Example sentences of "not [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The one thing you should not do is waste money and risk your fish 's health by treating the tank with chemicals — there is no point unless you know what you are treating . |
| 6 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 7 | ( 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 . … |
| 8 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 9 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 12 | Without such research there would not have been effective vaccination , antibiotics , analgesics , anaesthetics , transplant surgery , brain imaging , intensive care for babies , and drugs for the treatment of psychiatric disorders . |
| 13 | It seems little short of incredible now that such a talent should not have been any source of income for half a century after she left art school , but heartening that the lack of any fiscal reward and only intermittent recognition from her peers made no impact on her creative energies . |
| 14 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 15 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 17 | When contemplating the history of the palazzo you have to wonder whether there might not have been some truth in an ancient prophecy made at the time when Alessi began work on the building . |
| 18 | It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’ |
| 19 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 20 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 21 | It can not have been ostensible authority . |
| 22 | It can not have been ostensible authority . |
| 23 | Indeed , had the populist programme been realized , the effect would not have been direct transition to socialism at all , but the more rapid development of capitalism . |
| 24 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 25 | What is sometimes not appreciated is that privatisation of provision and finance requires extra regulation . |
| 26 | They next moaned about the decrease of learning in England , with Monboddo complaining of , in Scotland , not learning 's mere decrease , but its extinction . |
| 27 | What these boardroom blouses and toerags at the turnstiles do not realise is that football management is not a skill to be acquired through hard work , but a gift from God . |
| 28 | What Dorrainge did not realise was that Lugh was being subtle . |
| 29 | The second thing we can not escape is that man has dominion over the animals , whether we like it or not . |
| 30 | There can be no secret about them , for British Telecom says in its instructions , ‘ The customer may be told the hourly charge rate ’ , though whether he will be told if he does not ask is another matter . |