Example sentences of "n't be " in BNC.
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| 1 | S1 : No I ai n't am I Sharon ? |
| 2 | I have n't been doing much baking lately . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't been sleeping well , lately . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Iverson had n't been beastly to Miss Amy hall , I take it ? ’ |
| 5 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 6 | Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder . |
| 7 | We have n't been able to locate anyone who makes exactly that bird house ( it may even have been especially made ) . |
| 8 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 9 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ said Lucy , ‘ I have n't been fair to you . |
| 11 | Thirdly , the coach is in the business of picking winners , not his friends , so if you have n't been selected , you have to admit to yourself that perhaps you did n't deserve to be . |
| 12 | I have n't been in the least difficult about your doing all that sewing . |
| 13 | ‘ Amanda , I have n't been sleeping well . ’ |
| 14 | And we ca n't light a fire , the chimney has n't been swept . ’ |
| 15 | Here , you have n't been drinking . ’ |
| 16 | I continue to be surprised all those little panes of glass have n't been smashed in , but a metal door comes down at night and the neighbourhood is full of tourists anyway . |
| 17 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | That has n't been sold ’ . |
| 20 | At which poor Jack Rogers — a former bricklayer and union leader , and the member of the executive taking the can back as he replied to the debate — innocently protested they had n't been drunk , they had n't even had a cup of tea . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 22 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 23 | ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do . |
| 24 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 25 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 26 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 27 | Mr Healey said that Labour , always having had a majority of men , would have won every election since 1922 if women had n't been given the vote . |
| 28 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 29 | Surely the old Frenchman and his family have n't been killed ! |
| 30 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |