Example sentences of "[vb infin] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physical safety might include not being allowed to wander into dangerous surroundings , or to bathe in scalding hot water . |
| 2 | If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off . |
| 3 | I can remember not being able to get off my sister 's much bigger push bike , just an ordinary push bike |
| 4 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 5 | His self-assurance comes out now in his attitude to school work : ‘ I did not like not being able to answer a question , particularly if another boy could ’ . |
| 6 | on a train , because I 've got a governor 's meeting that day and , and I ca n't avoid not being at that governor 's meeting because I 'm a chairman |
| 7 | Quantity is easier to consider than quality , of course , and I have found that a promotions committee can be thrown into bemusement and mild disarray by suggesting that many of the publications on a candidate 's CV might better have not been published . |
| 8 | Then make sure you know which they are and check them to see they have not been removed or weakened . |
| 9 | At Ruislip , he would have been nominally in a grade one lower than in his Hendon post and would have not been able to exercise his abilities as a mechanic . |
| 10 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |
| 11 | Otherwise we would have not been able to tender . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How could snow not be the wonder of the world ? |
| 14 | We just ca n't bear not being the underdogs . |
| 15 | Now an unscrupulous one will , as I 've said , will pretend not be a trader . |
| 16 | Well I would say Not being a riveter I would think it it did make the job a bit easier for them . |
| 17 | ‘ I can accept not being in the team but I can not accept that , because of the circumstances , I 'm becoming a worse footballer every week . |