Example sentences of "n't [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't that chapter for the rest of the year and say the teacher probably thinks well this child and |
| 2 | Nothing happened for a moment , and in that moment she started to think that she 'd over-reached herself ; but then Charlie said , ‘ This is n't some charity for runaways , you know , ’ and she knew that she was still within the limits , if only just . |
| 3 | But there is n't adequate funding for , for |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By her coarseness she sought to make things easier for him — she committed herself to the relationship , to this way of life , which , God knew , was n't much fun for her . |
| 6 | The older women were kindly souls , as maternal as their husbands were ruthless murderers , but honestly they were n't much fun for Mrs Goreng . |
| 7 | ‘ There was n't much scope for doing very much that year … . |
| 8 | There is n't much scope for skill here . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mm , no , well there is n't much hope for those that rejected Jesus in his time |
| 11 | Mind you , with all the services we had to go to , there was n't much time for it either . |
| 12 | ‘ There is n't much time for this . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 16 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |
| 17 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 18 | While every clothes store carries a petite range , there is n't one range for the taller than average woman . |
| 19 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |
| 20 | But if there were n't any money for 'em . |
| 21 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 22 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 23 | There certainly was n't any need for such a gambit with a woman of the street . |
| 24 | ‘ There was n't any need for a change to the rules , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ There really is n't any reason for me to stay here any longer . ’ |
| 26 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 27 | ‘ They have n't any time for Randolph Ash . |
| 28 | N is ‘ No , I 'm afraid there is n't any cure for this disease , ’ which is what the first doctor said . |
| 29 | I remember the minister 's housekeeper , Miss Lumb , calling to see if she could do anything to help , and the four-year-old Ann saying in a plaintive voice , ‘ There is n't any room for Miss Lump in this bed ! ’ |
| 30 | We use up all that brain capacity that 's left dark in normals , and there is n't any room for dreaming . |