Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] be not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nights when clubs are n't on or discos are n't on you get bored . |
| 2 | We can not in justice omit to mention the establishing of the Publick Botanick Garden at Chelsea by the Worshipful Company of the Apothecaries of London , not only for the instruction of such as should be employed in the compounding of medicines , in the particular simples therein used ( which alone is a very laudable design ) but also for introducing still a greater variety of trees and plants , which although their virtues or uses are not at present known , yet may hereinafter be found of excellent use for many purposes in life . |
| 3 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 4 | There were no signposts and maps were not to be trusted , but the greatest hazard he encountered was a swarm of locusts which had taken possession of five miles of the road . |
| 5 | This year 's Climb for the World weekend in early June dawned misty and rainy but thousands of walkers and climbers were not to be put off . |
| 6 | The letter said that collegiality was novel , unfounded , unscriptural , ‘ not even solidly probable ’ , and hinted at the powerful influence of ‘ non-doctrinal forces , whose aims and methods are not beyond reproach ’ ( by which they meant that the press was distorting the event by presenting it in terms of heroes and villains ) . |
| 7 | That is not to say that the more traditional tools and methods are not in evidence in his workshop , but , true to form , he feels that the finished work is more important than the means . |
| 8 | Attitudinal justifications and criticisms are not to be seen as epiphenomena , tacked onto some more basic psychological predisposition , but are integral to attitudes qua attitudes . |
| 9 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 10 | What Aggie did n't know about the ways of loose women , prostitutes , and pimps was n't worth learning , but it was a business and she believed that everybody should mind their own business . |
| 11 | But even Vézelay and Conques were not for most pilgrims ends in themselves . |
| 12 | All the carefully prepared summaries and analyses were not worth the paper they were printed on . |
| 13 | Linnaeus devised a kind of Latin suitable for concise descriptions : animals and plants were not to be written up in flowery language , but in sentences containing many adjectives and few verbs . |
| 14 | I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed . |
| 15 | Most new artists and bands are n't in a strong bargaining position . |
| 16 | It appears that unless people go to work in some landscape recognisable to L. S. Lowry , their jobs , conditions and efforts are not worth talking about . |
| 17 | Excessive and lustful kissing , lustful embraces , suggestive postures and gestures are not to be shown . |
| 18 | Grief and tears are not to be seen as special experiences , only to be used at great and solemn moments . |
| 19 | Leaving aside for one moment the arguments advanced earlier about the morality of insider dealing , the use of inside information to compensate managers and entrepreneurs is not without its practical difficulties . |
| 20 | Mergers and takeovers are not within the company 's experience , and are not likely to succeed in such a consistent , pervasive corporate culture . |
| 21 | And , and peasants were n't by nature , in their , in their processes erm violent , it was only |
| 22 | There were essential differences between them , so that arguments between splitters and lumpers were not about convenience , but about truth . |
| 23 | Some dealers and collectors were not above altering or even removing the genuine patina and treating the surface to give the appearance they felt it should have had . |
| 24 | A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech sound , and the correspondence between phonemes and letters is not on a direct one-to-one basis . |
| 25 | In most branches of the STA , compositors and machinemen were not in conflict . |
| 26 | Wedding bells and roses are n't for me , Folly . |
| 27 | But vets are not without blame . |
| 28 | I mean when we 're walking we are actually falling the whole time , but insects are not like that , they do n't stand on three and pick up the other three . |
| 29 | But things are not like this , for two reasons . |
| 30 | But men are not in the hands of blind fate , for karma speaks not only of the actions and thoughts of the past as explaining a man 's present condition or character , but also as creative of the future . |