Example sentences of "[be] n't [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected . |
| 2 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 3 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 4 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |
| 5 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 6 | She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company . |
| 7 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |