Example sentences of "not [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 3 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 4 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 6 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 7 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 8 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
| 9 | She had not been in that position . |
| 10 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 12 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 13 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 14 | Half-way through the twentieth century it was becoming clear to the more perceptive analysts that , whatever the political limitations might or might not be to that form of growth , there were ecological limitations looming on the horizon . |
| 15 | ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority . |
| 16 | 14.1 shall not be under any liability to or to any party in any way whatsoever for the destruction , damage , delay or any matters of this nature whatsoever arising our of war , rebellion , civic commotion , strikes , lock-outs and industrial disputes ; fire , explosion , earthquake , act of God , flood , drought , or bad weather ; the unavailability or deliveries , supplies , work , disks , or other media or the requisitioning or any other act or order by any government department , council or other constituted body . |
| 17 | 8.1 The Seller shall not be under any liability for any failure to perform any of its obligations under the Order due to Force Majeure . |
| 18 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 19 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 20 | In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering . |
| 21 | The domestic arrangements of an elderly bachelor like myself can not be of much interest to anyone . |
| 22 | This seems to indicate that the igfet should not be of much use and , indeed , this is the case at low frequencies of operation . |
| 23 | In opposition to centrally imposed ‘ local economic strategies ’ , these initiatives of the left explicitly recognize that what is appropriate in one place , may not be of much use in another . |
| 24 | In most cases this will not be of much use , but at this stage there is nothing to lose . |
| 25 | Although baby universes may not be of much use for space travel , they have important implications for our attempt to find a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe . |
| 26 | In either case , it would not be of much use as a source of heat and light for life on Earth . |
| 27 | The Governor , Sir David Wilson , has argued for a general ‘ right of entry ’ to Britain — though such a ‘ right ’ could not be of much value if it were not ordinarily convertible into full citizenship . |
| 28 | Method ( 2 ) , as discussed in chapter 3 , may not be of much value if managers do not stay long enough in one position . |
| 29 | The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens . |
| 30 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |