Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 2 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 3 | Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number . |
| 4 | After the weekend the couple go their separate ways again and are not seen together again until : OCTOBER 14 |
| 5 | Searches are not made as frequently as staff would like , because they say , shortages mean there simply are n't enough officers to do it . |
| 6 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 7 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 8 | From the available evidence , it seems fair to conclude that the typical legal sanction against corporate crime does not act as a general deterrent — others are not put off merely because some corporations and their executives have been fined , particularly when the fines are comparatively small and tax-deductable — and the evidence , such as it is , suggests that a specific deterrent function may operate , but only to deter corporations from recommitting the same offence . |
| 9 | ‘ under English law , a convicted prisoner , in spite of his imprisonment , retains all civil rights which are not taken away expressly or by necessary implication … |
| 10 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 11 | Stress-relaxation tests are not performed as often as creep tests because many investigators believe they are less readily understood . |
| 12 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 13 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 14 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
| 15 | Er I 've got two I 've just just been two schoolkids who are not doing very well and they the end of term they 've you know the teacher 's said they 're sort of very far behind and they need to do some work during the holidays . |
| 16 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 17 | Plans for the next show , however , are not running so smoothly and Pigott Smith does n't hide his frustration at a system which seems to be hindering his every move . |
| 18 | I 'm not staying around just so you can use me as your verbal punch-bag again . |
| 19 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 20 | For when I plead with him he says , ‘ I 'm not going any slower than this . |
| 21 | CHRIS De Burgh stunned owners of a top London recording studio when he told them : ‘ I 'm not working here again unless you change the carpet ’ . |
| 22 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 23 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 24 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
| 25 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 26 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 27 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 28 | advise the bank/organisation if the policy is not renewed as soon as practicable after such non-renewal has come to their knowledge ; |
| 29 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 30 | The vendor should ensure that the sale agreement provides that the purchaser is obliged to pay that part of the price that is not disputed as soon as possible and that interest is paid on the additional amount if any that the purchaser is subsequently required to pay . |