Example sentences of "n't be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
2 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
3 | I ca n't understand why he has n't been dismissed , ’ said Miss Knox , who lives in fear of meeting McConville again . |
4 | two and a half thousand of them were chased and found last month alone so there are something like twenty thousand fathers who were errant and have n't been chased |
5 | ‘ If Harry had n't been rushed off to the hospital with chest pains today , ’ he continued , ‘ then I 'd still be at a loss as to know what my only daughter gets up to when my back is turned . ’ |
6 | A team of more than 50 officers is investigating the murder and detectives say a man seen near the pet shop wearing a fluorescent jacket still has n't been traced . |
7 | I 'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I 've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which have n't been worn for ages . |
8 | ‘ Naturally these past few years it has n't been worn . |
9 | They have n't been worn have they ? |
10 | Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it had n't been welded together properly . |
11 | It has n't been decided yet . ’ |
12 | Apparently which modules have n't been decided . |
13 | The future-generation operating system , unofficially labelled OS/2 3.0 , will be based on a microkernel architecture — though it has n't been decided which one — will support symmetric multi-processing , and be portable across different hardware systems . |
14 | Other sources say that even if SCO does manage to cut a deal for SVR4 — leaving OSF/1 , the other possible route , by the wayside — its future intent is to move to a micro-kernel architecture , and which flavour of that it might go for still has n't been decided . |
15 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
16 | Er the destination has n't been decided yet I 've got two quotes that were , we have plenty of time to pick that , the buses are booked so we 've got the outings |
17 | Geoff Freeth , another PPF official , said : ‘ Pool has n't been run properly . |
18 | Bumper stickers proclaim ‘ Honk if you have n't been indicted ’ . |
19 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
20 | Oh they have n't been collected |
21 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
22 | He had n't been shot , if that is what you 're asking and that is what I think you are asking . |
23 | Obviously the owner of the cottage had never been burgled and did n't really believe that it might happen ; there was a new-looking bolt at the bottom of the kitchen door that had n't been shot . |
24 | I think there was a corner in the market that had n't been filled and we were there to do it . |
25 | Well , we recognized that two three years ago but it has n't been filled yet |
26 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
27 | I have n't been gassed yet anyway , so I do n't think any gas or anything 's coming out . |
28 | It too is separated from the main island by a very similar chasm — which has n't been bridged — and it too has a large puffin colony . |
29 | The fungi have n't been attended to for decades and , warped by the magic of the Castle , have changed considerably . |
30 | But I do n't see that that 's any reason why the mail has n't been attended to . ’ |