Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In using this term I am not making the simplistic assumption that people who hold this position are sick . |
| 2 | I am not making the exorbitant claim that every black youth reaching adolescence in the 1970s and early 1980s underwent such traumas . |
| 3 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 4 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 5 | While other dictionary publishers are not taking the extreme stance taken by COBUILD , corpora are being recognised as increasingly useful tools for creating up-to-date dictionaries that accurately reflect the language . |
| 6 | We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward . |
| 7 | If you are not using the original version , you should say so ( e.g. by noting " second edition " or " reprinted version " or " facsimile " ) . |
| 8 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ That means opening doors so that people are not denied the best education and the best health care ; it means that we must have equal opportunity , greater fairness . ’ |
| 10 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 11 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 12 | This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus . |
| 13 | I 'm sure those fucking Officers are not eating the same crap as we are . ’ |
| 14 | They are not questioning the potential value of , in this context , high-quality environmental information per se . |
| 15 | Those who use the term ‘ paragraph ’ to describe a unit in the structural analysis of written discourse go to some trouble to point out that they are not describing the orthographic paragraph . |
| 16 | If you are not putting the proper bodywork on the ball which is coming towards you and which you are taking on the rise , then you wo n't have the control . |
| 17 | A placebo controlled trial does not present this problem because subjects give informed consent , but regularly in case-control studies subjects are not told the true reason for the study for fear that the study will be biased . |
| 18 | These two baselines are not measuring the same behaviour and are next to useless as a comparison . |
| 19 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 20 | Alder Valley , who used to operate a Monday to Saturday Alton–Whitehill–Liphook–Haslemere route , are not retaining the latter section . |
| 21 | So the forest has a sacred character too ; men may go regularly into it , but women are not permitted the same ease of access . |
| 22 | They are not adopting the broader role that we envisaged . |
| 23 | ‘ We are not saying the Labour party organised the poll tax non-payment campaign . |
| 24 | It is one of the enduring sadnesses of people in such relationships that they are not offered the same respect and sympathy as man and wife . |
| 25 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe we could meet when you 're not riding the next day . ’ |
| 27 | And from a wider point of view , We 're not helping the genuine trader . |
| 28 | FRONT GATE : They got the hall and the bridge , but they 're not getting the front gate . |
| 29 | oh no I hope you 're not getting the Chinese flu |
| 30 | Maybe you 're not getting the full story and all the facts . |