Example sentences of "n't [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
2 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
3 | I ca n't understand why he has n't been dismissed , ’ said Miss Knox , who lives in fear of meeting McConville again . |
4 | ‘ Speaking of that , ’ Charity said cautiously , ‘ you have n't been hiring people , have you ? ’ |
5 | two and a half thousand of them were chased and found last month alone so there are something like twenty thousand fathers who were errant and have n't been chased |
6 | ‘ If Harry had n't been rushed off to the hospital with chest pains today , ’ he continued , ‘ then I 'd still be at a loss as to know what my only daughter gets up to when my back is turned . ’ |
7 | A team of more than 50 officers is investigating the murder and detectives say a man seen near the pet shop wearing a fluorescent jacket still has n't been traced . |
8 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
9 | I 'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I 've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which have n't been worn for ages . |
10 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
11 | They have n't been worn have they ? |
12 | Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it had n't been welded together properly . |
13 | She ai n't been to sleep yet . |
14 | It has n't been decided yet . ’ |
15 | Apparently which modules have n't been decided . |
16 | The future-generation operating system , unofficially labelled OS/2 3.0 , will be based on a microkernel architecture — though it has n't been decided which one — will support symmetric multi-processing , and be portable across different hardware systems . |
17 | Other sources say that even if SCO does manage to cut a deal for SVR4 — leaving OSF/1 , the other possible route , by the wayside — its future intent is to move to a micro-kernel architecture , and which flavour of that it might go for still has n't been decided . |
18 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
19 | Er the destination has n't been decided yet I 've got two quotes that were , we have plenty of time to pick that , the buses are booked so we 've got the outings |
20 | Geoff Freeth , another PPF official , said : ‘ Pool has n't been run properly . |
21 | Bumper stickers proclaim ‘ Honk if you have n't been indicted ’ . |
22 | I hope nobody ai n't been swearing . |
23 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
24 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
25 | Oh they have n't been collected |
26 | Dot had n't been thinking of her . |
27 | ‘ We have n't been thinking anything of it — that load of prats . |
28 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
29 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
30 | ‘ You ai n't been thinking . |