Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
| 2 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | As stressed earlier , I am not arguing for a revived regional geography per se , but rather for ‘ a regional perspective that informs all geographical activity ’ Johnston , 1990b , p. 135 ) . |
| 4 | No , I am not going to a fancy dress party , but to work . |
| 5 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 6 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 7 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 8 | I am not persuaded by the hon. Gentleman 's arguments that to have proportional representation would necessarily persuade Glaswegians to vote Conservative . |
| 9 | Fences are not rushed in the stormy outbursts of No. 2 — though I still think he hurries Chopin 's dramatic interruption ( that fortissimo discord and pause ) in the last few bars . |
| 10 | It will be essential to drill shallow boreholes between the exploratory wells to ensure that any steeply dipping fractures are not missed by the tomographic software . |
| 11 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |
| 12 | Honesty exists when a document is enforceable on the basis of its ostensible ( as opposed to ‘ small print ’ ) terms , or when express warranties are not disclaimed in the small print . |
| 13 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 14 | And horrified Superintendent Peter Edwards of British Transport Police , said : ‘ We are very fortunate we are not dealing with a major disaster . |
| 15 | It should be noted that in this offence we are not dealing with the hypothetical by-stander . |
| 16 | ‘ We are not dealing with an orthodox war , a single enemy , a front line or clearly identifiable targets , ’ he said in a letter to former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen . |
| 17 | Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I 've found the staff at most libraries very helpful … that is , once they 've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant ! |
| 18 | In Section 7–2 we start with distortions in the factor market , where returns are not equalized in the two sectors of the economy ( for example , because of a union ‘ premium ’ in the corporate sector ) and then go on to a monopoly mark-up pricing policy . |
| 19 | The first situation considered is that where there are distortions in the factor market , so that the returns are not equalized in the two sectors . |
| 20 | If you are not leaving with a sour taste in your mouth , it may be viable for you to enter into an agreement with the company that you will continue to provide it with the benefit of your expertise , pursuant to a consultancy agreement . |
| 21 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |
| 22 | He argues that apart from receiving a higher grant , health authorities are not scrutinised to the same degree as SSds and believes they mismanage the money . |
| 23 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 24 | Although there are many laws on the statute book ( often dating from colonial administration ) , they have either become dead letters or are not integrated into a coherent national conservation programme ( FAO Soils Bulletin No. 30 , 1976b , lists various legislation for different countries ) . |
| 25 | These themes are not integrated into a tight ideological system , which can compute attitudinal positions with the precision of a mathematical formula . |
| 26 | The sharp end of routine policing always falls on the economically marginal , those who live out their lives in public places which routine police patrols regulate , and those who are not integrated into the mainstream institutions of economic and political life . |
| 27 | The lessons of the Public Health era often seem forgotten in the West and are not integrated into the medico-technical intervention model which has been ‘ exported ’ to other countries . |
| 28 | Upstream promoter regions are not recognized by the truncated RNA polymerases in contrast to the wild-type enzyme |
| 29 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 30 | The history of the mammals in the Tertiary involved not only this one major diversification , but several , with major extinctions between , so that the largest mammals of the earlier parts of the Tertiary are not related to the large mammals of the Recent . |