Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 2 | Extbuy records acquisition criteria which are announced in the press by companies ( not included are those already recorded on Buyers ) . |
| 3 | What we do not need is another socialist experiment starting next Thursday . |
| 4 | What I did not know was that English soccer was televised in Algeria . |
| 5 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 6 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 7 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 8 | What we did not see were any examples of pupil-centred enquiry methods being employed by teachers and using materials specifically purchased for this purpose with project funds , as predicted in the proposal documents . |
| 9 | Another thing you might not realize is that erm , erm when you ordered motor buses you had to get authority from the Ministry of Transport and you used to appl apply for a bus grant . |
| 10 | What Philby did not guess was that , having warned Maclean for him , Burgess would join him on the night ferry to St Malo en route to Moscow , on 25 May 1951 . |
| 11 | What this argument did not anticipate was that new , flexible methods of manufacturing made possible by electronics sharply reduced the minimum economies of plant scale . |
| 12 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 13 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 14 | ‘ There would not have been many to mourn him . ’ |
| 15 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 16 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 17 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 19 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 20 | Without your hard work , the development of the new courses could not have been such a success . |
| 21 | ‘ He would not have been such a fool as to do it in front of witnesses . ’ |
| 22 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 23 | Had the police department , under former Chief Darryl Gates , carried out its duties properly last April there would not have been such a spread of violence , he said . |
| 24 | He may not have been much of a fancy cook , but Kunio had a very keen brain and a highly intelligent outlook on life . |
| 25 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 26 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 27 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 28 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 29 | Such an expedition takes time to mount , and there can not have been much of a gap between the Egyptian failure and the decision ( ? 453/2 ) to return to Cyprus . |
| 30 | However , this may not have been much of a choice . |