Example sentences of "n't be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S1 : No I ai n't am I Sharon ? |
| 2 | Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that . |
| 3 | The mountain tops had n't been their chosen destination . |
| 4 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 5 | THERE has n't been what you would call a flood of letters following our move to computerised printing . |
| 6 | It had n't been what they 'd been told to expect by the Daily Mail . |
| 7 | ‘ On the house , ’ he finished for her , although it had n't been what she was thinking . |
| 8 | But it had n't been her lucky day after all . |
| 9 | One was the awful unfairness of it all , as it really had n't been her fault that Ethel had cast a bad spell on the broomstick she had lent to Mildred , thus ruining the display . |
| 10 | Though the stop for coffee had n't been her idea . |
| 11 | It had n't been her imagination , and she bitterly resented the hypocrisy of his charge . |
| 12 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | There has n't been one yet . |
| 15 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 16 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 17 | has n't been one published for a long while . |
| 18 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 19 | So , I think we 're no nearer forward to having a reason for the explosion , but erm there has n't been one since . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr. Preston , my life has n't been everything I would have liked since I came here . |
| 21 | It had been a rout , but that had n't been his fault . |
| 22 | It had n't been his fault that Bill Morgan , the vehicle examiner , had chosen to come in open-necked shirt and corduroys ; neither he nor Dom had cared a damn what their guests chose to wear . |
| 23 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |
| 24 | After all it had n't been his fault that Ianthe was in bed with ‘ flu . |
| 25 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 26 | If it had n't been she would probably have dropped it on the way here . |
| 27 | Oh you have n't been your wearing your glasses ! |
| 28 | There has n't been anyone on it for thousands of years ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Has n't been anyone for months , really , Frances . |
| 30 | Perhaps there had n't been anyone there , after all . |