Example sentences of "n't [be] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 2 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 3 | At first , Mrs Caswell had n't been all that keen , probably because she did n't want anybody dying on the premises . |
| 4 | It probably had n't been all that good-looking in any case — it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods , cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage . |
| 5 | Well I ai n't been all that well recently . |
| 6 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 7 | Our luck has n't been that hot so far . |
| 8 | By now he and Twoflower were on horseback — mounts had n't been that hard to obtain . |
| 9 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 10 | There has n't been much personal satisfaction for Neil Fairbrother during a Lancashire campaign bedevilled by injuries and under-achievement , but what more efficacious balm for his troubles than a century in the Roses match at Headingley . |
| 11 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 12 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 13 | One fan said : ‘ I have n't been this wet since Pavarotti in the Park and at least the burgers were cheaper there . ’ |
| 14 | There have n't been any major er , examples of er , bed blocking in , in the , in the county , so that part of it seems to have worked er , smoothly . |
| 15 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 16 | , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no . |
| 17 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 18 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 19 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 20 | There have n't been any other erm any other areas er , of complaint with er |
| 21 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 22 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 23 | Oh well that was lucky cos there have n't been any more |
| 24 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 25 | The Atomic Energy Authority has now introduced new procedures at Harwell and say it 's confident there wo n't been another similar leak . |
| 26 | And there ca n't be many better ways of passing time on holiday than a long , lingering lunch at the Vieux Moulin restaurant overlooking delightful Port de Centuri harbour . |
| 27 | ‘ There ca n't be many left on the roads . ’ |
| 28 | Ca n't be many left can there ? |
| 29 | As we now know , there ca n't be many more undiscarvard elements . |
| 30 | There wo n't be many more iterations of Apple 's Unix effort before the PowerOpen environment running on Apple PowerPC RISC boxes supersedes it . |