Example sentences of "not [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those which do not exist are effectively discarded because they are not stored in the list , however they could be regenerated from the graph should that become necessary at some future stage . |
| 2 | Where statistically significant differences do not exist is between high-achieving men and high-achieving women . |
| 3 | It is in my opinion axiomatic that a boundary which does not exist is ipso facto incapable of being re-aligned , but can only with ju justification be created de novo . |
| 4 | Analogously one might say " that the Earth is round is a fact " , " that Ruritania does not exist is a fact " . |
| 5 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 6 | Salt marshes , too , would not exist were it not for the tides . |
| 7 | Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service . |
| 8 | We will say that exactly what did not exist was a causal link between the operation of the mechanism , or anything else whatever , and the bar 's coming out . |
| 9 | An impression has undoubtedly gained ground — which I do not think is fair to the Wolfenden Committee — that the Committee desired to legalise homosexual conduct . |
| 10 | So far as the issues of English law are concerned , it is , as Mr. Beazley fairly recognised , almost inevitable that these cases , in view of the very difficult legal problems and of the very large sums of money at stake , will , unless settled , proceed in the end , as did the Hazell case , to the highest court ; thus even if there was a prospect of irreconcilable decisions at first instance or on intermediate appeal , which I do not think is likely , the final arbiters in the House of Lords will be able to give one single decision which will be binding in both England and Scotland , and with no possibility of irreconcilability . |
| 11 | By the end of the day Harriet was not surprised when the girl went to bed early , pleading a headache which her mother did not think was entirely due to gin and tonic at ten thirty in the morning . |
| 12 | We may too readily have mocked the Tory ladies in their funny hats advocating primitive retribution , for what the socialist movement has not registered is that these ladies articulate a collective fear which women share . |
| 13 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 14 | That his confidence was not misplaced was reflected in the enthusiasm of everyone present . |
| 15 | The proposition that there are no laws which Parliament may not make is one which has been uttered frequently . |
| 16 | What we do not want is lessons laid down by law . |
| 17 | What we most certainly do not want is a dog with high fearlessness and high sharpness . |
| 18 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 19 | On savings , the one thing that we do not want is a return to the Labour Government 's policies of the 1970s . |
| 20 | The one thing I did not want was an internal . |
| 21 | All recommendations in the examination booklet which are not discussed and not altered are taken as agreed . |
| 22 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 23 | A covenant not to sue is not a release . |
| 24 | Duncan leant back , not enjoying being the object of the Russian 's amusement . |
| 25 | The most significant feature not explained is a tiny ( 43 arcsec ) component in the precession of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury ( 532 arcsec per century ) . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're not fussing are you , old love ? ’ teased Travis . |
| 27 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 28 | That children should be seen and not heard is a notion with which Carol Blick wholeheartedly disagrees . |
| 29 | The average birth weight of men who were not traced was 0.2 pounds ( 91 g ) less than those who were traced . |
| 30 | " Biased language " is language which favours one group of the population at the expense of another ; the group not favoured is then said to be marginalised or derogated . |