Example sentences of "not be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A representative of the 15-member Commonwealth observer group said that the elections had been free and fair , although the process had not been without incident and there were imperfections in the electoral lists . |
| 2 | These initiatives , however , have not been without criticism . |
| 3 | We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do . |
| 4 | The anti-papal propaganda of the preceding twenty years had not been without effect , but more importantly there remained considerable anxiety about the new queen 's plans for the vast amount of ecclesiastical land which had been acquired by the laity . |
| 5 | Maybe , as William strongly suspected , this first communion between the rat and the marmot had not been without violence and rattus rattus , being the little fucker he was , had savagely copulated with the small , pretty , squirrel-like creature — and then torn her throat out . |
| 6 | Fuchs 's career as a museum director has not been without controversy . |
| 7 | The resurrection has not been without pain , however . |
| 8 | It 's not been without pain and I pay tribute to our staff 's willingness to embrace the changes that we 've had to make . |
| 9 | A correspondent from the Financial Times reported after a visit to Battambang on Jan. 24 that the city " is not , and has not been under siege " . |
| 10 | It must have been clear to the Prussian government that if it had not been for government subsidy the Junker estates would have collapsed under their own weight long ago , but they were nevertheless incapable of striking at what they saw to be the basis and guarantor of their state and society . |
| 11 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 12 | Although the Church was slow off the mark following the population migration and concentration in the expanding towns during the Industrial Revolution , failure has not been for want of trying . |
| 13 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 14 | Had it not been for Unish and Belig and a few others , we would be there still . |
| 15 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 16 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 17 | Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow . |
| 18 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 19 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 20 | He would have lived a long and full life had it not been for Flodden . ’ |
| 21 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 22 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 23 | Someone 's got to tell her the boy 's not been at school , is n't at home , ’ Gabriel said , as if that was what it was all about . |
| 24 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 25 | but he , he , I mean we 've not seen him he 's been away four years , I know he 's been coming home first , for holidays , visit , but he 's not been at home because , well we moved into that house , if you remember we moved |
| 26 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 27 | Even if you decide you have not been at risk in the past , you seriously need to consider safer sex to protect yourself and your partners in the future from HIV . |
| 28 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 29 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 30 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |