Example sentences of "not be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have not been contact with someone for some time and do not have a directory which is updated frequently , a quick phone call tell you whether your contact is still there or has moved on . |
| 2 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
| 3 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 4 | Oh I 'll tell you later why she 's not been sort of I 'll tell you in a bit . |
| 5 | They do n't have to give up their best rooms and their freedom and not be mistress in their own house , and wait on people like that any more . ’ |
| 6 | No doubt there are plenty of conceivable Ks for which these statements would not be true , plenty of conceivable evolutionary pathways for which the intermediates would not be improvements on their predecessors . |
| 7 | I was staggered to learn that the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats gave categorical assurances to the House that rate capping or capping of any sort would not be part of their programmes . |
| 8 | Life would not be life without it . |
| 9 | Possibly it was thought that for this reason , amongst others , she would not be suspect by our controls . |
| 10 | I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean there might not be room in my head for all those brains so something has to push out ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Cast out this slave woman with her son , ’ she commands Abraham , ‘ for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac . ’ |
| 13 | The Fife MPs , Mr Brown , Rachel Squire , Henry McLeish , Lewis Mooney and Menzies Campbell , were assured by Mr Aitken that an idea by Devonport for Rosyth to refit oil tankers would not be material to his decision about the nuclear contract . |
| 14 | When I say that some of them take [ women compositors ] to be wives , there can not be ill-feeling toward them " . |
| 15 | Might there not be reason in his madness ? |
| 16 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 17 | Listening to noises outside , yet not being part of them was safe too . |
| 18 | I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night . |
| 19 | She meant to explain that there had n't been room in their cases but before she could speak Miss Evans turned bright red and said quickly , ‘ Oh , I 'm so sorry , how silly of me , why should you ? |
| 20 | Do n't wan na I wo n't be friends with her . |
| 21 | He could n't be part of their brotherhood but he wanted to be among them . |
| 22 | Having ‘ given his best ’ to the centre for four years and taken a major role in setting it up , he obviously felt ‘ very disappointed ’ he would n't be part of its new phase . |
| 23 | He was avid for news of how it was all going , and regretting that he could n't be part of it . |
| 24 | And you wo n't be part of it for much longer . |
| 25 | ‘ And you and I wo n't be part of it . ’ |
| 26 | In business , you ca n't be expert at everything . |
| 27 | Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her . |
| 28 | That ca n't be news to you , man . |
| 29 | There would n't be photos of him if he had . |
| 30 | And we have done something about it , grasped the mettle , and I believe that in a short while we 're going to solve this problem , and it wo n't be thanks to you and the Conservative Party . |