Example sentences of "not [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts . |
| 2 | Because medical practitioners are either salaried or paid on a capitation basis they have no financial incentive to " overtreat " , and the competitive bidding-up of salaries has not been possible when pay and salary structures are nationally negotiated ( though this may change in future ) . |
| 3 | It was Marshall ( the medium is the message ) McLuhan , the Canadian media guru , who said that the great revolutions in history had not been political or military , but the communication revolutions which altered the relationship between people in society . |
| 4 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 5 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |
| 6 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 7 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 8 | She had not been pleased when it turned out the credit chip he needed to pay her fine was with the rest of his stuff on Plenty . |
| 9 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 10 | First , out of all the responses made , only two participants stated that their attendance on the course had not been worthwhile and none said that the course should be discontinued . |
| 11 | Meredith delved in her plastic bag and produced a bottle of wine and — because she had not been sure whether her hostess drank — a box of chocolates . |
| 12 | This opposition has not been coherent or co-ordinated , and is still much weaker than the centripetal trends it opposes . |
| 13 | They have not been touched-up or doctored in any way whatever . |
| 14 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 15 | Growing deafer , moreover , as they had certainly not been deaf as babies . |
| 16 | At Tankersley , the custom has not been continuous since its introduction , nor has it always appeared on Feast Sunday or even on a Sunday at all . |
| 17 | At the end of the book , however , there are thirty-two pages of publisher 's advertisements , dated 1885 , which have not been tipped-in but bound in as an integral part . |
| 18 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 19 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 20 | For all her privilege and wealth , life had not been easy and the experiences of childhood had left an indelible mark . |
| 21 | Understanding the quantisation experiments has not been easy and is still controversial . |
| 22 | Apart from extra weight , the years had not been unkind although she would n't get away with lying about her dress size for too much longer . |
| 23 | Her forehead shines whitely above the dark glasses ; she has not been well but the resting home has allowed her to visit us for the afternoon . |
| 24 | But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air . |
| 25 | ‘ As you know , father has not been well and Hattie is not the most reliable of attendants . |
| 26 | ‘ She has not been well and I do n't mind admitting now that we were very worried , ’ he said . |
| 27 | He had certainly not been confident when he arrived in Augusta and in the end his suspicions about his form were confirmed . |
| 28 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 29 | Data entry has not been error-trapped and every field will accept any type of entry , even the date field , so it 's up to the user to ensure the integrity of the data he enters . |
| 30 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |