Example sentences of "[not/n't] be for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She ai n't been for long while has she ? |
| 32 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 33 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 34 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 35 | I have n't been for three years . |
| 36 | You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days . |
| 37 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 38 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 39 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 40 | It wo n't be for another month . |
| 41 | You 're growing up , yes , but you 're not grown-up and you wo n't be for some time , and in the meantime you 're still my girl . |