Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 2 | He had not been expecting the change in subject . |
| 3 | The four tenants had actually been paying their rent , but the landlord had not been using the money to pay off his mortgage . |
| 4 | all you have , all you have to say to him is dad 's back at work , he 's not been using the telly |
| 5 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 6 | It is difficult to question the Minister when we have not been given the figures . |
| 7 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 8 | It will seem strange to them that the House has not been given the opportunity to hear a statement on the matter , or to debate it . |
| 9 | The majority of these children have not been given the tools to function as black people . |
| 10 | But the GMC has not been given the power to set out which treatments are ‘ scientifically validated ’ and therefore permissible and those that are not and therefore forbidden . |
| 11 | The local councils in Birmingham , Bristol , Liverpool , Manchester and Sheffield , among others , denied this charge and pointed to several joint ventures with business , arguing that had they not been denied the resources , more co-operation would have been possible . |
| 12 | Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children . |
| 13 | Where the Cleveland guidelines have not been followed the courts have refused to rely on statements made by children during the course of interviews ( Re E ( a Minor ) ( Child Abuse : Evidence ) [ 1990 ] 1 FLR 420 ) . |
| 14 | Firstly , if the decree absolute of divorce has not been pronounced the parties are still husband and wife ( Fender v St John-Mildmay [ 1938 ] AC 1 ) ; and we have seen that transfers between them ( provided they are both domiciled in the UK ) are exempt from a charge to inheritance tax ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) even if they are living apart . |
| 15 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 16 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 17 | Your worships , those are the circumstances I would ask you to bear in mind that this man a ha , has four summonses against him purely as a result of really ignorance as far as purchasing documents is concerned they were in order and erm he would of produced them had he realised what the officer was saying to him and er , that he would of realised had he not been suffering the shock , but he was actually sufferance suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 18 | They were in order and erm he would have produced them had he realized what the officer was saying to him and er that he would have er realized had he not been suffering the shock that he was actually shuff suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 19 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 20 | Despite management optimism , the factory had not been making the goods to meet the profits required , said Mr Laird . |
| 21 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |
| 22 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |
| 23 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 24 | He wished his first instinct had not been to conceal the traces of Tessa 's existence , but it had been . |
| 25 | Most temporary workers were fired as well as hired , and the implication is that if they had not been used the organisations concerned would have had to practise some other form of " hire and fire " strategy . |
| 26 | If the senatorial rules had not been used the effect would of course have been essentially the same . |
| 27 | Readers who have not been following the series are advised to read Part 6 ( April , 1992 ) issue ) . |
| 28 | Those who have not been following the series are advised to read Part 1 ( November , 1991 issue ) since this gives certain background information about the National Curriculum and about this month 's topic which is information-transmission systems . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 30 | The problem is compounded by the fact that we have not been told the prices realised by the sale of the NBC 's subsidiary companies . |