Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 2 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 3 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 4 | Because of their different activity time clock , the owls are not competing with the hawks for the same food animals at the same time and can therefore co-exist . |
| 5 | They are not binding on the judges , but they have a persuasive authority where judicial choice is possible . |
| 6 | Unless otherwise agreed , the findings of the expert(s) are not binding on the parties : they may be recommendations for the future performance of the contract . |
| 7 | ( It may be necessary to pick these out with a pin on pinch pleat and cartridge tapes if you are not cutting between the pleats . |
| 8 | We are not talking about the merits and de-merits of fox hunting we are not talking whether they die slowly or fast or what should be done . |
| 9 | We are not talking about the police , we are talking about justice for all . |
| 10 | Having spent a healthy proportion of his personal wealth in a bid to provide a Premier Division platform for the club , figures show the public are not responding through the Dens Park turnstiles . |
| 11 | You 're going on er you 're not listening to the answers , you 're going too fast . |
| 12 | No , I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry , you 're not listening to the complaints of people , I am . |
| 13 | You 're not kidding about the drugs ring ? ’ |
| 14 | If if we 're not complying with the procedures that 's a different |
| 15 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not working with the locals . |
| 17 | Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 're not coming to the agents ’ dinner , ’ said Joshua . |
| 19 | You 're not paying above the odds for the car , or the insurance premium for that matter . |
| 20 | But we 're not talking about the robots of the popular image , the machines which glide about putting cars together or spraying paints to order . |
| 21 | I 'm waiting until , I 'm not thinking about the prices of anywhere until I 've sold . |
| 22 | ‘ Let's say that Ah 'm not going to the police or anybody in authority . |
| 23 | Well , no actually cos I 'm not going I 'm not going up the stairs |
| 24 | Well I 'm not coming up the steps , and lift you down the steps ! |
| 25 | ‘ Look , I 'm not arguing about the rapes . |
| 26 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 27 | The banks , threatened with the loss of many lucrative transactions ( and with expensive computer networks to maintain ) were not co-operating with the authorities , who talked of sending the police round to see that they did . |
| 28 | It said a lot for the captain himself that his team remained confident in themselves even when results were not going for the Scots . |
| 29 | Here the problem is to decide when a party is not dealing on the others standard terms . |
| 30 | It is not binding on the courts , although it remains a treaty obligation for the Government to ensure that the law conforms with it . |