Example sentences of "not be [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pants , she said , had not been part of the deal .
2 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
3 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
4 What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ?
5 There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas .
6 Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] .
7 At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward .
8 It 's not been Bump for a week or two .
9 Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I.
10 c ) The Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than three additional members without voting powers who need not be members of the Society , and who shall serve for one year and be eligible for immediate re-appointment .
11 The Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than three additional members without voting powers who need not be members of the Society , and who shall serve for one year and be eligible for immediate re-appointment .
12 There must not be space for the ferret to get around the outside of the cage and remain free .
13 The meaning of the word ‘ immediate ’ is likely to give rise to dispute in the courts , but it may be assumed that if , for example , a man threatens a woman that unless she has sexual intercourse with him , he will violently assault her in the presence of her children when they return home the following day , this will not be rape under the Committee 's proposals .
14 And apart from his three days in tracksuit and boots getting Rovers Bristol fashion , Allison will not be part of the matchday fixtures and fittings at Twerton Park , the tiny ground where his managerial career began 29 years ago with Bath City .
15 In all three cases , the responses to the public consultation revealed concern that trusts might not be part of the NHS and that services might be fragmented .
16 It is to my mind illegitimate to argue — this is a sale , the consideration for a sale is the price , price can only include money or something which can be readily converted into an ascertainable sum of money , therefore anything like wrappers which have no money value when delivered can not be part of the consideration .
17 The Royal Commission on Legal Services concluded that this sort of work should not be part of the responsibilities of the citizens ' law centres that were proposed .
18 Spitting on people should not be part of the game .
19 And I object to it , as I consider that O S fields seven three six five and six eight six two with the land extending westwards to the A Nineteen , should not be part of the Skelton inset area .
20 Even this may not be contract for the sale of specific goods .
21 And then there will not be room at the head of a reformed social system for duds and vipers like North or Castlereagh .
22 Although Winch contends that there can not be causes for the rules followed or for the intentions and motives of the actors who follow them , other philosophers disagree .
23 Antecedents need not be causes of the behaviour but they help to maintain its regularity .
24 Robin Leigh-Pemberton , the governor of the Bank of England , in a speech in Hamburg on Jan. 22 , maintained that " the hard ecu would not be victim to the pitfalls of other parallel currency schemes because it would be defined so that it could never be devalued against other ERM currencies in a realignment " .
25 The internationalization and concentration of capital would not be material to the control and regulation of corporate crime if transnationals were well behaved .
26 Animals can not be parties to a lawsuit , or be said to be guilty , they can not be subject to the duties that attach to rights .
27 It could be argued that failure to attend for , for example , part of one school day during any particular week , would not be truancy under the law .
28 The mask activates a variety of features , at least some of which will not be features of the target letter .
29 Although the European Community as a body can not be party to the Berne Convention ( since it is not a nation state ) , the Convention nevertheless specifically concerns the EC .
30 Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder .
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