Example sentences of "[noun] not [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |
2 | Omi not being of the school which sits as far at the back of a church as possible , Erika found herself under the nose of the Minister , who beamed upon her , and surrounded by family groups : parents , grandparents and children who made an agreeable din until a small group of musicians struck up the opening bars of the first hymn . |
3 | The reasons are many , but the main causes of your customers ' cheques not being in the mail are : |
4 | Unsuccessful searches will always be faster in a multi-way tree than in a binary search tree , which suits our purpose as the majority of strings being searched for will not be in the word list . |
5 | To be fair on the woman , he thought , had her daughter not been in the house then the mother … despite her rather theatrical tendency to clasp at her side … |
6 | Those with experience of Local Authority procedure , who perhaps enjoy it or enjoy showing off their knowledge of it , then started calling ‘ points of order ’ or complaining about issues not being on the agenda , of being taken out of sequence . |
7 | It 's only recently , of course , that political correctness has demanded that the fathers not be at the birth but also do the right thing . |
8 | I do not believe that the Government would have introduced the Bill had a Woolf not been at the door . |
9 | I can say truly on two occasions " I 'm getting alarmed " and yet the mental events not be of the same type . |