Example sentences of "n't [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't enthusiasm from the young people to join these days , and the dwindling numbers had rendered it impossible to carry on . |
| 2 | This week , in yet another head-to-head about the threatened Wensleydale railway , he sought assurances from BR that their apparent reluctance to allow charter excursions on the line is n't part of a closure strategy or ‘ stitching the line up ’ , as local campaigner Stan Abbott vividly puts it . |
| 3 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 4 | The people involved in administering the sport just are n't part of the scene , not the people I see at races … not there . |
| 5 | Because , have no doubt , it is our problem , since , to quote an old saying , ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you 're part of the problem . ’ |
| 6 | You can see that there 's no point in the Bible writers wasting ink explaining how to go out with someone who fancies you when ‘ going out ’ and ‘ fancying ’ were n't part of the way that they did things then ! |
| 7 | I was n't part of the bloody task force . ’ |
| 8 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 9 | Now I understand that it is because we were n't part of the system . |
| 10 | Telling her she 'd have to get out and she was n't part of the family and all that . |
| 11 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 12 | The patterns on the floor were n't part of the design of the carpet . |
| 13 | ‘ Entertaining the proprietor was n't part of the job description , ’ she offered , her tone creamy as she nerved herself to continue the debate if necessary . |
| 14 | ‘ It is n't part of the clergy 's pastoral duties to know how to use fingerbowls , ’ he said testily . |
| 15 | I was n't part of the warm hum of approval |
| 16 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 17 | The meeting booked for 20th May is a one-off to discuss one item only and is n't part of the normal sequence . |
| 18 | Absolutely no doubt , that that was n't part of the plan . |
| 19 | ‘ But that was n't part of the deal ! |
| 20 | ‘ I was n't part of the investigation but because I was on duty I had to go to the scene of the crime . |
| 21 | And they were just worried that if they did n't join in , they were n't part of the club then er |
| 22 | That that 's how it it started , that 's why they were n't part of the force , is , police were part of a co community , and therefore to have respect for the police , seems to me quite vital if we are to have a real sense of of of justice and and fairness . |
| 23 | But the moon 's gravity is n't part of the earth , the moon 's gravity is with over here . |
| 24 | At the moment most drivers have no official training on how to cope with motorway conditions , I asked Sergeant Bill Clarke from the Forces Driving School why it was n't part of the driving test . |
| 25 | I do n't , I do n't bit of a old |
| 26 | I have n't bit of a long one that ! |
| 27 | There was n't prejudice amongst the public then 'cause there was only a handful of coloured here , anyway . ’ |
| 28 | The charge was n't murder of an unborn child . |
| 29 | Well it 's not surprising because these kinds of records are hardly ever available ; if there 's research , usually it 's kept classified , because research is n't actually done on mortality and morbidity ; there is n't accountability in the international food aid system to refugees . |
| 30 | The problem now is whether there is n't withdrawal from the very significant devolution which occurred in the 1980s . |