Example sentences of "be not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 2 | After the weekend the couple go their separate ways again and are not seen together again until : OCTOBER 14 |
| 3 | Searches are not made as frequently as staff would like , because they say , shortages mean there simply are n't enough officers to do it . |
| 4 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 5 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 6 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 7 | Stress-relaxation tests are not performed as often as creep tests because many investigators believe they are less readily understood . |
| 8 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 9 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 10 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
| 11 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 12 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 13 | For when I plead with him he says , ‘ I 'm not going any slower than this . |
| 14 | CHRIS De Burgh stunned owners of a top London recording studio when he told them : ‘ I 'm not working here again unless you change the carpet ’ . |
| 15 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 16 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 17 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
| 18 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 19 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 20 | advise the bank/organisation if the policy is not renewed as soon as practicable after such non-renewal has come to their knowledge ; |
| 21 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 22 | The vendor should ensure that the sale agreement provides that the purchaser is obliged to pay that part of the price that is not disputed as soon as possible and that interest is paid on the additional amount if any that the purchaser is subsequently required to pay . |
| 23 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 24 | As we noted above , the latest 1988 BCS indicates , that indeed , crime is not rising as steeply as police statistics imply . |
| 25 | Because it is a large fish , it is not kept as often as it should be , as it is a very peaceful fish for its size . |
| 26 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 27 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 28 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |
| 29 | This is a safety net for press coverage which falls outside statutory protection — because , for example , it is not published as soon as practicable after the event . |
| 30 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |