Example sentences of "[adv] be [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , those calories which are being flushed away are not being used by the body … which means that the body is having to use more of its own surplus fat to make up for them . |
| 2 | Ergs were there aplenty : they just were n't being channelled anywhere . |
| 3 | Insurance experts warn that many properties have been hit by subsidence , but fewer cases are spotted because homes are not changing hands and therefore are not being surveyed . |
| 4 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 5 | This point should not be pushed to perversity : the IMF is still clear that a US-style deficit is worse , and it certainly is not being quickly corrected . |