Example sentences of "n't [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT WE GOT WAS N'T UNIFIED UNIX IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE |
| 2 | It is n't that famine in Africa is actually anything new ; the emaciated , wide-eyed child of a decade of Oxfam advertisements is far too familiar to allow that . |
| 3 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 4 | It was quite true ; there was n't another woman in the castle dressed as richly and fashionably , not even the Maclean 's sister . |
| 5 | There was n't another soul in the whole world who could handle the mistress like her , and , if the truth be told , she had been really concerned about the mistress 's bird-like appetite . |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine what would prompt this woman to dredge it all up if there was n't some truth in it . |
| 7 | Beech , there was n't much beech in , it was mostly round the mansion and at the back of the grounds . |
| 8 | They were the worst roads in the country and there was n't much enjoyment in it . |
| 9 | And you could both write something maybe about your grading maybe a little bit about what was good , what was hard , what was easy , what was boring about this cos I think there was a lot of hard work , there was n't much play in it today was there ? |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you have to make a quid somehow and there ai n't much money in firewood . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , there was n't much money in your wallet , not for a gent like you , so I thought there must be a bit in the letter . ’ |
| 12 | That 's the way it is when there is n't much money in the club . |
| 13 | The poor man had obviously given up hope and I could tell by his apathetic manner that he had n't much faith in this latest ploy . |
| 14 | But there was n't much interference in in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | There was n't much choice in any case . |
| 16 | There was n't much amusement in his smile . |
| 17 | ‘ And there was n't much light in the wash house . |
| 18 | An officer at Scotland Yard 's Obscene Publications Squad tells me there is n't much interest in magazines these days : videos are where the action is . |
| 19 | There is n't much security in this business and the Firestone contract represented a lot to me . ’ |
| 20 | The front bit has n't much blood in it , but the two side bits when they fill up with blood and they start to stretch , it 's like blowing up a balloon . |
| 21 | There is n't much difference in the flavour . |
| 22 | ‘ There is n't much food in the flat , but I can go to the Asian shop round the comer . |
| 23 | ‘ There is n't much point in trying to grow a belt of trees across the desert , ’ Camilla Toulmin , the head of IIED 's Drylands Programme , told the author . |
| 24 | There was n't much point in it now if they were going to live in Thirkett . |
| 25 | ‘ There was n't much point in sitting down and going over and over again into what went wrong at Coventry . |
| 26 | You will appreciate there is n't much point in training a bird to do this if every time you enter a different environment or a stranger comes into view it becomes hysterical . |
| 27 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 28 | There really is n't much point in the adventurers sitting down to read ( takes too long ) or taking books away . |
| 29 | There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock . |
| 30 | In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots . |