Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is what you understand by Monsieur Flaubert not being ‘ interested enough ’ in politics , then I 'm afraid my client must plead guilty . |
| 2 | His comment about ‘ that cat Wilson not being able to handle approval ratings like mine ’ can also be turned the other way round . |
| 3 | It would have been puzzling had Anthony Quayle not been disturbed . |
| 4 | But its limits are exposed by asking a simple question : why , then , should Mr Lawson not be quite happy to see the deficit get even larger ? |
| 5 | She had learned only that she must leave the company soon , Mr Frobisher not being at all disposed to cross swords with Laurence . |
| 6 | On the traditional view of the matter , Mrs Mountford not being a lodger must be a tenant . |
| 7 | Mr Carter droned on about the United States not being strong any more and being too afraid of the Russian bear and being out-traded and so on . |
| 8 | The cause for delays can be numerous , eg Mrs Smith not being ready or Mr Brown ca n't find his key or requires another trip to the toilet . |
| 9 | Had Lady Usk not been sufficient ? |
| 10 | Why has Class D not been more widely used ? |
| 11 | Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress . |