Example sentences of "be [pron] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As to trapping you , are you not already trapped by the past ? |
| 2 | Now how is a pensions regulator going to look at those thirty transactions , therefore are you not effectively saying that the pensions regulator may work in areas where pensions regulation actually works now . |
| 3 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 4 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 5 | Are we not perhaps condemned to periodical or non-periodical ‘ crises ’ on an inverted basis , on a different correlation between production and consumption ? |
| 6 | If that seems too simple , then let me put what I believe to be a far more cogent argument , By bringing ‘ God ’ into this , are we not merely shifting something off ourselves ? |
| 7 | Are they not paradoxically reproducing the laws which exclude and oppress them , even as they seem to be escaping and subverting those laws ? |
| 8 | But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’ |
| 9 | Were they not merely carrying out a required social service ? |
| 10 | Arguably , Macao would worry less about its future were it not constantly exposed to the nervousness of Hong Kong across the water . |
| 11 | Were it not better done as other use to sport with Amaryllis in the shade , or with the tangles of Nayera 's hair . ’ |
| 12 | He it is who not only empowers us to do right , but works in us the desire to want to do right , without which we would never dream of turning to ask him for his strength . |
| 13 | Within these billowing clouds strange and terrifying things are often seen ; whether these are the products of men 's ensorcelled imaginations or whether they actually exist is something not often discussed . |
| 14 | The sort of habitus which , it seems , would enable this sort of accumulation is one not primarily structured by scientific competence but one attuned to the accumulation of symbolic capital . |
| 15 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 16 | Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’ |
| 17 | Is it not absolutely clear that the ’ next steps ’ agency approach of the 1980s proved extremely successful in improving accountability , promoting a better service to the public and giving agency employees greater job satisfaction ? |
| 18 | Is it not far fetched and fanciful to regard lay-offs and redundancies as cleverly disguised methods of electing to consume more leisure ? |
| 19 | Is it not better to use a product with a slightly less than exquisite perfume for the sake of the planet as well as our health ? |
| 20 | For Chambers , his witness of doubtful character , he found this Nixonian endorsement : ‘ Is it not better to tell the whole truth in the end than to refuse , as Hiss did , to tell it at all ? ’ |
| 21 | Is he not here to greet us ? ’ |
| 22 | In displaying the consistency of involvement and leadership in the Conservative party with regard to Europe , is he not finally giving this country the role that it lost with the empire ? |
| 23 | Is he not still missing the real point if he really wants to do something radical to promote opportunities for people at work , and create rights for citizens at work to ownership and participation in decision-making at the place of work ? |
| 24 | Why was I not instantly informed of his true situation ? |
| 25 | While not a new power , it was one not greatly recognised or understood at common law . |
| 26 | This is the ‘ truest cause ’ of Thuc. i.23 , a famous and deeply original statement which is the first conscious attempt to develop a theory of historical causation : ‘ The truest cause ’ , he says , ‘ was one not much admitted at the time : it was the growth of Athenian power , which frightened the Spartans and forced them to war . |
| 27 | And furthermore , went on the priest , was it not so proven by Holy Scripture ? |