Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has not been explained how they were able to do so without taking any instructions from Mrs. Steed , but it has not been suggested that Mrs. Steed authorised them to do so . |
| 2 | Of course , the apparent paradox vanishes once we realize that in advanced industrial economies superego controls on behaviour may not be optional if public order , production and economic surpluses are to be defended , and that if these controls can not be procured internally they will be externalized in the organs of the police state . |
| 3 | As religious beliefs can not be proved scientifically they are to be doubted , for it is assumed that religion is just a matter of subjective opinion . |
| 4 | Mr Rampton asked Lord Aldington why he had ordered on 17 May 1945 that the Yugoslavs not be told where they were going , and whether they had been falsely told they were going to Italy . |
| 5 | It had n't been registered so they 'd got , the police have got no way of tracing it . |
| 6 | If they could n't be destroyed then they must be neutralized or kept in a stage of siege . |