Example sentences of "[conj] what be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland might order things differently , but in England the rule was that what was not prohibited was permitted and the debate on civil rights was therefore concerned with the balance between the acceptable limits imposed by law and the freedom of action of the individual . |
| 2 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 3 | The exception is important as it avoids having to repeat descriptions on the plant schedule and makes clear what we are covering and what is not covered . |
| 4 | In relation to affirmative action , it was felt that the Act is very unclear about what is and what is not permitted . |
| 5 | On these points we are left in no doubt : he found mainly ruins , and what was not ruined , was in his eyes so corrupt that it needed a completely new start . |
| 6 | But what is not wanted is a housing estate , but the employment that is related to , not Greater York 's employment but the employment related to the level of development in the settlement . |
| 7 | But what is not stated or even suggested by the early Turkish sources is that Fahreddin Acemi succeeded Molla Yegan ; there is , in fact , nothing to connect the two except the fact that Molla Yegan succeeded to the and that Fahreddin Acemi became Mufti . |
| 8 | No it is n't but what was not put was that er if the police had got there a couple of days earlier they would have caught because I was half . |
| 9 | With 115 Squadron at Marham , after doing the conversion course , I was part of the crew that took WF562 down to Odiham for the Coronation Review of the RAF , but what was not mentioned was the cleaning of the aircraft using tins of ‘ Duraglit ’ by air and ground crew before we went , only to fly through a rain storm on the way down and having to do it all over again , when we arrived . |
| 10 | Arrow ( 1984 ) calls the general phenomenon hidden action , since what is not observed by the principal in general is the action of the agent , be it effort or whatever . |