Example sentences of "not [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 2 | Well I , I still do look er y you know but not er m you see last year th there 's not been bargains with erm , who was it who went bust ? |
| 3 | She told The European newspaper : ‘ We have not been neutrals : we have been more like accomplices . ’ |
| 4 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 5 | Political persuasion was required to keep up the political momentum , and given the changing age profile of the electorate — many of whom had not been adults a decade ago — Sir Geoffrey warned : ‘ We 've got to choose the style to match the mood of Britain . ’ |
| 6 | While SWAPO 's decision to opt for English as the official language reflects a wish to avoid conflicts between different indigenous languages , relatively few people who have not been refugees know English well , and this will have to be taken into consideration in teacher training . |
| 7 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |
| 8 | They 'd not been drabs either , those women . |
| 9 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 10 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 11 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 12 | It could have attracted the highest-ever launch receipts if most of its audiences had not been children buying half-priced tickets . |
| 13 | There 've not been trains in Barney for 30 years ; a lot of them had never seen one in their lives . ’ |
| 14 | Many of these had not been Christians for very long . |
| 15 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 16 | No one should ever underestimate the trauma of change on res on residents their relatives and the staff involved , either in the refurbishment programme or in future closers and we have never denied that there will not be closures , we have consistently proposed that there should be . |
| 17 | Such new-style RE must be taught by experts , though they need not be theologians . |
| 18 | Entrants for the Cup need not be members , but the 100K Association will award special prizes for members . |
| 19 | Members of the Cabinet must not be members of the National Assembly . |
| 20 | c ) The Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than three additional members without voting powers who need not be members of the Society , and who shall serve for one year and be eligible for immediate re-appointment . |
| 21 | The Executive Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than three additional members without voting powers who need not be members of the Society , and who shall serve for one year and be eligible for immediate re-appointment . |
| 22 | With professional accountability , there may or may not be sanctions , according to the degree to which the profession can impose them . ’ |
| 23 | So the customers will be myself , Maggie sales people throughout the day and tomorrow we 'll not be customers in any way , shape or form . |
| 24 | Of course , the electorate may not be fools , and they may pass rough judgements at the polls about which party may govern " better " in the future in the light of past performance and potential promise , but there is little point in our pretending that we can " explain " voting behaviour on the basis of the electoral appeal of party programmes even though this is the way politicians and the media often tend to present the essence of electoral politics and party choice . |
| 25 | They will not be roads you or I can use . |
| 26 | That does not mean that people who have recognition as a high priority should not be managers . |
| 27 | The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators . |
| 28 | Reading their lives , one feels angry that women could not be elected as much as not be electors . |
| 29 | The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) . |
| 30 | But no one , and certainly not Mr. Richards , in argument before us suggests that there can not be others . |