Example sentences of "be n't [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	True beliefs are n't generally better than false ones in any moral sense : there is usually nothing morally wrong about being mistaken in one 's beliefs about matters of fact .
2	Erm , it does seem to be something of a contradiction in terms there , and in fact Mr Lock is n't here today because his clients have subsequently withdrawn from the er E I P but er it would have been interesting to have asked him the question .
3	And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her
4	I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves .
5	For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure .
6	Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order .
7	Its only disadvantage is that it is n't as quite as easy as plugging in a coprocessor card .
8	This , bu but is n't that only because of what they learnt from
9	Brian was n't even away when Bienvida was conceived , but ill with flu and not inclined for sexual activity .
10	I was n't even here when he brought you in .
11	I did I was n't even here when you had it like when you first came to this school .
12	You was n't long then because I went
13	I just was n't quick enough when the wretched cow lashed out , and that wet floor … ’
14	Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel .
15	Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that .
16	I was n't there long before things started to happen .

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