Example sentences of "be [that] you [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 The chances are that you have n't and that 's where The Photographer 's Studio Manual comes in .
2 No my philosophy with customer relations has always been that you do n't give somebody a refund , you give them some tickets to fly again so it 's keeps them flying
3 WITH Saturn influencing your base in life , it may be that you have not felt out-and-out joy regarding the home itself or your relationship with one or two members of the family for some considerable time .
4 Your only defence would be that you did not publish the slander , which in this case would be very difficult , I feel .
5 ‘ Can it be that you do not remember me , Mikhail ? ’ he pleaded .
6 Can it really be that you do not remember ? ’
7 It may be that you do not recognise the deep-seated reasons why you hold some animals in higher esteem than others .
8 ‘ But the difference with you Englishmen ’ , Mr Lewis said , ‘ seems to be that you do n't really hate the Germans any more .
9 Or it might be that you do n't want to talk about her because there is something to hide ?
10 It may well be that you do n't actually do that , it may be that you have one to one meetings with people or group meetings er which could be when you have to put across your point of view .
11 No that 's that you do n't
12 ‘ The trouble with you , ’ Doone said with disillusion , looking at the column of negatives , ‘ is that you have n't met enough murderers . ’
13 The other thing of course is that you have n't got any choice anyway , because the yen to have children is about as basic as the yen to have sex .
14 The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge .
15 ‘ The trouble , Kenny , ’ he told him , ‘ is that you have n't got a play . ’
16 The first thing to remember is that you have not necessarily lost your place even if you have n't quite made the grades required .
17 The oldest rule in the Westminster book is that you do not try to reach difficult decisions in the last week of July .
18 The trouble with playing from this distance , however , is that you do not require a full swing .
19 The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well .
20 The good thing about a spreadsheet is that you do not need to worry about the order in which you list items — you can sort on any field later .
21 The advantage of Wysiwyg is that you do not have to keep switching from one to the other .
22 The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is .
23 The point is that you do not in this ‘ original position ’ know how to be biased and hence have to be fair : justice in this context would have to be ‘ blind ’ .
24 ‘ The mystery of the coming of a new creature is a great mystery ad incomprehensible , Mrs Virginsky , and what a pity it is that you do n't understand it . '
25 The elder was contemptuous when the younger replied to his crushing arguments by the reply , the reason why you think like that is that you do n't say your prayers .
26 The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't need to remember to save the money which you would have paid to the Government later on !
27 It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for .
28 The trouble is that you do n't know about all this .
29 Alex tries to demystify it , says its function is just to produce electricity for the National Grid efficiently and cleanly , that the main difference between this and any other power station is that you do n't have beside it a huge pyramid of polluting coal dust .
30 I mean , the whole point of the matter , the whole thing it comes down to , is that you do n't have to settle for what is now .
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