Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The health of people like her has not been and is not safe in Tory hands , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Consequently , more time can be spent by the clearinghouse personnel on the sophisticated and time-consuming enquiries which require information and material that has not been or can not be conveniently added to the database , an those which are of an advisory nature . |
| 3 | I am aware that , historically , south London has not been as well served by the underground as north London . |
| 4 | Long-term outcome after community-acquired pneumonia , however , has not been as well investigated . |
| 5 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 6 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 7 | It is n't and has n't been since players first received silver for kicking a ball more than a century ago . |
| 8 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 9 | That has n't been because er Authorities recently have been unable to assess medical and clinical needs , but through a lack of resources . |