Example sentences of "n't [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you ca n't , you ca n't so easily if you have n't got a better car . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 5 | It certainly had n't so far as he , Naseby , was concerned . |
| 6 | There 's a curtain across the door , but it ai n't long enough so I can see Marie 's feet and her black trousers all in a ball on the ground . |
| 7 | You was n't long then because I went |
| 8 | He had n't much longer before he ceased to function . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel . |
| 10 | Grip is n't merely better than the old car 's , it 's of a different order . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the |
| 13 | For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ That was seventeen years ago and she has n't as far as I know been seen or heard of since ; surely that adds up to a disappearance ? |
| 16 | Its only disadvantage is that it is n't as quite as easy as plugging in a coprocessor card . |
| 17 | I just was n't quick enough when the wretched cow lashed out , and that wet floor … ’ |
| 18 | He was exhausted by his debate on the church I do n't well probably because nobody else turned up . |
| 19 | Central heating That were n't even on when I looked at it . |
| 20 | Brian was n't even away when Bienvida was conceived , but ill with flu and not inclined for sexual activity . |
| 21 | I was n't even here when he brought you in . |
| 22 | I did I was n't even here when you had it like when you first came to this school . |
| 23 | I ee , I ai n't here right when he comes down . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was n't there long before things started to happen . |
| 26 | This , bu but is n't that only because of what they learnt from |