Example sentences of "[pron] not [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | killed to pickle see its not is it mum ? |
| 2 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 3 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 4 | Theresa are we not are we not missing out with this legislation are we not missing out on a little thing called compassion ? |
| 5 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
| 6 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 7 | People in literature departments are not used to handling ideas , it not being their métier , and traditionally they were not required to , beyond such elementary tokens as the Elizabethian World Picture or the Death of God . |
| 8 | It could , could it not be anybody ? |
| 9 | His not being my ‘ class ’ . |
| 10 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |