Example sentences of "[pers pn] not be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The request may well have been refused had it not been that western doctors were keen to learn Chinese methods of ‘ variolation ’ ( inoculation with smallpox virus ) and , no doubt , Erskine would advise the Czar to send a doctor to Peking for that purpose . |
| 2 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 3 | Summer would have given way to autumn imperceptibly , had it not been that autumn was the hunting season , and hunting the very purpose of the region . |
| 4 | Please , let it not be some man she had slept with and now could not even remember ever having seen before in her life . |
| 5 | If so , may not this quality have a value of its own needing to be counted in when summing the value of the parts and may it not be this value ( rather than the value of the whole as a whole ) which adds to the value of the whole ? |
| 6 | ‘ Let it not be another year . ’ |
| 7 | If he was an anti-communist , could he not be some kind of spy or agent of the American government ? |