Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not exactly pushing a supermarket trolley but I make sure I have plenty of apples , bananas and water to keep me going . |
| 2 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 3 | We find most frequently in the words ‘ you ’ , ‘ to ’ , ‘ into ’ , ‘ do ’ , when they are unstressed and are not immediately preceding a consonant , and ‘ through ’ and ‘ who ’ in all positions when they are unstressed . |
| 4 | If you go by car then you should check on the availability of car parking , as nurses are not generally considered a priority in this respect . |
| 5 | Cricket , for James , was not ‘ mere entertainment ’ but an activity in which everybody , even those watching , has a participatory role ; for like Carnival , the involvement of the crowd means they are not just watching a spectacle , but rather ‘ they live in it ’ because , ‘ its very idea embraces all the people ’ . |
| 6 | But in the Soviet Union itself , on this anniversary of the horror on April 26th , people are not just remembering a five-year-old bungle . |
| 7 | We are not just presenting a series of artistic achievements , but seeking to make every possible connection between the works themselves , the space in which they are exhibited , and the senses of the viewer . |
| 8 | We are not really operating a gallery in the true sense of the word , with additional stock behind the scenes . |
| 9 | Notice they are not only given a reason for observing , which , of course , gives their spectator role a frame through which to watch , but there is also a hint of some responsibility they might have to carry — a necessary engagement is then ensured . |
| 10 | We 're not just playing a weekend game , but working five or six days a week , so there are bound to be problems of mental fatigue and photographers become stale and burned out . |
| 11 | I mean , it 's not like in a Youth Club ; you 're not just hitting a ball backwards and forwards like ping-pong . |
| 12 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
| 13 | She wanted her to do a night and she said I 'm not bloody doing a night and then back in here she said . |
| 14 | If I 'm not there leave a message on the answerphone . |
| 15 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 16 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 17 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 18 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 19 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 20 | so all of our best defenders who are not yet on contract will travel to Britain real soon now — Nilsen&Pedersen for sure : Johnsen is not yet offered a contract at Spurs . |
| 21 | You can connect your spur cable into the circuit at any existing conveniently-sited socket , so long as this is on the main circuit and is not already supplying a spur ( see ADDING EXTRA SOCKETS ) . |
| 22 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 23 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 24 | This is not strictly speaking a realist film and some hold that the artistic embellishment is at odds with Steinbeck 's message . |
| 25 | Sometimes the mirroring may comprise only the note-order , or ( conversely ) the rhythmic structure set to different notes , so that it is not strictly speaking a palindrome . |
| 26 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 27 | This means that the user is not just offered a menu of choices but can also be asked questions . |
| 28 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 29 | To say that physics and physical science have such strong boundaries is not simply to make a statement about the disciplines . |
| 30 | It also claims that the M11 extension is not covered by the directive since it is not officially designated a motorway , although the government admits that it is likely to be given motorway status at the time of opening . |