Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] n't [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your steel-mesh underflesh has n't quite knitted properly . |
| 2 | The value of Mrs Alliss 's award has n't yet been decided , but lawyers expect it to be ’ substantial ’ . |
| 3 | The Renault Clio is this year 's European Car of the Year but the award has n't always been a guarantee of outstanding sales success . |
| 4 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 5 | My mum has n't even noticed yet . |
| 6 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 8 | ‘ My mind has n't always been focused on this operation as fully as it should have been . ’ |
| 9 | But gossip has n't always had such bad press . |
| 10 | But football has n't always landed the 6ft 3in ‘ keeper so squarely on his feet three frustrating years at Spurs left him ‘ thoroughly pigged off ’ he admits . |
| 11 | Officers investigating her death say they 're keeping their options open … and they say crime has n't yet been ruled out . |
| 12 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 13 | Fortunately the actress has n't ever faced the situation for real . |
| 14 | ‘ You look quite tired , and term has n't even started . |
| 15 | Since being a Magpies fan has n't exactly been a bundle of laughs of late , his timing as ever was perfect . |
| 16 | The problem certainly runs in families , although research has n't yet identified a genetic basis . |
| 17 | But today 's demonstration did n't quite go to plan . |
| 18 | Bonanza did n't even bother to look at Jackson . |
| 19 | Any purely dog-orientated career opportunities within the association do n't really exist . |
| 20 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
| 21 | The vast majority of mammals and the vast majority of birds do n't use echolocation , and it is highly probable that their common ancestor did n't either ( nor did it fly — that is another technology that has been independently evolved several times ) . |
| 22 | One version circulating at the Palace is that Her Majesty realised that Her Other Majesty did n't yet know the result when she arrived for their weekly get-together . |
| 23 | Her conscious mind did n't even register it , nor the weeds of blue awareness that tangled at the edge of her mind . |
| 24 | The guys running the club do n't really know what they 're doing . |
| 25 | The jogging did n't really help his writing . |
| 26 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 27 | In Ireland , where the rugby population is , even at the most optimistic estimate , around a mere 20,000 , the base of the pyramid is obviously narrow and talent does n't just grow on trees . |
| 28 | Talent does n't necessarily mean facility . |
| 29 | Talent does n't always come in huge packages — remember Mark Todd 's brilliant event horse Charisma , who was only 15.3hh ? |
| 30 | Another group of researchers , this time in Sweden , has discovered that this protective effect does n't only last for as long as the baby is breastfed . |