Example sentences of "he [be] not [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity .
2 His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience .
3 It aims to secure both that the consumer is not misled and also that he is not left in ignorance of matters of which he should lie informed .
4 Unlike his mother and father , who rarely make their presence felt on anything , he is not constrained by protocol .
5 Some fences can be deceiving from a distance , so the horse must be given clear aids as to what to expect so he is not taken by surprise .
6 confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do .
7 But , against that , the presence of Neil Edwards and Troy Coker ( if he is not suffering from jet lag ) in the line-outs should work in Quins ' favour .
8 Because he is not going for discovery or new connection or progression , but only to repeat upon himself a known reaction .
9 Well , since he 's not pressed for time , perhaps one more .
10 But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him
11 And the Je , the Philippine jailer , he cries out a question which , I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with , but he just cries out , what must I do to be saved ?
12 James said with sick irritation : ‘ Leave the man alone , Randall , he 's not made of eggshell . ’
13 ‘ HALF THE world blows and half the world sucks … ’ sings Richard Fairbrass and he 's not talking about soup .
14 Luckily , he 's not playing for profit .
15 He 's not standing for parliament !
16 Well he 's not bothered at moment , Gary , is he ?
17 He 's not responding to pain stimulus . ’
18 He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer .
19 The Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , José Durao Barroso , chaired the meetings , but stressed that he was not acting as mediator , a role still officially held by Zaïre 's President Mobutu .
20 And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once !
21 There was something in his voice that made her believe he was not speaking from malice himself .
22 He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them .
23 She had come to suspect that her affair with him would not be straightforward , that he was not sent by heaven to redeem her from chastity .
24 Abbot Ælfric stressed Christ 's humility , describing in his homily The Exaltation of the Holy Cross how an angel reminded the seventh-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius that he " would not encircle his head with a golden crown , but with one of thorns " , and that before the crucifixion " he was not clothed in purple , nor adorned with a royal crown , nor rode he … upon a horse but upon the back of an ass " .
25 He was not chosen for Republic of Ireland 's World Cup warm-up game against Switzerland because of the Barnsley match .
26 It surprised him that he was not drawn into conversation with the two at his table , but they evidently spoke only to their own .
27 His brothers had not replied , and his parents wrote that they hoped he was not hurrying into marriage , but that he was old enough to decide for himself .
28 In Bradshaw v Rugby Portland Cement Ltd , 1972 IRLR 8 , although the offence was of a serious nature , the tribunal recommended re-engagement because ( 1 ) the offence had nothing to do with his work , ( 2 ) he was not brought into contact with female staff , ( 3 ) the nature of the offence was unlikely to upset his relationships with his workmates — a gang of men — and ( 4 ) it did not expose anyone to ‘ moral danger ’ .
29 Hankin was promised an interview at the end of the season when the board made it clear he was not blamed for relegation .
30 My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there .
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