Example sentences of "[vb -s] not the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old . |
| 2 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 3 | Does not the Secretary of State understand that it is precisely because the TGWU is so committed to effective training and the future expansion of British industry that it is not prepared to give credence to the Government 's sham arrangements ? |
| 4 | As Italy invests £63 per head , Germany £41 per head and this country only £24 per head in the railways , does not the Secretary of State have a teeny-weeny twinge of conscience when he hears of railway accidents ? |
| 5 | Does not the Secretary of State feel any remorse about those figures ? |
| 6 | Does not the Secretary of State realise that thousands and thousands of people who still can not pay the poll tax are facing court action and warrant sales ? |
| 7 | Why does not the Secretary of State for Wales wave the flag for Pierhead and say that the new project could become a great science centre ? |
| 8 | Does not the Secretary of State recognise that there is no confidence in the community in the type of managers he proposes to put in control of the trusts ? |
| 9 | Does not the Secretary of State understand that the people in the Forth Valley health board area will greet his decision with great dismay , especially the families of the mentally handicapped patients in that hospital , who do not have a vote , could not be consulted and who are now greatly exercised by the prospect of being cast into the free market system ? |
| 10 | Does not the Secretary of State agree with one of my constituents , Brigadier Alastair Pearson , who was the regiment 's honorary colonel until 1989 ? |