Example sentences of "n't [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fast processor helps , but it is n't the secret of great file server performance — for long periods of time , a file server 's processor will be idle , waiting for the hard disk to do its work . |
| 2 | Are n't the majority of fans being short-changed a little here ? |
| 3 | Leopardstown 's race has n't the charisma of last year when Dr Devious took on St Jovite , but then you ca n't have everything . |
| 4 | Is n't the clue to a murder usually found in part of the victim 's past , or his dealings with people ? |
| 5 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 6 | Well I would of thought so , although today it must be admitted that single people , do n't get offered one bedroom flats , but then in those days there was n't the shortage of accommodation that there is today |
| 7 | ‘ There is n't the depth of strength which you find in the best labs in the States or in Japan . |
| 8 | His mother was n't the daughter of Arthur Naulls but born of a summertime passion between a pretty servant and one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | After a few days , nine or ten , I wondered if it would aid things to pay a visit to Scotland , but I had n't the purpose for it , let alone the money . |
| 10 | But I could n't honestly ask for that because it was n't the purpose of our plan . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , so it was n't the bottle by the bed . |
| 12 | Should n't the rest of the world now actively help these talks ? |
| 13 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 14 | Captain McArthur said , ‘ Typewriters have n't the romance of Shopgirls . |
| 15 | Er would you not say that this has shifted the onus of responsibility very much on to the financial institutions , the banks and others who had dealings with Mr Maxwell , and is n't the judge in effect saying in your interpretation er of that , that these institutions er really have got to show they were whiter than white in their dealings and actually went in and investigated him thoroughly ? |
| 16 | Do n't misunderstand me — this is n't the story about me , so it 's not a whitewashing job . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , they have n't the structure of a lawyer 's work , ’ she said . |
| 18 | HEFTY IS N't the word for this ; it 's epic listening , all 54 tracks and scarcely a duffer amongst them . |
| 19 | Surprise is n't the word for it . ’ |
| 20 | HEFTY IS N't the word for this ; it 's epic listening , all 54 tracks and scarcely a duffer amongst them . |
| 21 | Er and often you 'd go into a quite a poor home and you 'd , you 'd sort of er , th there was n't the money about you see in , in those days . |
| 22 | People did n't want it , were n't the money about , investments I suppose . |
| 23 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 24 | It was n't the possibility of Louis learning of their presence in the town that was making her so nervous . |
| 25 | ‘ Confused ’ is n't the half of it . |
| 26 | Ice-queen Defries is n't the half of it . |
| 27 | But this is n't the half of it . |
| 28 | He is n't the type to be tied down , even by the flimsiest of bonds . |
| 29 | I gathered from Doone 's face that it was n't the type of answer he 'd expected , but he pulled out a notebook and wrote down the reply as given , checking that he 'd got it right . |
| 30 | After all , a murderer and a rapist is n't the type of person anyone wants to get mixed up with … ’ |