Example sentences of "[pron] [not/n't] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 2 | I know this because after my machine arrived , the salesman whose job it would have been to persuade me to buy it , had I not been too quick for him , came to see me anyway . |
| 3 | Will I not be awful heavy ? ’ |
| 4 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 5 | My not being there is hardly likely to lose us the account if Ru — ’ She stopped herself just in time . |
| 6 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 7 | ‘ Even when they 're in England you get used to them not being there because of the matches they play for their county . ’ |
| 8 | They were prepared to compromise because they I 'm sure that you know you ca n't imagine them not being really but because they 're such erm they were outraged at this machine but they were prepared to give it a try but the way it was bulldozed through that once the machine was there there was no choice then and almost you know get going boys get more and more and more slate you know greed they felt the employer was being greedy at the expense of quality . |
| 9 | They retired from active officership in 1957 but it is hard to imagine either of them not being still fully involved in whatever spheres of service were still open to them , including the all important regular letters to Eva . |
| 10 | You get the impression that teachers do have stereotypes about black kids , about them not being too bright at academic subjects but good at sports . |
| 11 | mind you its not been all that long is it ? |
| 12 | Had she not been so downhearted Ruth would have enjoyed herself . |
| 13 | I might have worked it out sooner had she not been so prickly lately . ’ |
| 14 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 15 | LADY DAVERS : Have you not been a-bed with my brother ? |
| 16 | Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say . |
| 17 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 18 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 19 | In our life-long quest for true fulfilment and for happiness may we not be too often diverted by striving for things which are worldly and too easily discarded . |
| 20 | Should we not be more discriminating in our use of questions , statements and instructions , being prepared to tell or instruct if the occasion warrants ? |
| 21 | Have there not been too many people in then ? |
| 22 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 23 | The ground got steadily hillier , and here and there rock outcrops stood out which , had they not been so near to towns , he would have been tempted to investigate . |
| 24 | the will and intelligence of the victim be disengaged from the projects of resistance and escape but that they not be simply broken or destroyed . |
| 25 | than first so he could see Claire with her not being very well mid-morning and er he said er |
| 26 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 27 | This could have been unintentionally hilarious had it not been so dreary . |
| 28 | Now he walked with a sense of fatefulness which he would have mocked had it not been so inescapably serious . |
| 29 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 30 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |