Example sentences of "[adv] be n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 'll say well there must be a catch in it somewhere they obviously are n't doing it for free . |
| 2 | And they reckon what , what it , that 's all it 's going to be a three hour test I do n't agree with putting a child of that age through a test I mean there 's none of this nursery pick out who is slow on what , where , why and when , who 's good at something who 's , who 's not so good at it , erm apparently and er , put a seven year old through this exam , find out what they 're good at and what they 're not , well the teachers obviously are n't doing their jobs very well . |
| 3 | ‘ You obviously were n't thinking straight , ’ she said a little scornfully . |
| 4 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 5 | was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money |
| 6 | I warmed to it first of all because , like the Eggle New York elsewhere in this issue , it obviously is n't trying to be anything else ; it can stand on its own merits without any need for the usual identikit comparisons . |
| 7 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 8 | But to be made to feel as if one 's made of wood by a man who obviously is n't made of wood is too much for any girl 's stomach . |
| 9 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 10 | Black obviously is n't going to rival Bill Bragg for 'eart-warming ’ , 'ave-a-go cheery yarn-spinning ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The point is , ’ he continued firmly , ‘ if Kemp is locked up he obviously is n't going to be available to do the job he was hired for . |
| 12 | Black obviously is n't going to rival Bill Bragg for 'eart-warming ’ , 'ave-a-go cheery yarn-spinning ’ . |
| 13 | This obviously is n't going to come up as an issue for quite a long time , since transcribing this 'll be a long time . |
| 14 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 15 | It obviously was n't succeeding too well . |
| 16 | on on erm one side of A four and it was obviously was n't written by a young man |
| 17 | It was the first time she 'd seen him smile and , though it obviously was n't intended to charm , it took her breath away and made her pulses quicken . |
| 18 | Tony Greig obviously was n't seeing the situation as I was and bowled him a bouncer first ball , which struck him on the point of the elbow . |
| 19 | Before I just put the pot it was in , sat it in , inside it , and it was , obviously was n't getting enough water that way . |
| 20 | ‘ He obviously was n't going to carry on with the Seven ; he 'd had his fun with it . ’ |
| 21 | Julius obviously was n't going anywhere , though , at least not yet . |
| 22 | What we had together was n't faked . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 24 | They 're asking too much of one another and just are n't managing to meet in the middle . |
| 25 | Heather Goodchild , entertainment analyst at credit ratings agency Standard & Poor 's , said yesterday : ‘ MGM 's films just are n't working , their debts are running away and they have major problems in their corporate structure . ’ |
| 26 | No matter how talented you are , at your age employers just are n't going to want to know . ’ |
| 27 | Mind you , we 'll still make sets with the old gauge low Bs in them , because some players do n't want to make the shift and some basses just are n't set up for strings that big . ’ |
| 28 | I played football after school but was never encouraged to play it erm , within the school programme , within P E or anything , it was hockey or netball and women just are n't encouraged at all to play football ! |
| 29 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 30 | My ex-husband and I just were n't meshing . |