Example sentences of "[vb -s] n't be " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Thank God there has n't is what you ought to say . " |
| 2 | Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder . |
| 3 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 4 | And we ca n't light a fire , the chimney has n't been swept . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What you have to do if there is an accident — and there has n't been one , thank heavens — is keep the spilled PCBs out of watercourses , because they would accumulate in the fat of organisms which came into contact with them . |
| 6 | That has n't been sold ’ . |
| 7 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 8 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But when you consider today 's high prices , should we have to pay more — especially when the service has n't been good ? |
| 14 | The product that has n't been absorbed is causing these unsightly specks . |
| 15 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There has n't been one yet . |
| 18 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 19 | Coloured , bleached , stonewashed , there 's little that has n't been done to denim . |
| 20 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 21 | It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’ |
| 22 | It 's been very gratifying to win these last two trophies — yet disappointing that there has n't been improvement in the general standard of our girls ’ tennis afterwards . ’ |
| 23 | It has n't been easy . |
| 24 | It 's something quite beyond and more complicated than ‘ adolescence ’ , something that has n't been thought out yet , but should n't be dismissed as ‘ adolescent' ’ . ' |
| 25 | That money and other needed support just has n't been forthcoming , and because of that the deserts continue to advance . |
| 26 | ‘ She has n't been in at all this week . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Angela 's taking a few days off — she has n't been well , ’ he said , easily . |
| 28 | Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series . |
| 29 | Has n't been announced yet . ’ |
| 30 | Ironically , the only current movie which really is like a classic ghost story has n't been hyped as part of the fad . |