Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not advocating thrombolysis in the absence of that , but provided that is available and he keeps his head and the family respect the GP , then he should be giving thrombolysis . |
| 2 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 3 | In saying ‘ Do such-and-such ’ I am not giving expression to a belief . |
| 4 | The inclusion of the notion of subjectivity in the above definition might seem surprising here , but I am not equating deixis with a concept that stands in rough opposition to objectivity . |
| 5 | In particular it seems that members in the UK are not taking advantage of the scheme to the same extent as members in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland . |
| 6 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 7 | Teenagers like to experiment and to feel rebellious , and problems can arise if they are not given guidance in the use of alcohol . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not providing food in a normal environment , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Evidence of this kind is , however , essential if community care practitioners in the world of purchasing and providing , assessment and care management are not to lose sight of the fact that the consumer may award the quality kitemark as much for the professional who has time to listen , as for the streamlined meals service . |
| 10 | Disorganized capitalism remains capitalism , and they make it clear that they are not bidding farewell to the working class . |
| 11 | Can my right hon. Friend confirm that our European partners are not losing sight of the need to make the European Commission democratically accountable , any more than they are losing sight of the need to conform to the European Commission directives that we scrupulously honour ? |
| 12 | It will be said that we are not doing justice to the viewpoint of the opposing group . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying . |
| 14 | We 're not serving cheese across the counter here.If you had a ticket that said you were 5th in the queue you would be falsely reassured if the people ahead of you were seriously ill or dying . |
| 15 | And the return should be quite good because you 're not paying tax on the , on the investment , if you cash early then you pay tax on it . |
| 16 | I 'm not putting money in the pocket of the bloody Hamiltons more than I can help . |
| 17 | Just as you learn you learn your basic modes of essay writing in essays that I 'm not going mark for A Level exams , okay , erm , but there is another way . |
| 18 | If Dave were not to take part in the cabal ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Party , but that 's all ’ ) , what was he doing later on that evening ? |
| 19 | In the general improvement of the clergy , canon 18 of the Fourth Lateran Council declared that henceforth clergy were not to take part in the pronouncement of the death penalty , to fight or duel , or to perform surgery which involved cutting or burning . |
| 20 | Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey . |
| 21 | Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ; |
| 22 | Mr Major rejected the appeal and insisted the donations from Nadir 's companies had not been illegal , even though they were not made public at the time . |
| 23 | Iraq replied with a denunciation of the allied bombing of civilian targets , and the declaration that , as the allies were not providing information on the true level of their air losses , it was impossible to treat all captured airmen as prisoners-of-war . |
| 24 | In the course of a statement to a congressional committee on Jan. 23 Greenspan said that such comments were not putting pressure on the Federal Reserve , but were merely statements that lower interest rates were preferable to higher ones . |
| 25 | In Germany , they were not allowed access to the main stations . |
| 26 | Government statistics show that the February 1993 seasonally unadjusted figure for unemployment in Scotland stood at 257,092 : 85,000 unemployed were not claiming benefit in the four weeks before the Government 's February figures , but were also seeking work , according to the Labour Force Survey . |
| 27 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |
| 28 | This is not to cast doubt on the sincerity of Papert and his colleagues . |
| 29 | Even if your centre is not taking part in the pilot , we should be glad to know your views ( for a contact name and telephone number see page 4 ) . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman is being neither reasonable nor fair to the management or work force in British mines and is not taking account of the pain and suffering through which some of them had to go to achieve that improvement . |