Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 2 | There had not been much to Clive . |
| 3 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
| 4 | Until now , Offa 's Dyke had not been much in evidence but from Chirk Castle beyond Oswestry 's old racecourse there is a sizeable stretch . |
| 5 | With her enchanting grin , which had , sadly , not been much in evidence of late , she added , ‘ I expect Sheila from down the road had been in with her ‘ Mr Sheen ’ … ’ |
| 6 | First of all I that at no time have the Labour , the Liberal and the Conservative not been totally in favour of this fire station . |
| 7 | It had not been there during Mass . |
| 8 | I 'm gon na get some and take some down to grandma 's grave so I fe , I feel really guilty we 've not been there since Christmas eve ! |
| 9 | In a land war , however , the concern will not be just for Iraqis , whether civilians or soldiers , but for allied soldiers . |
| 10 | The consequence of this is that the records may not be physically in sequence after a control interval split , although they will be handled in sequence by the indexes . |
| 11 | Even so , culture will not be wholly within management 's control . |
| 12 | It is almost certain that the tips will not be exactly in line with each other . |
| 13 | Electronic point of sale data , or credit/charge information , or banking data might be protected currently in the UK by copyright , but would probably not be elsewhere in Europe . |
| 14 | The summit will not be all about Mrs Thatcher 's ritual denunciation of the Social Charter , her contempt for the potential of the European Parliament , her denial that the time is right , her isolated war against any truck with monetary union . |
| 15 | WOSE MAY NOT BE FAR BEHIND COSE |
| 16 | The management became worried that if the calls for encores were to continue the opera , with its three ballets , lasting six hours , would be so long that the nobility would not be home in time for supper . |
| 17 | He was meeting the lads at seven and I was n't to wait up as he might not be home till February ( a chip off the old block ) . |
| 18 | The aims of these were to curb indiscriminate outdoor relief ; if the poor were not sufficiently desperate to enter the workhouse they could not be really in need . |
| 19 | But it may not be enough for clubs with their own tours . |
| 20 | But all that would not be enough without Connery to focus it . |
| 21 | I am sorry you have not heard from Sydney , you can not be long without letters , if they are not arrived already [ letter torn ] . |
| 22 | I have a feeling that it will not be long before Carnach 's people do the same , for Mugeary is dead , killed by his nephew Daman . |
| 23 | It would not be long before Jimmy Carter and much of the world realized that there very little , perhaps nothing , that could " keep Khomeini under control " -not , that is , from a liberal Western point of view . |
| 24 | She was sure that Comrade Andrew would not be still in bed , whoever else was . |
| 25 | ‘ That may be a nuisance in Grosvenor Square which would be none in Smithfield Market , that may be a nuisance at mid-day which would not be so at midnight , that may be a nuisance which is permanent and continual which would be no nuisance if temporary or occasional only ’ . |
| 26 | Similar diagrams to show the periods of flourishing of various natural groups were used by Richard Owen , Darwin 's chief adversary in England ; illustrations which look Darwinian may not be so in fact , but merely indicate that contemporaries were all wrestling with similar problems , and were sharing a good many assumptions . |
| 27 | Would it not be more like Satan to shoot a dart into the dreams of an unsuspecting person , so that he foresees a plane crash without any hope of helping or saying the situation ? |
| 28 | The results have to be published and should not be only of interest to the client group who put forward the proposal . |
| 29 | In other words , Labour , through control of the House of Commons , may form a government but it will not be fully in power because there is power in the secret state , in the private centres of economy and society , and in the international market itself , and all of these things lie beyond the easy grasp of a parliamentary majority . |
| 30 | Pleasure also becomes the element which protects the poet from the action of the powerful against a message they may not be fully in agreement with . |