Example sentences of "not [be] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's probably just me — you 'll be alright ( you 'd better not be after I 've put up such a struggle ) . |
| 2 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 3 | It might be that the subject noun and verb phrase go together to form a constituent , so you have Florence teased Dougal or the structure might not be that it might just be three separate constituents with no firm structure forming a further constituent , so why that structure ? |
| 4 | It may or may not be that he would have thought it necessary for there to be a ‘ natural resemblance ’ ( such as the Vatican Declaration believes to be necessary ) between the male Christ and the male priest . |
| 5 | Er one question less than five percent it will not be but I do n't want to go and indeed I , for reasons that er David outlined , I ca n't go , ca n't be precise , but er it 's not something to get scared about . |
| 6 | you might not be but I am |
| 7 | ‘ It might not be but it 's the godalmighty truth , ’ he asserted so playfully back that the whole table laughed . |
| 8 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 9 | If they say no , it might not be because they do n't like the sound of it but because their lists are already full and they are unable to take on any more . |
| 10 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 11 | The people of Northern Ireland naturally and rightly reason that if what they have suffered at the hands of the southern-spawned IRA , they have suffered while a majority , how much greater would that persecution not be if they ever entered a state in which they were a perpetual minority . |
| 12 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |
| 13 | It might not be cos you might have got the formula wrong and you 've got every one of them wrong but it 's usually a good sign . |
| 14 | ‘ But what looks good might not be and we can only speculate . |
| 15 | We would hope that that has been defined er by somebody of the hierarchy but , if we 're moving onto new work areas , it might not The sequence maybe self-evident but it may not be and it would be nice to have it written down . |
| 16 | Dave said : ‘ The Tap and Spile legend lives on even though the Greenside will not be as we would like it until mid-summer . ’ |
| 17 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 18 | The text needs to be watched closely for all may not be as it seems at first . |
| 19 | If I do n't make a Will , then the distribution of what you possess when you die may not be as you would wish . |
| 20 | No it 's just tha he wo n't be but he might be doing light jobs like say putting , putting up pictures in about two months er er |
| 21 | It could n't be but it was . |
| 22 | so it would n't be that they interruptions listening necessarily it would just be that would n't expect to have to . |
| 23 | It ca n't be that you have no principles . |
| 24 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 25 | ‘ I hoped that the atmosphere backstage would n't be as I had imagined , which was the typical Manchester Iciness . |
| 26 | Erm , well no I suppose he wo n't be until he 's erm , had stitches out , she said it would be two weeks |
| 27 | ‘ And it wo n't be until I say so . ’ |
| 28 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 29 | He would n't be when he knew what he 'd come about . |
| 30 | ‘ He wo n't be when he hears my offer . ’ |