Example sentences of "be not [verb] [noun] at the " in BNC.

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1 UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots …
2 Similar proportions were not seeking work at the time of the survey .
3 Twelve per cent of students were not seeking employment at the time of the survey ;
4 Mr Major rejected the appeal and insisted the donations from Nadir 's companies had not been illegal , even though they were not made public at the time .
5 It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either .
6 This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect .
7 In acknowledgement of British decency , it must be said that Gandhi possessed the supreme advantage in his campaigns of knowing that , so long as he confined his activities to non-violent protest , he was not risking death at the hands of the authorities .
8 So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort .
9 He erm he was n't giving evidence at the enquiry , but erm it was at his suggestion that I was asked to meet with the Chief Planning Officer prior to the to talk about alternative sites .
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