Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pers pn] not [be] [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
2 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
3 | The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ? |
4 | Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ? |
5 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |