Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina Bellman stars as the girl who may or may not be his demure wife — and who may or may not be a hooker he meets in a hotel . |
| 2 | Sex may not be a topic which the individual wants to discuss , and this feeling clearly has to be respected . |
| 3 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
| 4 | And there is also a problem of continuity ; the original negotiating partners may not be the ones who continue and the successors may have different , even conflicting , motives . |
| 5 | The Chinese may not be the force they were , but they still beat England easily in the last match at Bletchley Sports Centre this week — good match it was too . |
| 6 | Jodami proved he is a top-class performer when winning the Newton Chase at Haydock last month , but this race is no walkover and although Martin Pipe 's Chatam may not be the force he was when winning Britain 's Hennessey Gold Cup equivalent at Newbury in 1991 , he should never be totally written off . |
| 7 | What is suggested is that the supposed right to self-determination may not be the creature it is thought to be . |
| 8 | It was as if she had smelt a meal cooking in the next room ; it might not be a meal she wanted to eat , but already it was nourishing her . |
| 9 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 10 | It might not be the dickhead you think it is . |
| 11 | Surely these could not be the ones he had planted ? |
| 12 | I was thinking that if I could n't be a nurse I just wanted to die … |
| 13 | One of the Sharmas ' own witnesses even admitted on the stand that the dogs could n't be the ones they claimed . |
| 14 | ‘ I like to think I 'm not big headed either , you could n't be the way we were brought up . |
| 15 | Surely this could n't be the woman he had seen earlier ? |
| 16 | They resent the disclosure of inconvenient truths , but above all they fear the disclosure that things need not be the way they are . |
| 17 | This extraction should be by way of a dividend , not a buy-in of any of the parent company 's shares , as the latter would not be a dividend which could be made under a group income election and would be a part-disposal of the parent company 's shares for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 18 | But if these beings had left any fingerprints I had the strong feeling they would n't be the kind you get down at Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 20 | If I cut my cloth to suit popular taste I would n't be the megastar I am today . |
| 21 | If I cut my cloth to suit popular taste I would n't be the megastar I am today ’ |
| 22 | And when my father came he would n't be the father whom I missed . |
| 23 | So if I like you , it ca n't be the angel I like . |
| 24 | Unlike sections 47 and 57 where , at best , the entry into the investment transaction may be a result of the contravention but will not be the contravention itself , the contravention of section 56 does consist of the entry into the transaction . |
| 25 | They will not be the men who abduct children or who are on drugs or drink . |
| 26 | He 's jus just upstai he 's just upstairs so I sha n't be a moment I 'll go and call him . |
| 27 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 28 | And if tutors go on strike because they do n't get more money , it certainly wo n't be the students who notice . |
| 29 | For one thing , there wo n't be the interruptions we get here . ’ |
| 30 | If one can not be the favourite oneself , at all events nobody else shall be the favourite . |