Example sentences of "n't be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 RICHARD DUNWOODY has confirmed that he will ride Wo n't Be Gone Long in the Martell Grand National next Saturday .
2 It should n't be made legal ?
3 So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that
4 ‘ I wo n't be made mock of . ’
5 ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world .
6 Ours ours ca n't be done automated .
7 Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all .
8 ‘ I spend most of my working life wearing clothes I would n't be seen dead in , ’ says Jonathon , seen above , far right , with the rest of the cast of Bread .
9 Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) .
10 I would n't be seen dead in a navy suit and I 'd rather give a peck on the cheek than a mock-male handshake .
11 In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema .
12 The sergeant flicked up the plastic film and scrutinised the tweed jacket and brown trousers with a faint sneer : he would n't be seen dead wearing such clothes .
13 He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops .
14 " I would n't be seen dead on that bridge . "
15 Whilst working on the drama series A Little Princess with a dozen twelve-to fourteen-year-old girls , I noted that although they were all sweet kids most of them would n't be seen dead without their eyeliner .
16 I would n't be seen dead with you in here was his reply .
17 ‘ There are people who say they would n't be seen dead on of these things , but after one ride they 're queuing up .
18 I would n't be seen dead with him
19 And they certainly could n't be called poor , living in this house .
20 It 's not really lowland in south of England terms , but the area ca n't be called mountainous .
21 On other occasions , work is very ‘ peaky ’ and it would not make sense to employ our own staff because they would n't be occupied full-time .
22 ‘ This is a technology , ’ says the UK Genetics Forum , ‘ which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong , it ca n't be put right .
23 No , there was nothing wrong with their uniforms that could n't be put right , as far as Vi was concerned .
24 Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion .
25 But , to her way of thinking , and bearing in mind Lubor 's loyalty to his employer , it surely could n't be considered disloyal to give her a hint of when he would be back from Prague .
26 It would n't be considered fair today anyway .
27 I mean , no , I ca n't be bothered sorry .
28 On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it .
29 Francis said : ‘ I could n't be held responsible for the weather .
30 But he said : ‘ Managers ca n't be held responsible for what players do on the pitch .
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