Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] n't [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silvia had just came through the front door — that car had n't been Guido after all . |
| 2 | I did n't want the child , I was n't at all sure I was going to love it , even — certainly I 'd had no hints up to now that mother-love had n't been completely left out of my make-up . |
| 3 | Chris explained : ‘ The length of this recession has n't been accurately predicted by anyone — for example , American economists were forecasting that the US would pull out of recession in 1992 , but here we are at the end of the year and nothing much has changed . |
| 4 | If your conscience allows you to say that you really are stuck at some point do n't be afraid to pass on to the next paragraph . |
| 5 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry this account has n't been paid yet , but any payments by the Parish Council have to be formally authorised at a meeting . |
| 7 | You mean this ingrate has n't been yearning , dreaming , fantasising , slavering ever since that magical , lyrical , blossom-scented night when first they met ? |
| 8 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 9 | Some members of this class have n't been pulling their weight . |
| 10 | ‘ That lady has n't been reported missing , and she is definitely fully adult . |
| 11 | Such excitement had n't been known in Englefield since the Lowrie 's house had burned down . |
| 12 | The company has had talks with AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories , who were not initially too receptive , although that door has n't been closed . |
| 13 | Despite two written letters to er the District General Manager , that report has n't been forthcoming . |
| 14 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 15 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 16 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 17 | That problem has n't been solved and it 's difficult to understand . |
| 18 | Because she 'd abruptly felt as if her heart would burst if she did n't let him touch her , kiss her , hold her in his arms again , and then the desire had escalated so quickly that kissing had n't been enough ? |
| 19 | that stage has n't been reached you see because you 've not seen him since Boxing Day . |
| 20 | These comments are slightly at variance with the rather more positive reports from the specialist booksellers in The Bookseller 's Christmas roundup ( 8th January ) , although the latter were evidently expressing a degree of relief that Christmas had n't been worse while the CBI survey respondents were , at least , somewhat less pessimistic than a year previously . |