Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I am not expert enough to say which of the banding systems best fits the bill . |
2 | Some , at least , of this confusion and inconsistency arise out of misunderstanding as to what is meant by Wages for Housework , so before proceeding any further I propose to change the term in order to indicate ( a ) that I am not spokeswoman for , nor even in complete agreement with , the campaign of that name ; ( b ) that I do not propose to be sidetracked into an interesting discussion of the precise scientific definition of ‘ wage ’ ; what I am talking about is cash , money , pound notes , that to which a housewife is not entitled , that to which she should be ; and ( c ) that there is housework and housework . |
3 | ‘ I am not policeman , ’ he said . |
4 | ‘ I am not cross . |
5 | ‘ I am not family ! ’ |
6 | I am not flavour of the week in some quarters as you may well imagine . |
7 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
8 | Roger L'Estrange produced a pamphlet condemning the Whigs and Nonconformists as republicans , accusing them of wanting to " pursue their Revenge on us [ the Church of England ] " , and he asked " Whether the Clergy of the C. of E. are not concern 'd to be as diligent against Phanaticism now , as of late against Popery " . |
9 | In considering the claims filed against accountants , it must be emphasised that in many cases the underlying reasons for such suits are not negligence or incompetence on the part of auditors , but the consequence of faulty business policies and management decisions , or even carefully planned and executed frauds . |
10 | It was , I think , common cause among all of us who were involved in the talks last year , and who , I hope , will be involved in the talks in the future , that they are not peace talks per se ; they are talks about a political settlement , not only in terms of Northern Ireland but in terms of the relations between Northern Ireland and the republic and between Great Britain and the republic . |
11 | Such a position , however , involves accepting that the appropriate units of analysis are not surface forms , but higher-level semantic and discourse elements . |
12 | Sadness comes from the incessant playing of the primeval recordings of the mind ; and these recordings are not noise alone but they are like films of horror . |
13 | The application of the law of tort ( which is , of course , part of private law ) to the police is a reflection of the fact that constitutionally police officers are not government officials but enjoy independence from the government of the day . |
14 | The latest available figures — they are not Government figures because they will not publish theirs — show that in the south-east Government spending per head was £1,876 but it was only £1 , 707 in the north — 10 per cent . |
15 | These are not government controlled . |
16 | The parents are not church members , the child is not baptised but wants baptised , who makes the promises ? |
17 | A Brewers Society spokesman said : ‘ Like any industry we are not recession proof . ’ |
18 | The curved lines are not stress trajectories but are contours of stress concentration for stress at right angles and parallel to the plane of the crack . |
19 | And if empty pews and soaring divorce rates are not evidence enough of its dwindling authority , one of its most famous figures has just been defrocked . |
20 | Thus , although longitude bias of the VGP paths is definitive evidence for core-mantle interaction , simple VGP paths are not evidence of near-dipolar transition fields . |
21 | ( 3 ) The replies that you give are not evidence against you in any later criminal trial that may arise from this case . |
22 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
23 | I it is competitive because people are not kind of getting the money that we pay . |
24 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
25 | As Pascal observes in The Pensées , ‘ Nothing strengthens the case of scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptic . |
26 | and our growth is offset by savings and they are not budget , they are not cuts in services , they are savings which of efficiency , erm they would would should and would happen erm in any case . |
27 | Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money . |
28 | It is a matter of pride to us that we can boast of several scholars , in the first rank , who are not university teachers . |
29 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
30 | If we are not cost effective we go out of business . ’ |