Example sentences of "n't [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't been a toilet yet , in teach of habit |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been a river man all these years for nothing . ’ |
| 3 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 4 | A few moments later he raised his head , to catch a gasp of breath and then to mutter softly in her ear , ‘ There has n't been a day — or night — in the last four years when I have n't missed you . |
| 5 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 6 | I am not sure you were n't doing a little stirring of the pudding , " he said and then went on , " There has n't been a rapprochement exactly . |
| 7 | So it had n't been a coincidence . |
| 8 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 9 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 10 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 11 | Of course if Sarah had n't been a friend of the Princess of Wales the situation would have been far more difficult in the early stages . |
| 12 | I mean it 's just like Aston is , it is , is , it 's , it 's a university but it has n't been a university for that long , it was a technological institute before |
| 13 | And there has n't been a chance to talk … |
| 14 | It c it certainly has n't been a drawback to me . |
| 15 | There has n't been a crocodile there for donkeys ’ ages . |
| 16 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 17 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 18 | There has n't been a longbow on those walls for two days . |
| 19 | At least it had n't been a look of animosity , as before , thought Juliet . |
| 20 | It had n't been a night they had lived through ; it had been the Dark Ages — all seven centuries of them , with wars and oppressions , visions and turbulences . |
| 21 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 22 | But there had n't been a choice . |
| 23 | If he had n't been a detective he might have been a historian . |
| 24 | There had n't been a 'plane overhead for him to hear . |
| 25 | ‘ But there has n't been a storm . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 27 | The dinner with the Schmidts had n't been a success . |
| 28 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 29 | It had n't been a dream , or had it ? |
| 30 | But it had n't been a dream . |