Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You better not be driving . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better not be using any metal in what you 're making , ’ said Mr Walpit . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better not be using any wood in what you 're making , , said Mr Welt . |
| 4 | ‘ Better not be true , Quinn . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's probably just me — you 'll be alright ( you 'd better not be after I 've put up such a struggle ) . |
| 6 | anyway , so we could get erm he 'd better not be there . |
| 7 | Sandy said , ‘ We 'd better not be heading for your place , even if you 've been doing it up . |
| 8 | No , I 'd better not be told , because I should only begin counting up all the things I 'd missed , and you 're better off not knowing what you 've missed . ’ |
| 9 | On second thoughts , though , I think you 'd better not be a chartered accountant . |
| 10 | ‘ It had better not be , ’ Dana said curtly . |
| 11 | This country had better not be under a Labour Government . |
| 12 | Sometimes I stick to ‘ driver — ’ well , I have a cab ( though you 'd better not be talking to a real musher ) and a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence . |
| 13 | Perhaps I thought that if it was Billy 's kid , then somebody had to tell Lucy the bad news and if she was skipping probation , it had better not be the cops . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd better not be lying . ’ |
| 15 | The bastard had better not be laughing ! ] |
| 16 | It had better not be it had better not yeah well you see see how important that I it it on the basis of your voice now you might as well walk out the door . |
| 17 | ‘ It had better not be , ’ he said cuttingly , then shrugged . |
| 18 | Christ , you better not be married twenty years , Karen , you might end up with another twelve . |
| 19 | Better not be one of |
| 20 | better not be one of me . |
| 21 | She better not be ! |
| 22 | It be it better not be and fucking ! |
| 23 | better not be not getting back here at ten o'clock . |
| 24 | All I can say is , I 'd better not be wrong . |
| 25 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 26 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 27 | The mechanisms that might be responsible for these effects are in need of fuller specification but the effort would perhaps not be worthwhile since in fact they do not account for the results to be explained . |
| 28 | THE subject of statutory interpretation is not usually taught in Law Schools , and you may perhaps not be examined upon it . |
| 29 | On the one hand , the protection of fundamental rights is an established source of law for the ECJ , so that this decision should perhaps not be taken to exclude the interpretation that the Directive places the decision on opting out in the hands of the workers themselves . |
| 30 | In the partnership agreement itself it should perhaps not be made too easy for partners to leave , though in practice , of course , an unhappy or unsatisfied partner is a liability whom the firm will usually want to see depart at the earliest convenient time . |