Example sentences of "'s [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See the trouble , the trouble which I found was it was difficult trying , you know , it 's not about dream con you know it 's not about |
| 2 | It 's not about racism in the police force , it 's not about dishonesty amongst police officers . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , son , if it 's not about sex , how to convert your loft into a spare bedroom or a new diet guaranteed to lose ten pounds in two weeks , then this new magazine of yours wo n't sell . |
| 4 | It 's not about racism in the police force , it 's not about dishonesty amongst police officers . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's got ‘ Earth ’ in the title , it 's not about hunting but there is a fox , and I ca n't remember the publisher . ’ |
| 6 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 7 | There 's there 's one , I think that 's gon na need clarifying , and that 's that this course is n't about presenting , er , it it maybe about adopting a selling approach but it 's not about presentation skills . |
| 8 | It 's not about hair or women being shameful , it 's about respect , about being sacred . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not about marriage . |
| 10 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 11 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 12 | So there is some pattern in this spelling it 's awkward it 's not as trouble is English is mixed up with bits of all sort of other languages over hundreds of thousands of years . |
| 13 | times hours , it 's not per hour . |
| 14 | He 's not above silliness . |
| 15 | So that 's that 's why erm the numbers are important it 's not for maths . |
| 16 | It 's not for council . |
| 17 | ‘ We have made clear our commitment to the National Health Service — it 's not for profit , it 's not for sale . ’ |
| 18 | That 's not for publication . |
| 19 | More information will be revealed in an internal safety report , being prepared for the air force , but that 's not for publication . |
| 20 | It 's not for want of trying . ’ |
| 21 | I regret that there is n't a man here who would uphold the opposite point of view and it 's not for want of trying . |
| 22 | But , says Ann , it 's not for want of trying . |
| 23 | It 's not for music it one of those , his machine for work . |
| 24 | the monarchy are non political and therefore , when they choose to speak it 's usually out of a genuine concern for that problem , it 's not for popularity or personal gain because they are there already and , I think that is quite important when po politicians tend to do good it 's usually to get votes . |
| 25 | Oh do you want this in your thing for , oh no it 's not for school is it , no , no , sorry , sorry , sorry , sorry . |
| 26 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 27 | But it 's not for football that they fear — it is for the danger of crowd violence . |
| 28 | Okay our French tourist is entitled to the protection of the laws but he 's not for example entitled to vote and he 's not entitled to hold erm public office . |
| 29 | It 's not for drop outs , it 's for drug addicts and Glasgow . |
| 30 | ‘ We have made clear our commitment to the National Health Service — it 's not for profit , it 's not for sale . ’ |