Example sentences of "n't be [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 2 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 3 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 4 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 5 | We have n't been out at all . |
| 6 | been out , I have n't been out since New Year 's Eve . |
| 7 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 8 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 9 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 10 | But this one wo n't be around for hundreds of years … in fact , it 'll probably be washed away with the first rainstorm . |
| 11 | Although there are moves to define the requirements for a next generation user environment , UEC II ( UX No 391 ) , which will be a ‘ highly evolved ’ version of Motif , that wo n't be around until 1995 , and there are some more immediate issues that need to be addressed , according to IXI . |
| 12 | Spill says SCO will make an announcement regarding its Intel plans around mid-year , its new-found enthusiasm is a turnaround from last year when it was bullish about its MIPS Open Desktop effort , but seemed ready to leave the Intel ACE version to tread water , saying it would n't be around until 1993 ( UX No 364 ) . |
| 13 | For the time being Microsoft has its guns trained on the Unix application base , but it is taking little or no effort to persuade ISVs to port to an operating system that by even its own admission wo n't be around until next Spring at the earliest . |
| 14 | That box , the Series 1000 wo n't be around until next year . |
| 15 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 16 | It wo n't be over for any of us until the people who make war have been destroyed . ’ |
| 17 | I wo n't be up at seven |
| 18 | He should n't be up at this time ! |
| 19 | He wo n't be in for another oh God knows . |
| 20 | He seems to be enjoying it , but he has a weak chest and really he should n't be out on cold winter afternoons . |
| 21 | I mean , they should n't be out at this time of year cos the you know , the |
| 22 | ‘ The snow-ploughs wo n't be out till early morning , and if you 'd got stuck in the middle of nowhere … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He wo n't be back for another half hour . |
| 24 | ‘ They wo n't be back for another ten days . ’ |
| 25 | There 's an RSPB field-trip — I wo n't be back till late . |
| 26 | Even if she took it into her head to come back early , she would n't be back till half four at the earliest . |
| 27 | I will go out at half past two , well , twenty past two I shall go out and I wo n't be back till half past six . |
| 28 | They wo n't be back till this evening . ’ |
| 29 | She said : " I told them I would n't be back till seven o'clock tonight . " |
| 30 | He wo n't be back until next summer . |