Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] not be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother !
2 If your dog has a party piece do n't be afraid to show it off .
3 For example , business schools have not been able to show that the Graduate Admission Test ( verbal and mathematical abilities ) correlates with subsequent performance as a manager .
4 Organizations have not been slow in devising reward systems .
5 The women 's organizations have not been able to work with the communities of displaced people in El Salvador , nor with refugees in Honduras or Guatemala , for fear of reprisals .
6 In the battle for Jalalabad , which appeared to have reached deadlock this week , the mujaheddin fighters have not been prepared to fight as a single force , and the most famous guerrilla commander , Mr Ahmad Shah Massoud , has declined to join the battle .
7 So far , sales of the Packman have not been massive , admits the company .
8 Profits on a £1m turnover have not been spectacular .
9 Two main factors stand in the way of adventurous design , MacCormac believes : ‘ In the inner cities , the cost of land has been so high that individual homes have not been economic ; in the country , local planning committees are one of the big barriers .
10 Such data have not been available for the public sector in England and Wales until the OPCS Survey of School Leavers ( Redpath and Harvey , 1987 ) .
11 Purchasers of health care have tried to adjust their expected intervention rates to allow for activity in the private sector , but the calculations have been extremely crude because local data have not been available .
12 The universities and polytechnics have not been slow to innovate with new techniques .
13 Intermediate Treatment needs enormous enthusiasm , imagination and energy in the design and carrying out of projects , and the necessary resources of staff and funds have not been forthcoming .
14 Hitherto such emphasis and recognition have not been current , nor , I believe , has there been sufficiently widespread recognition of the need to spread the information we have to those who should use it — it may therefore be appropriate to end this chapter with a few rude questions .
15 Jane do n't be nosy , you should n't read other people 's things what did she say it ?
16 There are numerous additional examples of this kind , which thirteen centuries of Romanised Pauline orthodoxy have not been able to eradicate .
17 Compared with the case in which A and B have not been pre-trained , the consequence of A-X and B-Y associations having been pre-established would be that a new response could be acquired very readily by stimulus A without any increase in the extent to which generalization occurs to stimulus B.
18 ‘ American companies have not been good at putting robots to work ’ , says Fred Sitkins , a specialist on robots at Western Michigan University .
19 He added : ‘ Many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost because our industry , our companies have not been able to compete in a fair contest . ’
20 I just happened to feel it because the wounds have n't been healing Doctor ,
21 Gets you , the reason why helicopters have n't been able to do loop the loop unless they 've got a lot of height , is because , obviously it pulls you up
22 But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge .
23 If your conscience allows you to say that you really are stuck at some point do n't be afraid to pass on to the next paragraph .
24 When you draw them at the birdtable do not be afraid to put down any characteristics squiggle .
25 ‘ Since then relations with the team have not been good .
26 However , despite holding on to the Senate for a total of six years and securing further landslides in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections , the Republicans have not been able to bring about a real realignment — a fundamental reordering of political loyalties extending down through all levels of the political system .
27 ‘ These last two days have n't been easy for me . ’
28 The past 10 years have not been easy for the profession .
29 THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees .
30 The last ten years have not been kind to him .
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