Example sentences of "it not be [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 Let it not be said that the government rushes into legislation without consultation .
2 The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ?
3 But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ?
4 Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ?
5 " Let it not be imagined that grouse are an easy quarry for any hawk to take .
6 Will it not be found that the political activity of societies consists ordinarily , perhaps invariably , in filling sieves and making sand ropes — sieves which those who fill them half know to be sieves , sand which those who weave it into ropes suspect to be sand after all ?
7 Let it not be forgotten that in the years leading to the war the Tories were so scared of Russia that they missed the chance to establish a partnership which might well have prevented war .
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