Example sentences of "n't [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In business , it simply is n't possible to be polite and considerate all the time , ’ he said tersely . |
| 2 | This usage may be dialectal , as suggested by Kirchner ( 1952 : 456 ) , who gives the following examples from the twentieth century : ( 195 ) It was n't pleasant to be made feel like a good-for-nothing little brat . |
| 3 | It is n't strange to be madly in love at the age of fifty-one . |
| 4 | MIPS duly rolled out its Magnum and Millenium systems last week : in the UK , journalists from across Europe trundled in two-by-two as the company treated the press corps to a glimpse of the inside of Ake Larson 's London Ark building in Hammersmith , which is n't due to be opened until next month . |
| 5 | Yeah , but you see then he 's at fault I mean like yesterday he come in he said he 's got to drop off at Milton Keynes and he said I , I , he were n't due to be dropped until what half past ten ? |
| 6 | Men are n't afraid to be soft , girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't foolish to be right , is it ? ’ |
| 8 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 9 | So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more |
| 10 | ‘ But it is n't interesting to be courted by someone you know . ’ |
| 11 | But she must know that it is n't clever to be asked to leave a country while on assignment . |
| 12 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 13 | It is n't easy to be assertive in sexual relationships but it does get easier as you practise . |
| 14 | It was n't easy to be grateful to Nathan Bryce . |
| 15 | Her various leadership positions had already given her opportunity to meet people of power and influence , but she was not so blase that she was n't delighted to be going to Buckingham Palace . |
| 16 | Men are aware of their sexuality in a way they previously were n't , or were n't supposed to be . |
| 17 | We were n't supposed to be friends with people with whom we were doing business , which was probably a good idea , but just the same , I did n't know that until I began to live on Oakley Street and found out that David was very distressed . |
| 18 | He was n't supposed to be in Jubilee Wood either . |
| 19 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 20 | ‘ Visitors are n't supposed to be allowed , at this time of day . |
| 21 | ‘ You were n't supposed to be looking at me . |
| 22 | At this point , he remembers thinking : ‘ Perhaps M. and I are n't supposed to be lovers ? |
| 23 | I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles . |
| 24 | It was n't supposed to be saying ‘ we 've been really hard done by and you 're all bastards ’ , or anything like that . |
| 25 | She did n't mind where I was when I was n't supposed to be working It was natural for a girl to roam She had men coming round , all the time They were n't like Michael . |
| 26 | Specials are n't supposed to be nutty . |
| 27 | But the real problem lay in the dim realization that punks were n't supposed to be at university . |
| 28 | Cos there were n't supposed to be moving people into the flats with kids , you know with them falling down stairs and things like that . |
| 29 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 30 | There was a poet I met , quite young , who had n't ever got his poems published while he was alive , so when he discovered a computer in the office where he 'd worked , he fed all sorts of things into it which were n't supposed to be there . |