Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm erm , A ten it the there 's various units and as a unit erm are the family and I felt that perhaps at that stage are you not on the family and what it 's about . |
| 2 | Are we not by the use of the methods of non-cooperation and civil disobedience , forcing a government to act contrary to its wishes ? |
| 3 | Why were you not with the children ? |
| 4 | Were they not under the Cross ? |
| 5 | Were it not for the support of sympathetic friends , the residents in our Homes and those who work in our factory could not be given the necessary help and encouragement to overcome their handicap , for we are dependent on voluntary help . |
| 6 | A similar decision would have come from the White House by now were it not for the delay in finding a defence secretary . |
| 7 | He also held , dubiously , that were it not for the corruptions imposed by state and law , men would develop bonds of instinctive solidarity which would make government unnecessary . |
| 8 | And all of this would be fine , were it not for the questions raised by their art itself . |
| 9 | All might still have been well were it not for the rupture-discs on the vents above the reactor . |
| 10 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
| 11 | The druidical temple which Johnson saw would have proved extremely difficult for me to find , were it not for the presence in Strichen of one of the most useful guiding systems on earth — a group of local schoolboys idling on their bicycles . |
| 12 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 13 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 14 | We would not be mentioning that event in these pages were it not for the misspelling of his name — something confused with a food mixer . |
| 15 | Were it not for the Buddha , |
| 16 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 17 | This might plausibly be dismissed as ‘ Victorian stupidity ’ were it not for the tact that in Britain in 1988 a similar view was actually inscribed in law . |
| 18 | This long experience , monopoly position and continued popularity might have engendered an element of complacency were it not for the enthusiasm and dynamism of the teaching team assisted by the advice and encouragement of industry representatives . |
| 19 | However , I would not be here were it not for the Certificate which I shall outline briefly to you . |
| 20 | Yet chemists would guess , were it not for the evidence of their own senses , that a material containing two hydrogen atoms and one of oxygen in each of its molecules should be a gas at Earthly temperatures — like carbon dioxide , with one atom of carbon and two of oxygen , or nitrogen dioxide , with two atoms of oxygen and one of nitrogen . |
| 21 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 22 | Mr. Collins 's letter to my constituent , which is extremely clear , states : ’ In the case of the rail link , there would have been no proposal to build a terminal , were it not for the need to provide one for the Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 23 | It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) . |
| 24 | This was in fact , the state in which he thought er animals er existed , and it was the condition to which he believed humans beings would be reduced , were it not for the mechanisms that maintain social order . |
| 25 | Were it not for the prospect of seizing the Swiss money , it is doubtful whether the Philippines would be ready to allow Mrs Marcos home this year or any other year . |
| 26 | Clearly there is a huge reward for them in performing these seemingly useless actions and , were it not for the risk of ingesting the wool fragments , there would be no harm in it . |
| 27 | It would be reasonable to suppose that at this latitude the islands would be frozen in for most — if not all — of the year , and so they would , were it not for the Gulf Stream . |
| 28 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |
| 29 | It should be pointed out , though , that were it not for the attacks through evolutionary time of these herbivores , there would be none of the commercially significant heartwoods , latexes and resins so useful to humans . |
| 30 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |