Example sentences of "not [be] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wench could not talk thus if she had not been her master 's bedfellow . |
| 2 | It had not been her head which Ghost of the Tree had worked on to his skull-staff the night before . |
| 3 | It was only after the women had left that she thought to check the receipt book to make sure it had not been her duty to collect payment for today 's four lunches , then sighed with relief when she saw that this had been attended to at lunchtime by Jean . |
| 4 | It had not been her intention in any way to pry . |
| 5 | It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment . |
| 6 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 7 | What Westminster MPs tend not to understand is that the beneficiaries of this process have not been their cousins in the Strasbourg Parliament , nor even the European Commission , but the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | The member States were deemed to be at one with the Organisation and the Tribunal concluded that it had not been their intention to disappear behind its constitution . |
| 9 | Family Hold Back has not been my motto . |
| 10 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 11 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 12 | Jed would have been at the party if it had not been his duty evening with the Safeguards . |
| 13 | Not been our day at all has it ? |
| 14 | This seemed strange , as it had not been our habit to build large fires . |
| 15 | It may not be their home at all . |
| 16 | Well it may not be their story but that 's the fact . |
| 17 | Each of them has a value and a part to play but they should serve us ; we should not be their slaves . |
| 18 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 19 | ‘ If you are someone 's therapist , you can not be their lover . |
| 20 | it might not be their car could be a load of |
| 21 | But already there had been hints that this would not be her day . |
| 22 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |
| 23 | While in the long term the mother may well be able to obtain employment in Australia , as she has done in the past , understandably it would not be her wish or intention to do so in the short-term . |
| 24 | It could not be her virtue . |
| 25 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 26 | ‘ This might not be her fault . |
| 27 | LIFESPAN 's rules are that the author of a piece of work may not be its approver , so you now need to create another user to approve the package . |
| 28 | A force was raised , an expedition was organized — but Balboa , it was ordered , should not be its commander ; that task should go to a bitter rival , Pedro Arias Dávila . |
| 29 | So that when we subsequently read 70 : ‘ That thou art blam 'd shall not be thy defect , /For slander 's mark was ever yet the fair ’ , with its conclusion that the suspicion of the Friend 's evil is in fact desirable since otherwise the whole world would be in love with him , then we can supply our own ironic commentary . |
| 30 | This will not be our concern here . |