Example sentences of "be not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But once I have passed my test , I am not allowed out on the road without insurance .
2 Perhaps you have observed me , I am often around , if you are not fixed up at the moment what about me waiting for you at the bus stop tonight ?
3 By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ?
4 It has also helped write rules for community cable access and worked to ensure that the poor are not cut off from the benefits of new telephone technologies .
5 Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority .
6 If the documents in question are not sent out with a letter , but are signed at the conveyancer 's office , then it is important to set out a memorandum recording the date and time at which the document was signed and also how the document was explained to the client .
7 Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life .
8 What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ?
9 Perhaps monotony , fragmentation and excessive pace are noted by few housewives and are not bound up with a dominant feeling of dissatisfaction .
10 Most workers have no idea of what is done with ‘ their ’ savings , even in the case of pension funds which are not farmed out to the merchant banks for management .
11 For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base .
12 ‘ They are not writhing around like a Soho sex show but it is outrageous compared to the traditional performance of Swan Lake . ’
13 It may be a boundary drawn for the toddler 's safety ( ‘ You are not to go out of the front gate ’ ) ; it may be to do with the teenager 's wellbeing ( ‘ You do an hour 's homework ’ or ‘ You have to tell me who you 're out with and where you 'll be ’ ) .
14 Section 56 deals with transfers of works in electronic form and the position with respect to copies which are not transferred along with the original software .
15 Care should be taken to ensure that the tenant 's works are not carried out under an obligation to the landlord or the tenant could be disadvantaged on rent review .
16 These functions are not carried out in a vacuum ; they are affected by certain key contingencies or variables .
17 Government and hospitals are not opting out of the N H S at all , they are every much of it a as part of the Health Service as they every have been and you all know that and it 's about time you stopped saying it .
18 Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children .
19 The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings .
20 It is the South-east that needs new settlements , if we are not to end up with a town-and-country muesli of interest to no one .
21 They represent , in Russell 's colourful phrase , the realm of " logical fictions " , and while the life as we know it obviously would be inconceivable without great many of such " fictions " ( they include , among other things , all the spatio-temporal objects of our everyday experience ) , there are a large number of others which are neither very useful nor indispensable and should be carefully guarded against if we are not to end up with an ontology crowded with all sorts of phoney entities .
22 As with all great adventures and challenges , the rewards and achievements are not handed out on a plate .
23 In other words the access paths for joining or separating relations are not set up with the data .
24 Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ;
25 If there are special risks relating to a particular transaction which are not brought out in the Risk Warning Notice , these must be specifically disclosed .
26 What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ?
27 Interestingly , the shrouds are taken down to a deep , galvanised , mild steel I-beam which runs between this bulkhead and the main bulkhead forward of the mast : ties are not taken down to the hull itself , so the lockers and shelving behind the settees remain unobstructed .
28 The auctioneers Phillips have asked us to point out that they are not giving up on the continent , although they are reducing their representation there ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 October 1992 , p. 27 ) .
29 The formal duties and responsibilities of the office of a British Prime Minister are not laid down in a constitution or statute .
30 This in turn depends on the price of the tickets , the size of the prizes and whether these are taxable or not , all details which are not laid down in the Bill .
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