Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [not/n't] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilf Medlam 's labour of love has not been in vain . |
| 2 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 3 | As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums . |
| 4 | Of course the Deputy Under Secretary had not been beyond the reach of Century House while in Mombasa . |
| 5 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 6 | Chris in fact had n't been at the wedding , since Courtney had refused to let his wife Shelli attend . |
| 7 | There , the emphasis to date has not been on regulation per se , but on building a culture sensitive to the management of conflicts of interest . |