Example sentences of "[am/are] not [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In opposing human spirit to human force I am not simply setting cognition against physique . |
| 2 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 3 | But these changes are not just taking place at regional level . |
| 4 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 5 | We are not just talking power-dressing for women ; Armani makes men look even better than the fairer sex in a way that 's so thoroughly macho it 's no wonder the world 's aggro merchants have taken him to their hearts as eagerly as Hollywood 's glitterati . |
| 6 | won the Northumberland and Durham Division One title with a resounding 42–3 win playing the sort of open rugby they are not often given credit for . |
| 7 | This pattern of occasional rewards ( something we all experience in daily life ) will help your child to maintain a pattern of behaviour even when you are not there to give encouragement to him . |
| 8 | Estates Services are not only providing accommodation for AEA staff , at Harwell they also have some unofficial tenants — a family of little owls . |
| 9 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |