Example sentences of "[be] not the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
| 2 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 3 | I do n't know , it 's not the parents ' fault . |
| 4 | What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts . |
| 5 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 6 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 7 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 8 | The change of abode and servants was not the princes ' only misfortune . |