Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Importing the ingredients through wholesalers has not been a problem . |
| 2 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 3 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 4 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 5 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 6 | James Clappison , Yorkshire South , said Mr Heath 's intervention in the campaign had not been a conspicuous success . |
| 7 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 8 | The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent . |
| 9 | Our Metro has not been a particularly healthy child and its latest illness is a pair of prematurely-worn front seats , the only set with such a problem in the whole of the UK . |
| 10 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 11 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 12 | The 1966 World Cup winner , starting his caretakership of the Potteries club , said : ‘ I have not been a vulture on Mick 's back — and he knows that . ’ |
| 13 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 14 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not been a failure of the organic principle , it 's been a failure of people , ’ says Melville unhappily . |
| 16 | He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight . |
| 17 | It had not been a response to an immediate military threat , but rather to something fundamentalist and almost intuitive — a feeling that Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy , a feeling that Britain as a great power must acquire all major new weapons , a feeling that atomic weapons were a manifestation of the scientific and technological superiority on which Britain 's strength , so deficient in sheer numbers of men , must depend . |
| 18 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 19 | Whether those arguments are valid or not , they have certainly not been a deterrent : the big bang is an ever-expanding field of research . |
| 20 | JANUARY has not been a distinguished month for the Thai police . |
| 21 | Its A-minus rating has been put on probation , out of fear of ballooning deficits ; it might indeed have met sterner treatment had 1989 not been a mayoral election year . |
| 22 | There had not been a crisis for about six months , though , so it was clearly time for one . |
| 23 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 24 | I 'm sure I would n't have got this far musically had I not been a model . ’ |
| 25 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 26 | While Robinson was involved with Paisley and McQuade in the demonstrations against the invitation of Charles Haughey , then the Republic 's Prime Minister , to the enthronement of the Church of Ireland Primate in Armagh in May 1980 , he has not been a conspicuous street demonstrator . |
| 27 | But it had not been a smooth process . |
| 28 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 29 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 30 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |