Example sentences of "be not [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he has been discovering , the issues which excite New Yorkers are not rising levels of crime , poverty and the deteriorating quality of life . |
| 2 | But we are not talking terms of plot one and plot two we 're simply saying |
| 3 | Ms MccGwire said : ‘ I think it 's a terrible shame the judges are not upholding freedom of speech and the public 's right to know , because that 's what the case is all about . ’ |
| 4 | They are not swilling horns of ale but chewing betel . ) |
| 5 | William III is really William IV ( and we 're not talking William of Orange , who was variously known as Sweet William and Stinking Billy on the opposing sides of the religious divide in Ulster ) : the Daily Telegraph City Diary notes that Microsoft Corp chairman William Gates III is really William Gates IV but his dad wanted to seem more of a regular guy to his army pals and so he promoted himself to William Gates Jr . |
| 6 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 7 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 8 | Emotions were n't considered part of school life . |
| 9 | This is not to evade questions of strategy and tactics , merely to place them in an appropriate context . |
| 10 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 11 | But when he was n't conducting affairs of state , there 's nothing he enjoyed more for getting away from it all , than fly fishing . |
| 12 | But then he was n't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water . |