Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applebey concluded that , whilst useful to lawyers , the pre-trial review in the county court civil action has not been of enormous assistance to the ordinary person trying to conduct his or her own case . |
| 2 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 3 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
| 4 | This has not been without considerable sacrifice and testing of faith . |
| 5 | Yawl has not been in perfect health this spring . |
| 6 | The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history . |
| 7 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 8 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 9 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
| 10 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 11 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 12 | People often have an underlying doubt about falling in and dislike not being in complete control over what they are doing . |
| 13 | on a train , because I 've got a governor 's meeting that day and , and I ca n't avoid not being at that governor 's meeting because I 'm a chairman |
| 14 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 15 | in the audience , be careful cos you 're going do n't be under any illusion when your region , your job , or your elected position is under threat , it 's human nature to protect your back and when this happens , it 's the members who end up being the casualties . |
| 16 | Do n't be like poor Vincent . |
| 17 | Do n't be like that Chris . |
| 18 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 19 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 20 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 21 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 23 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 24 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 25 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 26 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 27 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 28 | She had not been in that position . |
| 29 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 30 | Harry had not been in good shape in Jo 's memory . |