Example sentences of "not [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did not explain was the logical conclusion that before Whinfield and Denmark Street controlled their budgets they offered a similar service to other surgeries . |
| 2 | What he did not expect was the long pause , and then the urgency of Phil Jordan 's voice . |
| 3 | The explicit confirmation that the Commons really does not matter was the real constitutional crisis waiting to happen , vindication to all those Euro-sceptics who argue that Maastricht rides roughshod over parliamentary sovereignty . |
| 4 | What the cameras did not show were the anonymous men mingling with the crowd , the sophisticated electronic surveillance devices , the hidden cameras monitoring the crowd , the concealed marksmen at vantage points above their heads . |
| 5 | What he could not see was the restless , self-centred consumerism it would produce . |
| 6 | In my opinion it is no wider than that : the articles in which he may not canvass are the very articles in respect of which his employer employed him . |
| 7 | One option that he did not possess was the mass medium of radio which he had used so effectively during the war : in April 1947 the prime minister Paul Ramadier prohibited retransmission of de Gaulle 's speeches . |
| 8 | So it would not have been the appropriate body to formulate rules of the kind embodied in the Vienna Sales Convention , though recommended contract terms might have been feasible . |
| 9 | Might not have been the managing director |
| 10 | On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS . |
| 11 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 12 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 13 | Also , the feared return of large numbers of KGB agents may not have been the only operational reason to influence the intelligence men to fear the election of a Labour government under the premiership of Harold Wilson . |
| 14 | Imitation need not have been the only process at work . |
| 15 | Enclosure may not have been the only or even the most potent of the forces increasing and impoverishing the rural proletariat in the southern and Midland counties , but it was impor-tant in bringing many to a total wage-dependency . |
| 16 | If it did sail against him , Cnut presumably took appropriate measures , and contrary winds need not have been the only force responsible for its repulse . |
| 17 | Moreover , the Winchester crown need not have been the only one that Cnut gave away , as Christ Church Canterbury seems also to have received one . |
| 18 | This would not have been the only occasion on which the notion of brotherhood was used to imply a special relationship with Rome ; the people of Autun , for instance , regarded themselves as being brothers of the Romans , as did the men of the Auvergne . |
| 19 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 20 | Mr Harold Macmillan was admittedly fortified by an informal poll of Conservative members and notables , but it may be argued that he should not have been the sole fountainhead of advice , if it is indeed a constitutional principle that a retiring Prime Minister has no special title or status to advise on the choice of his successor . |
| 21 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 22 | I was still not allowed out of doors , except on the lawn on fine days , and it must not have been the good luck of many ‘ fishy ’ characters to have had their letters posted by one of ‘ Their Lordships . ’ |
| 23 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 24 | This may not have been the explicit aim of the programmes outlined below , but the consequences for the inner cities were real enough . |
| 25 | Although the wife 's case as presented below had depended on establishing agency , the court expressed the view that that might not have been the correct test . |
| 26 | Although , as we have seen , Saxon infiltration into the Sussex area took a more peaceable form in the fourth and fifth centuries , Ella 's invasion may not have been the first . |
| 27 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 28 | While his passion for theology seems to have pre-occupied him mainly during his period as a cardinal , he would not have been the first to have changed the direction of his interests when more practical challenges came his way . |
| 29 | Gould might have been disorientated — his record of dates , distances and directions are sometimes unreliable ; he might have exaggerated the achievements of his expedition — he would not have been the first explorer to do so ; or he might have been misquoted by an over-enthusiastic press . |
| 30 | The fasting mentioned can not have been the national fast on the Day of Atonement for all Jews kept this fast . |