Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 2 | My business interests are declared , but , contrary to some popular media suppositions , I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation . |
| 3 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not going into the barn ! ’ |
| 6 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 7 | Indeed there are no really weak moments vocally , although I am not convinced by the style of all the vocal cadenzas . |
| 8 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 9 | I am not talking about the phrase , ’ federal vocation ’ . |
| 10 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 11 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 12 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 13 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 14 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 15 | Lord Fraser was pressed by MPs with examples of rises in contributions that people would have to pay towards legal aid and said : ‘ I am not shrinking from the fact that there will be increases in the contribution for some people . ’ |
| 16 | With me the choirs never use music , which has the double effect : their eyes are not fixed on the page in front of them and they can communicate directly with me . |
| 17 | Because the Delta design incorporates leading edge spars which are not fixed to the spine , and can therefore flex , they are self-adjusting for a broad variance in wind speeds . |
| 18 | The front arches are not repeated on the back because a credence table is a side table and will always be against a wall . |
| 19 | Smith suggests that ‘ the concept of policy denotes … deliberate choice of action or inaction , rather than the effects of interrelating forces ’ : he emphasizes ‘ inaction ’ and reminds us that ‘ attention should not focus exclusively on decisions which produce change , but must also be sensitive to those which resist change and are difficult to observe because they are not represented in the policy-making process by legislative enactment ’ . |
| 20 | I fully support it , and I believe it is an option for those schools who have Local Education Authorities that are not progressing in the way in which the parents think they should . |
| 21 | Moreover , in these models , if the firms have different and non-constant marginal costs , a further source of inefficiency is that total market output will be produced at more than minimum total cost — the marginal costs of firms are not equalized at the equilibrium . |
| 22 | It is particularly important to check that findings are not generalized beyond the group studied . |
| 23 | Yet this still means that over a thousand African languages are not heard on the radio . |
| 24 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
| 25 | Although Catholics are not cited in the Smolensk Archive with reference to the taking of church valuables , their activity can be traced from other sources . |
| 26 | Galileo was less successful in explaining why loose objects are not flung from the surface of a spinning earth . |
| 27 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 28 | Although the two systems are not integrated at the moment , they will be eventually . |
| 29 | The only forces stationed on former East German territory would be " German units of territorial defence which are not integrated into the alliance structures " to which united Germany would belong . |
| 30 | Article 5. ( 1 ) Until the completion of the withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces from the territory of the present GDR and of Berlin in accordance with Article 4 of the present treaty , only German territorial defence units which are not integrated into the alliance structures to which German armed forces in the rest of German territory are assigned will be stationed in that territory as armed forces of the united Germany . |