Example sentences of "[verb] n't [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So why has n't cricket — our glorious national pastime — managed to give birth to a popular cricket fanzine ? |
2 | ‘ The question is why has n't Durham built them before ? ’ — Every child would be given a statutory right to education from the age of three under a Liberal Democrat government , its Darlington candidate vowed . |
3 | Why has n't evolution produced organisms that practically last for selecting for is reproductive success . |
4 | ‘ Has n't Jacob told you ? |
5 | ‘ Why the hell has n't Harry rung in ? ’ |
6 | But if that is the case , they ask , why has n't Ruth Hilali been touch with colleagues for the last four months . |
7 | Has n't Kelly explained it properly ? |
8 | And has n't Wittgenstein shown us anyway that a concept can be perfectly healthy without being definable , arguing that there need be no element common to all instances of a property ( e.g. instances of knowledge ) other than that they are instances ( e.g. that they are knowledge ) ? |
9 | CGI 's most visible asset is the Pacbase software engineering product , which is sold around the world — but has n't IBM been hammering away at the software engineering anvil for the past five years at no inconsiderable cost in both money and resources with AD/Cycle … |
10 | Has n't Paige told you anything about me ? ’ |
11 | ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’ |
12 | Their ‘ Why has n't life improved then ’ sense of hopelessness points to Morrissey 's overbearing terror , and , for him , it never can . |
13 | Has n't Yunny put the kettle on yet ? |
14 | Has n't Mrs Abberley been keeping you up to date ? ’ |
15 | That 's for a married couple , but er anybody who has n't income , single person , children ! |
16 | All I heard our Johnny saying was , why , why has n't Jean and me have a |
17 | Has n't Mam been on about it every day this week ? ’ |
18 | Why has n't Gildas been here lately , is it because he disapproves ? ’ |
19 | If so , why has n't Tweed been arrested ? ’ |
20 | On top of Arab nationalism , has n't Saddam Hussein also made use of Iraqi nationalism ? |
21 | So but erm Jimmy has n't sort of put it to her yet . |
22 | Yeah , I bet he has n't sort of tried to talk has he ? . |
23 | And why has n't Jack Rowell , the Bath coach , been pushed with the same vigour that Best appears to have been ? |
24 | No , she has n't age , because she thinks she 's she 's been a big girl , and she 's now a little girl . |
25 | Has n't Dorcas told you about using levers ? |
26 | " Has n't Lizzie come back ? " |
27 | bangs him upstairs so that his boots bang against the stairs at every step , he has n't time to put his feet down ! |
28 | ‘ It usually means a court-martial or a decoration the governor has n't time for anything else . |
29 | cos has n't Grantham got the reputation of being the most boring town in Britain ? |
30 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |