Example sentences of "[pron] [not/n't] [be] [verb] [conj] " 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 | Yes but could they not be brainwashed if you like into thinking well there 's nothing much wrong there is n't such a thing as evil |
| 3 | Had it not been realised that it was the work of a humble man , this poem would be thought a sacrilege and an example of striking pride and arrogance , but instead it is an invitation to extreme exaltation of spirit for it comes from a man who has submerged his ego in the All . |
| 4 | Indeed , had it not been constructed when it was , Peter Scott 's Wildfowl Trust situated further up river at Slimbridge would probably have lost much of its new grounds to erosion by now . |
| 5 | The decision on this paragraph turns on the proper construction of the crucial words ‘ in matters relating to a contract , ’ it not being disputed that the place of performance of the obligation in question ( if it exists ) was England . |
| 6 | Let it not be said that the government rushes into legislation without consultation . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 10 | " Let it not be imagined that grouse are an easy quarry for any hawk to take . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Let it not be forgotten that in the years leading to the war the Tories were so scared of Russia that they missed the chance to establish a partnership which might well have prevented war . |
| 13 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 14 | And he , Neil Cochrane , really did know about such Birds of Paradise , for had he not been loved and betrayed by one , and learned his bitter lesson — never to love or trust a woman again ? |