Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clearer view exists of what services are not than of any positive identification of their characteristics . |
| 2 | No , it were n't cos of that . |
| 3 | According to this view the space opened by figural language is not that between metaphoric and proper terms , but that between two or more equally figural terms , which , in Brooke-Rose 's case , are two or more discourses . |
| 4 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 5 | This is not because of any sudden blinding scientific revelation proving that lead — added to petrol to make cars ' engines run more smoothly — dissolves children 's brains . |
| 6 | This is not because of any dramatic differentiation between rich and poor within a given village : the great majority remained ‘ middle ’ peasants directly dependent on their own labour for their livelihood . |
| 7 | While more REM sleep is taken than on control nights in absolute terms , this is not because of any increase in REM sleep as a percentage of total sleep . |
| 8 | At present , many solicitors simply fail to give adequate advice , and this is not because of any immediate fault on their part but because they are operating in units that are too small . |
| 9 | But it is n't because of some secret triumph of racism it 's because the claim he 's making has been emptied of meaning . |
| 10 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 11 | This was not because of any difference in management intentions . |
| 12 | Neither Mrs Longhill nor Mrs Peterson understood what was wrong with Ruth and it was not until half-past five next morning , when the doctor at last arrived , that a name was put to it . |
| 13 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 14 | But it was not until after 1984 and the growing rapprochement and détente between the superpowers that WEU began to re-emerge as a body that could have real value . |
| 15 | It was n't because of any treatment that I got out of Rampton . |