Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | They 've not been tested solely on that , but it 's on the question . |
2 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
3 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
4 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
5 | Such extensive managerial powers had not been built in to any of the LEA pilot schemes of financial delegation in existence before 1988 although schools ' experiences had often entailed a change in managerial approach ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
6 | Elected as President in 1987 amid controversy over his war record while serving in the German Army , Waldheim had not been received officially by any Western country , and the World Jewish Congress criticized Kohl for his " shocking lack of moral sensitivity " in breaching this de facto Western diplomatic boycott . |
7 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
8 | It is important to distinguish between such lexical analysis of uncontrolled terms in thesis titles , ( which has not been carried out in any detail in the present study but which is one of the factors analysed in a paper in preparation by the author ) , and the subject classification carried out by Rolfe , Will and in the Laming list . |
9 | It is encouraging too that these links have not been restricted only to those centres which themselves offer both SCOTVEC advanced courses and degrees . |
10 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
11 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
12 | This question has not been taken up in any serious way . |
13 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
14 | I can not imagine why the Conservatives have not been campaigning harder on this issue . |
15 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
16 | It was in the very nature of the constantly growing working class that full socialist consciousness , full understanding of the revolutionary destiny of the proletariat , could not be achieved simultaneously by all sections . |
17 | Every Home has its own way of doing things , and yours may not be run exactly along these lines . |
18 | There is still some water in storage but it can not be pumped out without this effect on the environment . |
19 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
20 | If the new liberals have their way , the law can not be credited even with such a modest achievement . |
21 | An element is a pure substance which can not be split up into any simpler pure substance . |
22 | Intermediate development versions introduced to the database by latest selection are not referenced by any package and therefore can not be sent offline in this fashion . |
23 | Although land-use decisions are made by the household , these may well not be made equally by all members of it , and this may be significant in the perception of conservation and any government sponsored conservation programme . |
24 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
25 | As this has been discussed in section 5.3.1 , it will not be examined again in this section , which will concentrate on the local , though widespread , environmental change that occurs as a result of tropical deforestation and its often adverse economic consequences . |
26 | Although some differences appear to stem more or less directly from inequalities in wealth and power , others appear to be associated with attitudes and values which can not be related directly to such inequalities ; an example is the preference of British working-class mothers for bottle-feeding rather than breast-feeding their babies . |
27 | This , however , will not be tolerated even by those who call themselves the centre , and a major split will become unavoidable . |
28 | These too may be unrepresentative , since very expensive ‘ big science ’ projects make disproportionate demands on funding , and scientists can not be defined simply as those people in receipt of research grants . |
29 | History can not be done away with any more than metaphysics : but its conditions of impossibility are also necessarily its conditions of possibility . |
30 | Our data can not be compared directly to those of other investigators because the reported frequencies of human papillomavirus in cervical lesions vary widely because of differences in selecting patients , in the materials analysed , in detection techniques , and in the geographical occurrence of virus types . |