Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 2 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 3 | Like any other book , however , they are listed in the catalogue , where they usually bear some distinctive mark such as R indicating that they are not available on loan . |
| 4 | Robert Dexter flew home with Prior last night and Carlisle Flint have gone on record saying that they are not interested in a change of team . |
| 5 | The 1977 Whitford Committee Report however , reviewing UK Copyright law , dismissed a proposal for droit de suite stating that it was not fair , logical or practical for such a concept to be introduced into the UK . |
| 6 | This acts as a commitment payment and demonstrates the seriousness of the vendors confirming that it is not their intention just to test the water and withdraw . |
| 7 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 8 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 9 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 10 | Grilled beef can take any style providing that it 's not too sweet ( as German mustards are ) or flavoured with an unsuitable herb such as dill . |
| 11 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 12 | John Masefield began his collected poems with a consecration declaring that he was not concerned with the princes and prelates , the bemedalled commander , the ‘ potentates goodly in girth ’ , but rather with the humble and unknown folk , the losers and rejected , the common sailor and soldier , the servant rather than the master . |
| 13 | Now again it 's oh there 's silence in the room but while you 're writing what what are the audience doing if you 're not speaking ? |
| 14 | John Kirwan has also changed his mind after he was heard on TVNZ after the World Cup saying that he was not prepared to play for New Zealand unless John Hart was nominated as coach . |
| 15 | Of the twenty patients eligible for phase 2 , three refused to try the suspect foods arguing that they were not important in their diets ( mushroom , apple , and peanuts ) and they did not wish to risk a recurrence of symptoms . |
| 16 | IT WAS plain old-fashioned instinct , the gut feeling that something was not right , that led Detective Superintendent Stuart Clifton though a medical maze to trap the nurse who killed four children . |
| 17 | increase in the number of those in temporary accommodation , but is the Minister suggesting that they are not homeless ? |
| 18 | An Information memorandum should include a form of wording emphasising that it is not a prospectus , that the information it contains is confidential and that neither we nor the directors of the company concerned accept responsibility for it . |
| 19 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |