Example sentences of "be n't [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ Boss Drum ’ 's failings are n't just down to him ( Colin actually helps write the raps ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I know some are n't well off , but a hundred years ago they starved on the streets . ’ |
| 3 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 4 | Is that your common experience that that young men are n't are n't really up to this ? |
| 5 | Central heating That were n't even on when I looked at it . |
| 6 | When we landed , the problems were n't nearly over . |
| 7 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
| 8 | Obviously Ted and I were n't always around to scrutinize the intricate excitements of this new love , especially as Dad and Eva spent many evenings over the river in London proper , going to the theatre to see controversial plays , to German films or to lectures by Marxists , and to high-class parties . |
| 9 | Birchall is n't just along for the ride — he 's an integral part of a finely-balanced three-wheel missile . |
| 10 | Apart from anything else you 're seconded to our team now so asking you to leave is n't entirely up to IMP any more . ’ |
| 11 | But their battle with the authorities is n't entirely over . |
| 12 | You do n't have to do it perfectly round because the earth is n't perfectly round . |
| 13 | Franco gestured at his head with two fingers and thumb cocked , ‘ But the bad dream is n't quite over for our beloved Leader , ’ he hit the words hard , for the benefit of a passerby , who smiled and nodded in assent . |
| 14 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 15 | He was n't even up to being works foreman any longer , quite apart from anything else . |
| 16 | I 'm glad Caro was happy then because she sure as hell was n't later on ! ’ |
| 17 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 18 | This was March and I was n't due out until August . |
| 19 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 20 | He was n't often out of his bed now , and David Beaton had said privately to Bridhe that it was only determination to see the baby born that was keeping the old man alive . |
| 21 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 22 | In fact , Henry 's real problem with the law was that he was n't quite up to it . |
| 23 | If she was n't quite up to her other team-mates , her presence there vastly increased her father 's generosity . |
| 24 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 25 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 26 | Caspar was n't still out loose . |
| 27 | I pulled the life-jacket inflation toggle and was very thankful to hear it and feel it inflating — but I realised immediately my suit zip was n't fully up , freezing water was seeping into it ’ . |
| 28 | And we shall get a clearer idea of the time of death when Dr. Blain-Thomson has done the P.M. But judging from the state of rigor , Dr. Kerrison was n't far out . |
| 29 | Mm it might be fashionable but phoo Incidentally I was n't far out with th the age of our friend across the road was I ? |
| 30 | It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off . |