Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am not looking for a ghost . |
| 3 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 4 | My business interests are declared , but , contrary to some popular media suppositions , I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not going into the barn ! ’ |
| 9 | It is possible that I am not sitting on a chair at all , but lying on a sofa . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Indeed there are no really weak moments vocally , although I am not convinced by the style of all the vocal cadenzas . |
| 12 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 13 | At that time , I could have got that girl a bed straight away in a decent place — I am not talking about a mattress on a floor . |
| 14 | I am not talking about the phrase , ’ federal vocation ’ . |
| 15 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The night is black and there are no streetlights , and I feel as though I am not driving on a road at all , but forcing my way through clotted bushes . |
| 18 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 19 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 20 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 21 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The front arches are not repeated on the back because a credence table is a side table and will always be against a wall . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As I have said , we are not dealing with a demon but something worse , a soul steeped in mortal sin . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is particularly important to check that findings are not generalized beyond the group studied . |