Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not attempting to lay down the law , but simply wish to voice my opinion that ethics should be the first guideline of those dealing with public resources . |
| 2 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 3 | " The venerable Stalinist institution rejects and pushes aside authentic and ambitious Leninists who are not allowed to carve out a career in the PCF because of their bourgeois origins . |
| 4 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 5 | But account-holders who do not put in the maximum in any one year are not allowed to top up the account in the following or any subsequent years . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're not seen to go out a lot , you 're a failure , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're not trying to stir up a hornet 's nest but we do want to let everyone know what we 're trying to achieve , ’ campaign spokesman Steve Melia said . |
| 8 | That 's if we 're not going to set off the alarm system ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And you 're not going to grow up an Irish yob ! |
| 10 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 11 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |