Example sentences of "his [noun pl] be not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position is summarised in Rex v. Bishop of Chester , 1 W.Bl. 22 , 25 , by Lee C.J. : ‘ Certainly , if a visitor is in his jurisdiction his acts are not to be inquired into ; if out of it , his acts are void . ’ |
| 2 | He held out his hand and Libby found hers being shaken , slowly at first , then harder , until she began to laugh because when he looked at her his eyes were n't like those of the blind man any more . |
| 3 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 4 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 5 | He also makes the point that as someone who is not earning and who is unable to sell his house , his circumstances are not unlike those of many other people . |
| 6 | The tears which coursed down his cheeks were not for the head groom . |
| 7 | Terry 's theme is seasonable but his ideas are not for your living room or Christmas tree — they are for your partywear . |
| 8 | Schussler attempted , with his salts , to simplify homoeopathy to make it easier to practise , but his concept of deficiency disease has not been validated and his ideas are not in line with classical homoeopathic principles . |
| 9 | But his expectations were not to be fulfilled . |
| 10 | ‘ His prints were n't on any of the handles . |
| 11 | Unlike many of those who followed him and profited from pirated editions of his works , Russell was not a quack and his treatments were not to be taken lightly , the firm physical and mental regimen he prescribed being not far from the modern practices of hydropathic establishments or the health clubs beloved of overweight executives . |
| 12 | But the messages of her paintings to his paintings were not about domestication . |
| 13 | He moved and acted , but the springs of his life and the driving force of his actions were not within himself … his strength was being spent on the grindstone of alien work ; he was not putting it to his own account . |
| 14 | The public perception of his players is not of a group of national heroes , battling to turn the tide and restore pride . |
| 15 | Winds of change might blow around him but his basics were not under threat . |
| 16 | Bruce Dickinson and his eels are not in evidence . |
| 17 | His thoughts were not of Britain 's fate , nor Poland 's , but of Hannele 's . |
| 18 | Alice walked hand in hand with Alfred , though it was obvious his thoughts were not with her . |
| 19 | But Brian and his colleagues were n't to be defeated . |