Example sentences of "be n't [adj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each council 's elected for four years , but councils are n't all elected at the same time . |
| 2 | Not least because there are n't any left apart from the two you can get through this column by answering the question : Which role did Alan Rickman play in the film Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves ? |
| 3 | It is all very well for us to sit here and tell teachers to go on extra courses , but they 're finding that there are n't any left , so the next thing that they can turn to the next person they can turn to is the educational psychologist . |
| 4 | So my sisters er When we was coming down the lanes , now them country lanes , were n't all done nice , they were grass , where the carts used to come through . |
| 5 | Surely erm they were n't all connected with the M forty , and I expect possibly others whom should have been invited were overlooked . |
| 6 | The Welsh mountains were n't first explored by alpenstocked Victorians after the glories of recorded ascents , nor , most certainly , by Lycra-clad gymnasts in pursuit of same . |
| 7 | First , there is n't much left of the building and second , some of the aircraft pieces were lost or had blown more than a mile away . |
| 8 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 9 | The latter is n't animalistic gone haywire , but a comprehensive study of anomalies , extrasensory powers , UFOs and such eternal questions as how many bent forks you can stand on the head of Uri Geller . |
| 10 | ‘ But there was n't much left . ’ |
| 11 | There was n't much left . ’ |
| 12 | Nobody wanted any more , which was just as well , as there was n't much left and she could n't face hacking at the carcase . |
| 13 | There was n't much left . |
| 14 | A coffee cup had been knocked off the arm of Fernie 's chair , but there was n't much left in it and the stain would be easily removable . |
| 15 | Yer know , Doll , when I was about fifty , and goin' through you know what , well this Sunday I was feelin' there was n't much left to go on livin' for . |
| 16 | There was n't much left for him , was there ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What do you mean , was n't much left ? |
| 18 | Sos there was n't much left of the seven and six to kee feed me and all that . |
| 19 | There was n't much laid on for you because er I think with new people you 've got ta get them into the spirit of doing something otherwise you sit here , all sitting down doing nothing ! |
| 20 | But there were personal calls to me , it was n't all done secondhand . |
| 21 | Well why was n't this why was n't this done when we were redoing the machine for goodness sake . |
| 22 | ‘ And was n't this done ? ’ |