Williams tune — just to remind us that country music is n't simply a WASP-y preserve .
22 Leith shot a glance at Naylor , seated next to her , who was n't even a tinge pink around the ears at his aunt 's revealing what , since there were others in her particular line who were far more senior , must surely be a lie .
23 So it was n't quite a fairy-tale ending , but we did all live more or less happily ever after .
24 The performances are certainly very competent , but this is n't quite the vintage Kantorov we 've come to expect from some of his later Denon recordings ; a degree of blandness gives the playing a slightly ‘ automatic ’ quality .
25 And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’
26 JAMES : Ian says R3 is n't actually a film licence .
27 It is n't actually a security lock .
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