Example sentences of "n't be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not interested in waiters really , especially waiters who have n't been badly hurt . |
| 2 | Not that it ai n't been nice talkin' to yer . |
| 3 | I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be . |
| 4 | Greatly to her relief , the first visit of the little girls to the hospital to see their parents had n't been nearly as traumatic as Laura had feared . |
| 5 | It clearly had n't been carefully read afterwards , because there are two words run together there , I mean you do really need to , to read things for grammatical errors , errors in people 's names . |
| 6 | We ai n't been 'ere . ’ |
| 7 | The Granada had n't been past . |
| 8 | But it is nice if they are asked , sometimes it 's sometimes they are just expected to do and if they have n't been officially asked . |
| 9 | ‘ She went through a lot that I have n't been through . |
| 10 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 11 | There have been times when in order to maintain that kind of standard , you had to do things that have n't been particularly popular . |
| 12 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 13 | In oth other words , there have n't been particularly good value acquisitions that are strategically suitable for us . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't been up top for some time , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see . |
| 16 | But it had n't been up to him . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't been up in winter but I was on the south-west face in 1972 when we finally gave up our attempt in mid-November , and we were only getting a taste of the conditions they will face . |
| 18 | If tonight 's exhibition was anything to go by , they moaned , Faust have n't been up to much during their long absence and have sadly allowed lesser talents to steal much of their thunder . |
| 19 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't been up here in years . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 22 | ‘ She has n't been up to London yet . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't been up so late since Studio 54 closed , ’ confessed socialite Nan Kempner during a recent encounter . |
| 24 | I do n't know I have n't been up for years . |
| 25 | I got the woman who comes in to clean the hall and stairs to go up and wash off the floors but I have n't been up there myself since the fuzz left . |
| 26 | And it would be yesterday morning again , and she had n't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation . |
| 27 | Some of his past opponents , like Joe Bugner in 1987 , have n't been up to scratch . |
| 28 | Mary Elliott , mum of Paul 's girlfriend Lynne Rootham , said : ‘ If the baby had n't been up , there would have been three corpses in the house . ’ |
| 29 | I have n't been up here many minutes quarter to twenty to five now . |
| 30 | I have n't been up there since I got in from school |