Example sentences of "n't be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 32 | All this in the most magnificent scenery , a national park where the natural forest has n't been logged for years and grazing sheep is prohibited so as not to upset the natural balance . |
| 33 | Naturally , if he can borrow he borrows ; but that is a lark that has n't been ‘ on ’ in this country , taking one year with another , for the last ten years or more . |
| 34 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 35 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 36 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 37 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 38 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 39 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 40 | ‘ They have n't been in touch with me since so I 'm wondering what they 're going to do about it , ’ said Stuart . |
| 41 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 42 | The situation has n't been helped by the downward spiral of the quality of our native shore fishing coupled with an upward tweaking of many minimum size limits . |
| 43 | I have n't been to an organized campsite for perhaps fifteen years , so all this is new to me . |
| 44 | But when you consider today 's high prices , should we have to pay more — especially when the service has n't been good ? |
| 45 | The product that has n't been absorbed is causing these unsightly specks . |
| 46 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The girl in the mortuary had n't been anything like five feet nine , but you could n't expect an aunt to tell the height of a prone corpse . |
| 49 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 50 | ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end . |
| 51 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 52 | He paused and with a shifty , fidgety look , said , ‘ D' you know what Hatton 'd have done that Saturday if he had n't been killed ? |
| 53 | There 's still some old leaves that ai n't been brushed up yet , so I kick at them as I go along . |
| 54 | It had n't been an unusual day . |
| 55 | ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets . |
| 56 | If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ You have n't been waiting here since school ended , have you ? |
| 58 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 59 | ‘ They have n't been restored or retouched . |
| 60 | There has n't been one yet . |