Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Soviet aid , the first consignments of which began to reach Spain in October 1936 , was emphatically not intended to do was advance the cause of social revolution in Republican Spain . |
| 2 | Yet whatever they did with their talents , the one thing , notoriously , which wealthy men in the Middle Ages were not permitted to do was to lend their money at interest . |
| 3 | He is not said to have been holy , and looks like a successful career churchman , often occupied with the king 's business , and willing to contravene church law by practising pluralism . |
| 4 | As I would put it , not only is justice not seen to have been done but there is no way , in the absence of reasons from the board , in which it can be judged whether in fact it has been done . |
| 5 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 6 | Police said that although the explosion was not thought to have been an accident no one was being sought . |
| 7 | Police said cause had not been established but there were not thought to have been suspicious circumstances . |
| 8 | She is not known to have been involved in any way . |
| 9 | Its only concern has been to ensure that he really does so act , by the general rule which excludes from evidence any confession which is not proved to have been voluntary . |
| 10 | Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained . |
| 11 | It 's thought the body is that of a man , but it 's not believed to have been mutilated in any way . |
| 12 | All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting . |
| 13 | But what we are not allowed to admit is that there are dragons inside the camp , let alone in our hearts . |