Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [not/n't] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 2 | ‘ Nick Faldo is not there to take it easy , but that 's Faldo 's game . |
| 3 | This is a superficial view of psychoanalytic theory , because it fails to see that the prime objective of Freud is not merely to explain the ‘ odd ’ actions of neurotics or primitives , but to use their actions to understand and explain what counts as ‘ normal ’ and ordinary action in Western societies . |
| 4 | Because Earl Thorfinn was n't there to give permission , Otkel had not taken Paul with him , although Paul had begged . |
| 5 | Edward was not only to regain the Angevin inheritance in France , but also the coast of Picardy , the Counties of Guines and Boulogne , and suzerainty over Brittany . |
| 6 | I am sorry that the hon. Member for Blackburn is not here to set the hon. Member for Leeds , Central right . |
| 7 | Although the CNAA was not now to oversee a rolling programme of promotions to the ‘ university club ’ , how much autonomy the new polytechnics would want and acquire — from their local authorities and the CNAA — was to be a feature of debate from the creation of the first polytechnics , and from the decision to set up a Committee of Directors of Polytechnics in December 1969 and its formal establishment in April 1970 . |
| 8 | Jenna slept late and arrived downstairs next day feeling guilty and flustered , very glad that Alain was not there to pin her with merciless dark eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ Feeling sorry for yourself , are you , since Adam is n't here to share your idyll ? ’ |
| 10 | It was a demonstration of what would happen if Franco were not there to impose order . |
| 11 | The brief given to Fisher was not simply to prepare the way for a measure of egalitarian reform , but to introduce some order into the whole area of adolescent education which , given the increase in juvenile delinquency , and mounting industrial unrest , was felt to be a social issue of some significance . |
| 12 | And the Milton Keynes-based Motor Insurers ' Bureau , which is responsible for compensation when a driver 's uninsured , says that it wo n't pay up either because Gooch was n't wholly to blame . |
| 13 | And Lebanon is not enough to burn |
| 14 | OK , Quinn is a diving bastard … but Whyte was nt there to push him this time . |
| 15 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 16 | Mr Lawson is not solely to blame for the uncertainty and muddle . |
| 17 | The concern at Cosmeston is not simply to present static displays but to attempt to bring the village to life with living history events , with crafts-men working in the buildings and with more animals added to those already living at the village . |
| 18 | Dotty was n't there to cosset him , and presently he went upstairs to the wardrobe , where Prue made him a cup of tea . |
| 19 | But all she got were what Foucard would have called stereotype Frenchmen , and Denis was not there to laugh . |
| 20 | But propaganda even on the mind-numbing scale practised in Romania was not enough to re-educate the people rapidly enough , nor was large-scale brain-surgery practical . |
| 21 | Even the return of Hoddle , Ling and MacLaren was n't enough to revitalise a flagging Swindon side . |
| 22 | Three ships sunk on this patrol ; three merchantmen sent to the bottom , and thank God Vi was n't here to see this ! |
| 23 | He shouted and raged and Felipe was not there to help me . |