Example sentences of "n't be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't been dope it would have been valium : what 's the difference ? |
| 2 | They have n't been champions for 26 years and it could be another 26 before they win it again . |
| 3 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 4 | If it had n't been Mario , you 'd have thought it was schmaltz ; with Mario , it was peppered with self-irony , with seriousness , punctuated with laughter , with suddenly remembered incidents . |
| 5 | he knows his name , you ai n't been walkies today have you ? |
| 6 | He had n't been gardening , but happened to be wearing his casual clothes . |
| 7 | Not that there have n't been mornings when he 'd rather have stayed in bed . |
| 8 | There has n't been any attempt about savings , or reduced commitments or any , or everything is here , and if it has n't been attempts , perhaps we could have a list of what 's actually been removed . |
| 9 | Carbon monoxide has no smell and if your appliance has n't been services for some time you may now be in danger . |
| 10 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 11 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The need for development has to be established and so erm I refute the fact totally that there has n't been pressure for development in the countryside , that 's certainly not the case . |
| 15 | If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way . |
| 16 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 17 | There has n't been time , ’ she said . |
| 18 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 19 | There had n't been time , on Heaven , for the two women to get to know each other . |
| 20 | I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night . |
| 21 | ‘ I have written to Joe about it , ’ Maureen said , ‘ but there has n't been time for a reply yet . ’ |
| 22 | I think he was an amateur who either thought he 'd succeeded or else was so nervous about what he was doing that he left knowing there had n't been time to kill you . ’ |
| 23 | There had n't been time to get Maxim 's name on the usual notice of forthcoming visitors to the embassy ; she had been signalled by the Security Service who shared the Steering Committee 's deep distrust of the visit and wanted her to debrief him after his meeting . |
| 24 | There had n't been time on the way up to ask him what the results of the tests had been or what the union had consequently decided . |
| 25 | If it has n't been invaders from without it 's been subversion from within . |
| 26 | Oh I I would be it would be nonsense to say that there has n't been failings of the system , sometimes through the carelessness of an officer , sometimes , certainly in the initial stage , because of their lack of awareness of the er provisions of the act . |
| 27 | And there may be many others but they have n't been discarvard ’ . |
| 28 | There has n't been duty on books since 1860 , when it was seen as a tax on knowledge . |
| 29 | There has n't been duty on books for more than a hundred and thirty years , in 1860 it was seen as a tax on knowledge and abolished . |
| 30 | Silvia had just came through the front door — that car had n't been Guido after all . |