Example sentences of "not be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gotobed was downstairs in a room Carrie had not been into before ; a light , pretty drawing-room , all gilt chairs and mirrors . |
| 2 | The resurrection has not been without pain , however . |
| 3 | The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems . |
| 4 | The steady flow of investment and acquisitions , supported by an £88m rights issue 12 months ago , have not been without hiccups , however . |
| 5 | Of course AMV has not been without its critics . |
| 6 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 7 | This has not been without considerable sacrifice and testing of faith . |
| 8 | We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do . |
| 9 | Fuchs 's career as a museum director has not been without controversy . |
| 10 | The anti-papal propaganda of the preceding twenty years had not been without effect , but more importantly there remained considerable anxiety about the new queen 's plans for the vast amount of ecclesiastical land which had been acquired by the laity . |
| 11 | Such developments , however , have not been without problems . |
| 12 | Her sudden , almost overnight , success had not been without its problems however . |
| 13 | Maybe , as William strongly suspected , this first communion between the rat and the marmot had not been without violence and rattus rattus , being the little fucker he was , had savagely copulated with the small , pretty , squirrel-like creature — and then torn her throat out . |
| 14 | His own childhood , though markedly less strenuous , less arduous than Liz 's , had not been without its privations , its humiliations . |
| 15 | The rapid increase in home ownership has not been without its problems . |
| 16 | Since reorganization , however , as we have seen , many of the new colleges of higher education have turned to the CNAA for validation , a process that has not been without its stresses and strains . |
| 17 | These initiatives , however , have not been without criticism . |
| 18 | As she changed the water in her washing-up bowl , the feeling of a pattern more securely possessed her , the feeling of events happening and being linked , the feeling that her wakeful nights and her edginess over her lost child had not been without an outcome . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , this service has not been without delays and mishaps and early in the season Regional Railways had no stock for it , an InterCity rake with buffet + DVT was substituted but the DVT came off at Salop ! |
| 21 | A representative of the 15-member Commonwealth observer group said that the elections had been free and fair , although the process had not been without incident and there were imperfections in the electoral lists . |
| 22 | Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies . |
| 23 | The big scoreboard behind the stands showed that the professional side of the tournament had not been without its drama . |
| 24 | However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation . |
| 25 | The job of supervising health policy for Scotland 's largest heath authority has not been without its difficulties . |
| 26 | It 's not been without pain and I pay tribute to our staff 's willingness to embrace the changes that we 've had to make . |
| 27 | That adjustment has not been without its advantages , in fact . |
| 28 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 29 | A correspondent from the Financial Times reported after a visit to Battambang on Jan. 24 that the city " is not , and has not been under siege " . |
| 30 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |