Example sentences of "be not [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigation included soil gas surveys and core drilling , and showed that modern industries were not responsible.The pollution probably derived from an engineering works that was closed some IS years ago . |
| 2 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for those who are left-handed , a MouseMan Cordless for them is not available.By comparison the receiver unit is a modestly styled compact box with a conventional 9-pin D-type serial lead . |
| 4 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 5 | The blight of ‘ 87 is not media cowardice , record companies asleep at the wheel , callous insipidness , the return of rock , incoherence , a lack of great songs , but rather , a surfeit of PASSION . |
| 6 | It 's not sales technique until he actually gets the appointment , he ca n't present anything . |