Example sentences of "be not [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not anticipating a January reshuffle , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Heavier passengers will cause greater injury to others in an accident if they are not wearing a seat belt . |
| 3 | Films endorsing or encouraging depravity are not granted a BBFC certificate in Britain , and few such films were available as evidence to Royal Commissions until the advent of video . |
| 4 | The precedents in this chapter ( with the exception of Precedents 9 and 10 which are not following a court order ) should not attract a charge to stamp duty as a result of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( see Chapter 2 generally as to stamp duty ) . |
| 5 | A spokesman said : ‘ We are not making a PR film for the Army . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not constructing a water park , ’ he said , demolishing her tirade in one short sentence . |
| 7 | Er and as for budgets erm you know I 'd , I 'd be saying to people come on you 're not buying a raffle ticket , let's talk serious funding . |
| 8 | Right , so we only do it once we 've got the formal , so we 're not generating a research approval form for , unnecessarily ? |
| 9 | But they promise solemnly to retire forever if it ever happens , so you can enjoy their sharp and amusing little ditties in the secure knowledge that you 're not creating a Barron Knights for the '90s . |
| 10 | No the suggestion is we 're in the golf club and we 're doing a planner we 're not doing a score card |
| 11 | You 're not making a christmas cake are you ? |
| 12 | It 's a safe bet you 're not hugging a phone book , |
| 13 | I mean , you 're not missing a light bulb or anything , are you ? ’ |
| 14 | " Thank goodness , I 'm not having a heart attack " was my reaction . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not running a Sunday School outing . |
| 16 | " I 'm not running a riding school , " Matthew protested . |
| 17 | You wo n't know it 's the real thing unless you ( and she ) still feel the same in , oh , a year or so at least ; that 's the only way to prove you are n't living a dragonfly mistake . |
| 18 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 19 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 20 | In spite of legislation which makes seat belt wearing compulsory , it is a matter of concern that 45% of the car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident . |
| 21 | He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb . |
| 22 | It should be remembered , however , that the results of this project were obtained from 4th year pupils , not the 5th year , and that the schools involved were not operating a GCSE curriculum . |
| 23 | An impressive 17 per cent of the potential readers were not buying a Sunday paper at the moment . |
| 24 | The Communists , critics argued , were merely in search of political stability , and security and were not attempting a world takeover . |
| 25 | ‘ We were not offering a babysitting service . ’ |
| 26 | Members should note that the current intention is not to hold a January meeting as the first Friday of the month is New Year 's Day . |
| 27 | Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement . |
| 28 | The crisis centre is not called a crisis centre for nothing . |
| 29 | The company is not making a profit forecast , but profits for the 36 weeks to 9 January have grown to £9.79 million . |
| 30 | In my constituency it has stimulated the introduction of three new generating plants , two of them based at oil terminals at Shell haven , where the oil industry welcomes the progress of moves towards gas and is not mounting a rearguard action against it , as the coal industry seems to be doing . |