Example sentences of "be [conj] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advantages of fructosamine are that it does not depend on the haemoglobin level and it will probably be considerably cheaper . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ . |
| 3 | As I shall seek to argue , the opportunity was there ; and the Home Secretary 's failure has been that he did not grasp it . |
| 4 | How can we know what people 's interests are if they do not act on them because they are induced or coerced not to ? |
| 5 | It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’ |
| 6 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 7 | The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter . |
| 8 | Could it be that they do not have the stomach for the hard grind which seems to be necessary to pick up those all important computer points ? |
| 9 | One reason why we find it so hard to understand the development of form may be that we do not make machines that develop : often , we understand biological phenomena only when we have invented machines with similar properties . |
| 10 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 11 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 12 | Your only defence would be that you did not publish the slander , which in this case would be very difficult , I feel . |
| 13 | ‘ Can it be that you do not remember me , Mikhail ? ’ he pleaded . |
| 14 | Can it really be that you do not remember ? ’ |
| 15 | It may be that you do not recognise the deep-seated reasons why you hold some animals in higher esteem than others . |
| 16 | The difference would be that it does not offer a critique by positioning itself outside ‘ the West ’ , but rather uses its own alterity and duplicity in order to effect its deconstruction . |
| 17 | And whilst it pays to take care , where would any of us be if we did not take risks ? ’ |
| 18 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 19 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 20 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 21 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 22 | The answer is that we do not intend to meet all that shortfall . |
| 23 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |
| 24 | Our main concern as a group is that we do not waste the money . |
| 25 | Our problem is that we do not understand how officials can know whether a claim is frivolous until they have looked at it . |
| 26 | The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work . |
| 27 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 28 | The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope . |
| 29 | The difficulty with these two studies , unfortunately , is that we do not know how many patients ended up with a definite myocardial infarction ; an initial electrocardiogram only was used . |
| 30 | The truth of the matter is that we do not know how — in any meaningful , scientific , experimentally demonstrable sense — advertising works . |