Example sentences of "[subord] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belief is unjustified because nothing that you can point to suggests that you are rather than are not a brain in a vat . |
| 2 | They seemed angry with the therapist although were not saying this openly . |
| 3 | At the , at the last search , at the last highway committee , although were not having , having , having the , the full service at the envisage in the first instance , a lot is going to be done , is going to be some more erm shelters directed there and one or two other facilities and somebody has even suggested that we put a toilet there which is a very good idea . . |
| 4 | Some of it , notably parts of the two reports from the ACPS chimed with , although were not attributable to , the political beliefs of a number of Conservatives on the back benches in the House of Commons . |
| 5 | But I 've been surprised over the last erm few years of all these young men erm who have restored this museum who , although were not even born in those years , have taken a tremendous interest in what went on and erm well their results , some of their results you can see here today . |
| 6 | Well let's look at a few examples I 'll take the Korean war of nineteen fifty to fifty three , the Cuban missiles crisis which , although was not an actual war , very nearly threatened a nuclear war , of nineteen sixty two and the Vietnam war of nineteen sixty three to nineteen seventy two . |
| 7 | Cos were not going to do Christine 's two straight away . |
| 8 | No seriously cos listen if 's not here that means we 're gon na have Mr taking us . |
| 9 | For political freedom will mean little it if is not underpinned by economic freedom as well . |
| 10 | If is not too large , one need only measure the scattering intensity at 90° and two angles symmetrical about 90° , usually 45° and 135° . |
| 11 | I am not surprised that the Minister declines to give us the figures because is not the truth that about 60 to 80 times the amount of money is being spent per capita on students at the city technology college than is spent on pupils at secondary schools in Sunderland and surrounding boroughs ? |
| 12 | If he translates word-for-word , he will achieve greater fidelity in one respect ( , for instance , evokes the same picture as put the cat among the pigeons ) , but to the detriment of fidelity in another respect ( is a live metaphor , while is not ) ; if , however , he puts a greater value on the latter type of fidelity , then he must sacrifice the former . |
| 13 | Before considering these it is worth pointing out that , for isotropic materials , while are upper bounds and lower bounds , the simple " rule of mixtures ' relation for Young 's modulus is not an upper bound since is not a linear combination of the phase moduli . |
| 14 | Among some people who have been involved in negotiations at Geneva on laws-of-war matters there is a genuine concern that any neat set of rules limiting the use of nuclear weapons in one way or another might have the unfortunate effects either of weakening deterrence ; or else , contrariwise , of seeming to legitimise such uses of nuclear weapons as are not covered in any agreement ; or else of being nothing more than a paper accord , which would be of little real value in a conflict . |
| 15 | THE SRU is in favour of the ratification of this season 's experimental variations in the laws or , at the very least , the continuation of such experiments as are not ratified by the IRFB at its meeting in Edinburgh in April . |
| 16 | Its significance lies in its double message : that the aim of the Palestinian struggle is the establishment of Palestinian independence , and that this independence is regarded as being not at Israel 's expense . |
| 17 | This struck me as being not only unfortunate , but also a bit like a quiz show host revealing to losing contestants the prizes they could have won . |
| 18 | Most of the world 's big planes known to be in the air at that time were recorded by the traffic controllers as being not above the Atlantic Ocean at all , but above the Pacific . |
| 19 | A teacher who regards his work in this way , who sees his task as being not merely an overseer of academic progress but a mature adult who watches over and helps a child to find personal identity in an ever more complex and fast moving world may deservedly claim to be considered doing work worthy of professional status . |
| 20 | These show how what is taken for granted in one society would be looked upon as being not only strange but perhaps also immoral in another society . |
| 21 | The United States , and some other Western governments , went to considerable lengths to try and discredit these elections as being not free , but fraudulent . |
| 22 | So the actual So w why was it the fetching of etcetera , were thought of as being not so good ? |
| 23 | It saw the CNAA connection as being ‘ with the substance , not the shadow ’ , and CNAA degrees as being not ‘ a caste mark to be sought or scorned but … an opportunity to shape courses that will help those who follow them to live with the caprices of economic and social change ’ . |
| 24 | In this view , parties are seen as being not quite as central to formulation of public money as both reformers and the politicians themselves believe . |
| 25 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 26 | Such workers themselves are often married to other breadwinners , and when , as is not uncommon , both partners lose their jobs , the drop in income can be dramatic . |
| 27 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 28 | Or a bird surely has a right to fly , and keeping a bird captive in a small cage that prevents this is immoral in much the same way as is not allowing a person to express himself verbally … |
| 29 | In our ordinary thinking about causation and time there evidently is uncertainty , as is not the case elsewhere . |
| 30 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |