Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun sg] be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mystics speak of a rare wine pressed in a high valley of the Pamirs of the mind whose property is not to charm the palate but the soul ; a wine that , like the opium of De Quincey , can overturn the sentences of unjust judges . |
| 2 | Describes an allele whose effect is not seen in the heterozygote , because of the presence of a dominant allele of the same gene . |
| 3 | If the plaintiff unreasonably refuses a medical examination his action is not struck out , it is stayed ; but if he continues to refuse to be examined the stay continues and , of course , he runs the risk of dismissal for want of prosecution and , additionally , in the county court , of an automatic strike out under Ord 17 , r11(9) . |
| 4 | A person whose identity was not known to him and whose very existence remained to be proved ? |
| 5 | The file contains a module whose name is not recognised by LIFESPAN . |
| 6 | And remember that if Riddle was murdered on Friday night his killer is not going to be anxious to admit having had a visit . ’ |
| 7 | The execution of the letters rogatory might be refused only if the authenticity of the document was not established ; or if in the requested State its execution was not included within ‘ the attributes of judicial power ’ ; or if the request infringed the sovereignty or security of the requested State . |
| 8 | In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented . |
| 9 | The reason your system is not going mother is because you keep bloody ! |
| 10 | It seemed that now the process was under way her contribution was not required . |
| 11 | The murdered tourist left a widow whose permission was not asked before the work was written . |
| 12 | Gastrin mediated acid secretion did not fall in the one patient whose infection was not eradicated ( Fig 2B ) . |
| 13 | In my judgment its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . |
| 14 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 15 | The fifth client whose outcome was not adopted was a man who was dissatisfied with the service he had received from a computer dating service . |
| 16 | Moreover , some appear to consist of little more than the ‘ active constituents ’ of the dietary regimen we have already described — a regime whose effectiveness is not accepted by all research workers . |
| 17 | You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled . |
| 18 | During this time his daughter is not growing any younger . ’ |
| 19 | Although Bernard again retired early to bed , this time his wife was not forced to sleep in a cupboard . |