Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It provides a good overview of the situation on how irradiated foods of different kinds can be monitored both for effects and to check whether they have or have not been irradiated .
2 Of more long-term concern is the degree to which the frontiers between trade union and other courses have or have not been broken down .
3 2.5.2 within [ 5 ] working days after any such entry serve on the Architect notice ( " Defects Notice " ) specifying any respects in which they consider that the Works are not being or have not been carried out in accordance with this clause
4 449 at 451 , Cockburn C.J. said : The authorities clearly establish that if an agreement is made to compromise a disputed claim , forbearance to sue in respect of that claim is good consideration ; and whether proceedings to enforce the disputed claim have or have not been instituted makes no difference .
5 And tidying up after removal and spring cleaning homes that have n't been touched for years are all part of a normal day 's work .
6 ‘ I 'm slightly worried about people who adopt as a standard things that have n't been implemented .
7 Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ?
8 There 's things that I want to try that have n't been tried . ’
9 There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler ’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All ’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired-up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time ’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure .
10 ‘ The most difficult thing in a situation like this , ’ says Jacques , ‘ is to find words that have n't been used already in a Feydeau farce , ’ as though imitating Feydeau 's words and situations was something that any fool could do .
11 A common example is the situation in which students find themselves being asked questions on topics that have not been taught .
12 Red — rooms that have not been confirmed or guaranteed .
13 That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help .
14 Conservators have reconstructed a third-century B.C. carved-sandstone ‘ coffin bench ’ , and a fourth-century etched-sandstone chapel wall , major items that have not been seen since they were disassembled for transport decades ago .
15 The unprecedented exhibition at the Australian National Gallery until 25 October , ‘ The age of Angkor : Treasures from the National Museum of Cambodia ’ , shows thirty-three stone and bronze works that have not been seen outside Cambodia before .
16 We know of one family collection consisting of 10 pictures that have not been seen by the general public .
17 Often enchanting , occasionally frustrating , this account ( supposedly written by young chemist Jim Elgar ) must inevitably leave many readers wondering which twists in the plot are genuine , which characters are real , which pieces of dialogue are plausible The use of authentic details — such as the likely origin of the Penicillium on Alexander Fleming 's famous plate , from C. J. La Touche 's Laboratory — makes for even greater difficulty in assessing happenings that have not been documented elsewhere .
18 This simple audit , which took less than nine hours , has led us , as a first step , to chase up all notes that have not been received within 12 weeks .
19 In this transcendent land are all manner of beauties , poetry and art and mysticism , and beyond are ideas and places of the brain that have not been explored or developed .
20 Add a few more pieces of grass that have not been boiled : these will provide spores of small animals to grow in the soup .
21 Then I shall examine some criticisms of the monist position from a pluralist point of view , trying at the same time to bring out the presuppositions that underly such criticisms and showing that a clarification of these presuppositions demands a critical exploration of certain new philosophical topics that have not been touched on hitherto .
22 You can then go through the filing cabinets to locate the files that have not been stamped within a given period .
23 Of course the authors are right to list the goals — from equal pay and opportunities to equal political and civil rights — that have not been reached , but I also think that many feminist ideas have entered the mainstream .
24 Other methods of dating that are useful in specific cases include archaeomagnetic dating , used to date ceramic materials that have not been moved since they were last heated , such as the clay floor of a pottery kiln or a hearth inside a hut or house .
25 After all , there are few areas of human experience that have not been written about , and you can experience your chosen one through other writers ' words just as well , perhaps even in some ways actually better , than through your own eyes .
26 There are some books for children that have not been illustrated , and probably should not be illustrated .
27 Thus , our results on pou [ c ] expression indicate that there may be additional ubiquitously expressed POU genes also in mammals and other vertebrates that have not been isolated yet .
28 On canal and lakes that have not been fished since March it makes sense to take it easy .
29 At present about 85% of foreign aid is earmarked by Congress for specific purposes in selected countries : unlucky countries that have not been singled out for earmarked money are vulnerable to savage cuts .
30 So you 're gon na put other people on the th that have not been brought through
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