Example sentences of "n't be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hanging over the side of the quarry , and she might have missed seeing it if the handles had n't been bright-red . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been homesick either , and get regular telephone calls from my parents back home ’ , she explained . |
| 3 | There are many documents that can be happily produced at 300dpi and either photocopied or short-run printed and no-one will ever be aware that they have n't been typeset . |
| 4 | I ai n't been married . ’ |
| 5 | Well , I have n't been married but I have , did recently graduate , and that was a very important day for me |
| 6 | ‘ No one understands loneliness if they have n't been married , ’ Lady Grubb said . |
| 7 | I 'm pretty certain he has n't been married . ’ |
| 8 | The whole er test of whether this was or was not a successful proposal , was whether you marry the environment and the economy , and sadly it has n't been married , and sadly the Treasury has yet again won . |
| 9 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 10 | I ca n't I have n't been bloody , yeah you have now , I 've still got ta get to there yet before I can bloody buy anything |
| 11 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 12 | They would n't have got married if she had n't been pregnant , so the baby has done something good . |
| 13 | Mr Hogan has n't been used to driving in the city traffic of recent years , and I had planned to go to Dublin to collect the samples of material . |
| 14 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 15 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 16 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 17 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't been absent all that long , ’ he protested . |
| 19 | ‘ What did you do that for ? ’ said Bravd , who had n't been close enough to hear the words . |
| 20 | He has n't been specific yet . |
| 21 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 22 | But Madge had n't been pleased : she had n't shown any emotion at all when Marie looked round the door . |
| 23 | Managers have n't been pleased but I 've done it . |
| 24 | It had n't been real . |
| 25 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 26 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 27 | The cashmere shawl had n't been expensive . |
| 28 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 29 | Too many people are able to , and do say , ‘ I have n't been involved with TOP at all ’ . |
| 30 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |