Example sentences of "[pron] not [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could n't you , can you not air off the carnation ? |
| 2 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 3 | Are they not bulletins on the nastiness of mankind ? |
| 4 | Is it not fraud of the most cynical , wicked type that financial advisers are not telling elderly people that those bonds are dangerous and that they are likely to lose their homes within two years ? |
| 5 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
| 6 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 7 | In so far as the population of Africa , and especially that of Somalia , is clearly at risk from internal conflict and where the aid agencies can not deliver any assistance because of that conflict , is it not time for the British Government to urge the United Nations to take a more interventionist and far stronger role in resolving those disputes ? |
| 8 | Was he not Quechua with an Inca name which meant lanza sagrada , sacred lance ? |