Example sentences of "be not [noun sg] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 2 | The court held , however , that confidential information , i.e. the questions on the paper , was not property for the purpose of the Theft Act . |
| 3 | This difficulty in the court 's approach was addressed by Scott J in Balston Ltd v Headline Fitters Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 330 who stated that Faccenda was not authority for the proposition that confidential information that could not be protected by an implied term ipso facto could not be protected by express agreement . |
| 4 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 5 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |