Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not taking an easy road and that I risk not being understood by many fellow countrymen , " he wrote , " but this is the only road I can follow in conscience . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |
| 3 | In using this term I am not making the simplistic assumption that people who hold this position are sick . |
| 4 | I am not making the exorbitant claim that every black youth reaching adolescence in the 1970s and early 1980s underwent such traumas . |
| 5 | In any case , I am not making an official request . ’ |
| 6 | We are not suggesting a sharp break at the turn of the nineteenth century or at the accession of Queen Victoria or whatever . |
| 7 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 8 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 9 | While other dictionary publishers are not taking the extreme stance taken by COBUILD , corpora are being recognised as increasingly useful tools for creating up-to-date dictionaries that accurately reflect the language . |
| 10 | We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward . |
| 11 | If you are not using the original version , you should say so ( e.g. by noting " second edition " or " reprinted version " or " facsimile " ) . |
| 12 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 13 | Try to be as sincere and enthusiastic as possible and be conversational — you are not addressing a public meeting . |
| 14 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ That means opening doors so that people are not denied the best education and the best health care ; it means that we must have equal opportunity , greater fairness . ’ |
| 16 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 17 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 18 | All fixed date actions to which the rule does apply are now subject to automatic directions ( see Chapter 11 ) and are not given a return day at the outset . |
| 19 | But when hospitals are struggling to stay within budgets such initiatives are not given a high priority . |
| 20 | This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus . |
| 21 | I 'm sure those fucking Officers are not eating the same crap as we are . ’ |
| 22 | Small wonder , therefore , that egg producers feel they are not getting a fair deal . |
| 23 | There is now problems on the streets of , there is anger in the outer areas that through your postal code politics people are not getting a fair deal in the outer areas of this city . |
| 24 | Local states are not accorded a leading role in decisions about welfare . |
| 25 | They are not questioning the potential value of , in this context , high-quality environmental information per se . |
| 26 | Reserve requirements on banks will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage . |
| 27 | But he warned : ‘ It would be naive to think the Provisional IRA are not planning a major attack on the British mainland . ’ |
| 28 | But he warned : ‘ It would be naive to think the Provisional IRA are not planning a major attack on the British mainland . ’ |
| 29 | But he warned : ‘ It would be naive to think the Provisional IRA are not planning a major attack on the British mainland . ’ |
| 30 | Those who use the term ‘ paragraph ’ to describe a unit in the structural analysis of written discourse go to some trouble to point out that they are not describing the orthographic paragraph . |