Example sentences of "it [not/n't] be [verb] " 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 | Let it not be said we do n't have any standards in this office . |
| 4 | Could it not be said the overwhelming factor of modern life is the apathy amongst the majority of its members , which should engender concern regarding the way government is designed ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 7 | " Let it not be imagined that grouse are an easy quarry for any hawk to take . |
| 8 | Will it not be regarded by them and by the regiments as an admission that he is unable to justify on security grounds the cuts that he has made ? |
| 9 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 10 | Would it not be killing two birds with one stone for the West to purchase the remaining MiGs , together with the factory that produces them , and then close it down ? |
| 11 | The Government 's arguments do not , however , deal with the question that runs as follows : if the Parliament in Scotland decided to raise taxation , would it not be entitled so to do if a majority in favour of that existed ? |
| 12 | Yet both original film and play were widely unavailable until the early Eighties , due to copyright problems and the author 's insistence ( after a public outcry had kept the play , completed in 1897 , off the Austrian stage until 1921 ) that it not be produced for fear of his intentions being betrayed . |
| 13 | Let it not be thought this will exclude the Presbyterians who are already making secret trips to Roman Catholic outfitters and coming away with bright blue cassocks and nifty black shirts with priestly collars which can be removed in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 14 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From what I have read and seen of Crumlin Road Prison , the conditions there could hardly be more austere , particularly for remand prisoners ( who , let it not be forgotten , are innocent until proven guilty ) . |
| 18 | Similarly , the value of a reinvestigation could be weakened if , instead of co-operating , the suspect leaves his explanation for the trial , when not only can it not be investigated but when it could also cast doubt on the value of any re-investigation that has taken place . |
| 19 | Why should it not be protected ? |
| 20 | Why should it not be left to individual members of the Bar to decide whether they wish to specialise in advocacy ? |