Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am not anticipating a January reshuffle , ’ he said .
2 Heavier passengers will cause greater injury to others in an accident if they are not wearing a seat belt .
3 Films endorsing or encouraging depravity are not granted a BBFC certificate in Britain , and few such films were available as evidence to Royal Commissions until the advent of video .
4 The precedents in this chapter ( with the exception of Precedents 9 and 10 which are not following a court order ) should not attract a charge to stamp duty as a result of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( see Chapter 2 generally as to stamp duty ) .
5 A spokesman said : ‘ We are not making a PR film for the Army . ’
6 ‘ We 're not constructing a water park , ’ he said , demolishing her tirade in one short sentence .
7 Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding .
8 Right , so we only do it once we 've got the formal , so we 're not generating a research approval form for , unnecessarily ?
9 But they promise solemnly to retire forever if it ever happens , so you can enjoy their sharp and amusing little ditties in the secure knowledge that you 're not creating a Barron Knights for the '90s .
10 No the suggestion is we 're in the golf club and we 're doing a planner we 're not doing a score card
11 You 're not making a christmas cake are you ?
12 It 's a safe bet you 're not hugging a phone book ,
13 I mean , you 're not missing a light bulb or anything , are you ? ’
14 " Thank goodness , I 'm not having a heart attack " was my reaction .
15 ‘ I 'm not running a Sunday School outing .
16 " I 'm not running a riding school , " Matthew protested .
17 In spite of legislation which makes seat belt wearing compulsory , it is a matter of concern that 45% of the car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident .
18 He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb .
19 It should be remembered , however , that the results of this project were obtained from 4th year pupils , not the 5th year , and that the schools involved were not operating a GCSE curriculum .
20 An impressive 17 per cent of the potential readers were not buying a Sunday paper at the moment .
21 The Communists , critics argued , were merely in search of political stability , and security and were not attempting a world takeover .
22 ‘ We were not offering a babysitting service . ’
23 Members should note that the current intention is not to hold a January meeting as the first Friday of the month is New Year 's Day .
24 Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement .
25 The crisis centre is not called a crisis centre for nothing .
26 The company is not making a profit forecast , but profits for the 36 weeks to 9 January have grown to £9.79 million .
27 In my constituency it has stimulated the introduction of three new generating plants , two of them based at oil terminals at Shell haven , where the oil industry welcomes the progress of moves towards gas and is not mounting a rearguard action against it , as the coal industry seems to be doing .
28 The proposal is not to introduce a wealth tax under the form that it has been proposed elsewhere .
29 He 's not let a league goal in yet .
30 He was not wearing a crash helmet .
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