Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not the Polaris fleet plagued with cracks to the nuclear reactor , and has not the game been given away by Mr. Reg Farmer , a former member of the Ministry of Defence safety of nuclear warships committee ? |
| 2 | ‘ And does n't the word ‘ please ’ exist in your vocabulary ? ’ |
| 3 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 4 | And does n't the Bradford , Bingley & Dagenham have a convincing ring to it ? |
| 5 | And does n't the phrase ‘ in hand ’ have a splendid meaningless vagueness about it . |
| 6 | By conflating childhood with mythic time — and does not the world possess mythic proportions when we are small ? |
| 7 | And does not the fact that God is love mean that when His creation suffers He suffers too ? |