Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 2 | I did n't tell you what Emma thought because I do n't is that a blank page ? |
| 3 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 4 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 5 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 8 | One fan said : ‘ I have n't been this wet since Pavarotti in the Park and at least the burgers were cheaper there . ’ |
| 9 | Eh , I have n't been this week . |
| 10 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 11 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The only ones who do n't are those who do n't want to like Philip Larkin , and there is a sense in which poems have — probably since I started writing — have been lifted off the page much more in the absolutely literal sense , that people are used to hearing them and can read them afterwards . |
| 14 | She had not been that way before . |
| 15 | She 's not been any more so I 'll have to go round to . |
| 16 | ‘ To be honest , we have not been any busier this year but the accident toll has been higher than in previous times . ’ |
| 17 | The Democratic Party chairman , Mr Ron Brown , said that ‘ there has not been such a decision so out of touch with American values since the sale of arms to the Ayatollah . |
| 18 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 19 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 20 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 21 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 22 | THERE has not been much good news for tigers recently , so conservationists are astonished by the noises coming out of Beijing . |
| 23 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 24 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 25 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 26 | Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so . |
| 27 | There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy . |
| 28 | As we showed earlier in this section , there has not been any serious shortage of capital for investment during the period covered by this study . |
| 29 | There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 . |
| 30 | In this generation there has not been any doubt about his identity . |