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

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1 And she was n't such a push-over she was going to melt just because she 'd fallen in love with a man with a heart of ice .
2 And if he were n't such a lout !
3 Headroom is n't such a problem , though , and actual rear seat comfort is very good .
4 And now eating is n't such a problem .
5 And now eating is n't such a problem .
6 But maybe that is n't such a departure when you consider that falsetto has always been ‘ a sexual mask … the sound of a woman coming from a man … a way to demonstrate to his intended lover that he understands her fears and desires as if he were female himself ( Michael Freedburg ) .
7 Going to Dundee University , then , was n't such a culture shock .
8 Could n't such a course serve as the best sort of bridge between the two cultures ?
9 I was n't such a fool as to let de Michelet sell everything . "
10 Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it .
11 But his conclusion is that there is n't such a thing as an aphrodisiac .
12 Was it sheer arrogance to insist , ‘ There is n't such a thing as Majorism ’ ?
13 I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint .
14 But way back er there was n't such a thing as a pet shop .
15 There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress .
16 Quite often we found we went to places where there was n't such a thing ’ .
17 Yes but could they not be brainwashed if you like into thinking well there 's nothing much wrong there is n't such a thing as evil
18 Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility .
19 There is n't such a thing .
20 On the earliest journeys of 1825 , there was n't such a thing as a station .
21 I mean I have n't decided whether you are n't such a pig that it 's crazy to get involved with you again .
22 But the female pop psyche was split ; its dark underbelly exited in the black R&B and jazz singers of the time , for whom commercial success was rare and sexuality was n't such a taboo ; it was OK for them to wear come-hither clothes , drink hard liquor and sing about bad men .
23 er , and we were n't very busy , so it was n't such a fag .
24 PRODUCED BY Peter Buck , which ai n't such a recommendation in itself , since an REM by-line has as much rarity these days as a Steve Albini credit or the legend ‘ from Seattle ’ , but Uncle Tupelo are pretty magnificent , as it happens .
25 You 'd have to admire the elegance of it if it were n't such an outrage .
26 Trueman might have done that if he 'd had his way , but Meredith-Lee was n't such an idiot . ’
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