Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [be] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The important thing , ’ he quoted almost to himself , ‘ is to remember it 's not brute force with a fixed-spool reel ; just a controlled flick . ’ |
| 2 | The first value is collected from the look-up table and stored in location DELAY , which is checked to ensure it is not zero , because a zero value indicates that the end of the table has been reached . |
| 3 | to see they are not bodies . |
| 4 | Isabel had to admit he was not messenger material , but she was beginning to question the wisdom of her panicked flight from the castle . |
| 5 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |