Example sentences of "be not [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
| 2 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 3 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 4 | I am not talking here of the one-year goals and five-year goals ( often money-oriented ) so beloved of many mode business writers — although these too have their place . |
| 5 | I am not talking only about the position in countries such as Germany or Japan , but about second or third-world countries . |
| 6 | What is even more frightening is that the decision-making down here — I am not talking only about the Government , but about the media and the City of London — is conditioned by the thinking of the south-east and of London in particular . |
| 7 | But once I have passed my test , I am not allowed out on the road without insurance . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | However , standard terms are not prepared simply for the court , but for everyday use by the drafter 's business client and its trading partners ; headings and layout will help those persons to use the document , acting as convenient " road signs " to identify and locate relevant parts of the document . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 15 | These two contrasting events emphasize the central fact that even natural hazards are not defined solely by the characteristics of the event but by the interaction of those events with the human occupation of the threatened area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Others are not employed directly by the ruling class and work in the liberal arts and service professions . |
| 18 | This is easily done if the point cams are not placed exactly in the 24 stitch placings . |
| 19 | From this , we conclude that residues 1-193 of c-Jun are not recognised effectively by the DNA-PK even when tethered to DNA . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | An ESRC-funded study at the department of psychology of the University College of Swansea of 52 people in their twenties with Down 's syndrome found that there is obviously confusion about who can and can not vote , that there is clear overlap in the abilities of those who vote and those who do not and that decisions on voting are not made strictly on the abilities of the person with Down 's syndrome . |
| 22 | These terminological changes are not made merely for the sake of variety but because I believe the substitute terms convey their meaning more pointedly than Marx 's originals . |
| 23 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 24 | Once again , we must remember that the results are not determined only by the experimental vibration frequencies , but by various assumptions made in the course of setting up and solving the problem . |
| 25 | Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion . |
| 26 | There are over 28,000 miles of public bridleways and 6,000 miles of byways in England and Wales where cyclists legally have a right of way , but there can be a conflict of interests if certain codes of conduct are not observed elsewhere in the countryside . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Equally important , the interest and wishes of the old are not created spontaneously in the present . |
| 29 | These dithiadiazoles are held together in dimeric pairs through S — S interactions , as in , though they are not held together in the trans -type configuration , but in a variety of other orientations . |
| 30 | Some organisations provide detailed lists of items which are allowable under the disturbance allowance ; others merely state that it is intended to meet all other ‘ out-of-pocket ’ expenses incurred during relocation which are not specified elsewhere in the company 's policy . |