Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 2 | Or perhaps they were not talking . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it is not . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the target has been badly chosen or perhaps it is not clearly seen . |
| 5 | Fate is cruel , or perhaps it is n't , but it does n't answer to me . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it was not so much my feelings that had changed as my thoughts . |
| 7 | Or perhaps he was n't being considerate , she suddenly realised with a pang — perhaps he had n't made a move simply because he was n't in the least attracted to her . |
| 8 | Or perhaps she was n't considering my words at all , for she said suddenly , ‘ I should stick to clay . |
| 9 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
| 10 | ( ii ) If your salary grade is PO1 or above you are not permitted to undertake extra mural employment without the written approval of your Head of Department . |
| 11 | The word ‘ sparks ’ is well chosen — though whether fortuitously or deliberately I am not sure . |
| 12 | Or maybe it 's not an heir , exactly . |
| 13 | But maybe there they had only a mild form , or maybe it was n't even real polio . |
| 14 | Or maybe it was n't personal . |
| 15 | You 've got to remember — there 's a brain in your head , is n't there — or maybe there is n't , it 's filled with filth like all these dustbins . ’ |
| 16 | What is here referred to as " the same " is not an item , or items , capable of existing per se , but rather a mode or species of thought ; and a species of thought is necessarily " reconstitutable " in different thought acts , or else it is not a species . |
| 17 | I could n't be certain , not having observed him closely before , but either Mr Broadhurst was not like other old people , or else he was n't really old at all . |
| 18 | The audit report should refer to significant departures from SSAPs where either they are not explained in the accounts or they are explained in the accounts but the auditor does not concur . |
| 19 | The audit report should refer to significant departures from SSAPs where either they are not explained in the accounts or they are explained in the accounts but the auditor does not concur . |
| 20 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 21 | The Helsinki session , while welcoming Bosnia-Hercegovina as a member [ see also below ] , decided to allow Yugoslavia to retain its seat , while stressing that thereby it was not accepting a solution of the succession to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | Leibing each claiming a Hurricane shot down , although apparently one was not confirmed , only one claim being recorded by O.K.W. No Hurricanes were actually lost on this occasion , but A.H.Q. Malta confirmed that one Hurricane had been slightly damaged . |
| 23 | I have already hinted that perhaps we are not aware how much religion has become detached from public and modern secular life . |
| 24 | Sir Richard and Lady Isabella now know that perhaps we are not as stupid or as feckless as sometimes we may appear . |
| 25 | But I think Colin your main concern was n't it that perhaps we were n't hitting the right slots and ? |
| 26 | When they appeared before her , she shifted her ground , with an agility that occasionally suggested to Shirley that perhaps she was not after all impenetrably stupid , but on some dismal level quite intelligent . |
| 27 | None of this showed on her face , but a certain rigidity of jaw would have betrayed to the careful watcher that perhaps she was n't quite as calm and in control as she wished to appear . |
| 28 | And then he feels that perhaps there is n't . |
| 29 | Charles got the impression that perhaps he was n't the first to have followed this particular route . |
| 30 | At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture , but a payment of two rhinu left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He was n't as holy as all that . |