Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was thinking that if I could n't be a nurse I just wanted to die … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 's jus just upstai he 's just upstairs so I sha n't be a moment I 'll go and call him . |
| 7 | 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 . |