Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Victoria thinks that I am not sufficiently in love with her to want children . |
| 3 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 4 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 5 | This is in contrast to section 18 , which permits the defendant to claim that he was not aware that his words were threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 6 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 7 | Our modern picture of the universe dates back to only 1924 , when the American astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that ours was not the only galaxy . |
| 8 | I figured out that if this is what David wants and I 'm not going to give it to him . |
| 9 | Leading questions may be asked : for example , if the defendant says that he was not carrying a mackintosh , he can later be asked whether his host put his mackintosh on a peg in the hall or where else ? |
| 10 | The Opposition pooh-pooh the matter and the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook says that it is not really a problem and that the numbers are going down . |
| 11 | Jane Pargeter was determined to look relaxed , Dexter thought , even though the number of times she kept bobbing her mouth down to sip her tea showed that she was not . |
| 12 | It was very much part of the evidence that the banks ( although Union Discount 's expert witness claimed that they were not a bank ) continued to discount bills presented by Berg , despite the fact that Berg 's 1983 accounts were late and that the only accounts of record [ 1982 ] showed net assets of only about £250,000 against potential exposures measuring many millions . |
| 13 | Referees complain that they are not notified of their match performance markings made by club managers . |
| 14 | Those Conservative Members and the electorate know that we are not to blame for the mess that we are in . |
| 15 | In response to a letter from the Law Society , the Revenue states that it is not possible to set hard and fast rules to determine whether a payment made to an employee who intends to seek further employment will be treated as made in connection with retirement . |
| 16 | This practice was stopped after review indicated that it was not of diagnostic value in our hands . |
| 17 | ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't an easy task and shows members of the public it is not just fires the fire brigade attends and it is not just cats and dogs that vets deal with . ’ |
| 19 | Edward indicated that he was not committed to Balliol 's cause , and the arrival of Balliol at Carlisle as a fugitive must have made both king and parliament have second thoughts about his value as an ally . |
| 20 | Much of the east coast of England is formed of Pleistocene deposits which yield rapidly to wave action provided that they are not protected by natural constructional forms or by artificial defences , such as breakwaters and groynes . |
| 21 | Like any other book , however , they are listed in the catalogue , where they usually bear some distinctive mark such as R indicating that they are not available on loan . |
| 22 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 23 | You can be more confident that a negative test result means that you are not infected if you do n't put yourself at risk of infection through unsafe sex or by sharing injecting equipment in the three months before taking the test . |
| 24 | She has to go every so many months to check that they 're not reoccurring , but apart from that she is , she 's quite er , she 's quite good , quite active minded cos playing go bowls and |
| 25 | The fact that the specialist literature ( for example , IRS , 1986a ) continues to make repeated reference to the particular practices of a rather limited number of organizations implies that it is not , as yet , a particularly common one . |
| 26 | Cobalt retorted that it was not an amusing thing to do , pointing a gun at people , and he could not see what Maurin found so funny . |
| 27 | In press interviews on April 12 and 14 Mitterrand said that he was not among those who agreed with demands for a Kurdish state . |
| 28 | Travers realizes that he is not as skilled as these two and returns home to his wife , Marie , and a more honest way of making a living . |
| 29 | Tall and slim , without the usual broad shoulders of the pace man , he had excelled at athletics as a youngster , with the result that he was a fast bowler like virtually no other ; his approach to the wicket was so soft and silky that he hardly seemed to touch the ground at all , and several umpires said that they were not able to hear him running in . |
| 30 | Her eyes strained but it was not repeated . |