Example sentences of "is [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 2 | ‘ They know that while he is abroad he can not answer the questions about what has happened to the promised recovery . ’ |
| 3 | That is why he can not rest there . |
| 4 | That is why I can not exempt even the smallest flocks selling eggs for human consumption from our strict testing requirements . ’ |
| 5 | That is why I can not agree with Stephen Spender 's remark , quoted by Ackroyd , that he seemed ‘ blinded to the existence of people outside himself ’ . |
| 6 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |