Example sentences of "they have [not/n't] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well maybe they 've not been so they give them so long and then they cross them off the books do n't they ? |
| 2 | And when things have turned up and they 've not been quite right he 's known |
| 3 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Or even if they had n't been well paid , ’ added Tealtaoich . |
| 5 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 6 | The cars parked on the end of the runway did n't help either , but Spencer says now that he would n't have made the runway even it they had n't been there . |
| 7 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 8 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 9 | But then again , not really , if they had n't been THAT close all along anyway . |
| 10 | However , perhaps Dowling and his NZRFU men were taking a sensible step when the included Mains in their plans to improve the media relations of the All Blacks , something which hit bottom during the recent World Cup — and they had not been exactly healthy before that . |
| 11 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 12 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 13 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 14 | There was no inclination to compromise on either side ; the Bishop thereupon declared that the thirty-six livings of the Church of Ireland held by the Presbyterian ministers were vacant because they had not been episcopally ordained . |
| 15 | The two other new jobs went to people who could hardly be described as outsiders , even though they had not been either Founders or members of the Executive Committee . |
| 16 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 17 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 18 | This has been the fate of the foundation of human sociability — they have been comprehensively repressed , because if they had not been then the conflict between man 's instinctual drives and his social existence would have been even more painful and even more disruptive than it is . |
| 19 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 20 | One disadvantage of warning colours is that they may attract killers who might have missed the prey animals altogether if they had not been so gaudy . |
| 21 | Since Christmas they had not been so friendly . |
| 22 | They had not been so good to her ; she had lost too many things , too many friends , too much of herself . |
| 23 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 24 | But it is nice if they are asked , sometimes it 's sometimes they are just expected to do and if they have n't been officially asked . |
| 25 | ‘ School governors have been given increasing responsibility in recent years , but they have n't been adequately prepared and as a result children have n't been properly protected against abuse by teachers , ’ NASWE general secretary Sue Allen told delegates . |
| 26 | Because of the weight of the tiles , you have to be particularly careful if you 're thinking of covering whole walls — there have been instances of large sections of tiles coming away from a wall because they have n't been properly fixed . |
| 27 | But they are aware of the situation on the hill and they have n't been yet . |
| 28 | No they have n't been here at all . |
| 29 | They have n't been here ! |
| 30 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |