Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [not/n't] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , lest you think that I am too good to be true , let me at once add that I am not in the slightest inclined to gamble . |
| 2 | And I 'm trying to get it through your arrogant skull that I 'm not in the market for a casual roll in the hay just because we happen to be sharing a villa for a few days ! ’ |
| 3 | I admit that I was not on the Committee and that I am on a steeply rising part of the learning curve , but I shall reach the asymptote fairly soon . |
| 4 | Unlike the Minister , I am not sorry that I was not on the Committee ; I am pleased that I missed it . |
| 5 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 6 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 7 | After I had finally collected my British passport from Petty France , I bought an Evening Standard and found that I was n't in the team . |
| 8 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me in Brighton when we met that I was n't in the team ? |
| 9 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 10 | In print she boasts that she is not in the least attracted by drugs , even scared to touch ‘ ordinary cheerful liquor ’ . |
| 11 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 12 | She could n't believe that she was n't in the baker 's next door . |
| 13 | It did n't matter that she was n't in the straits he believed her to be in ; his threat was enough to chill her blood . |
| 14 | ‘ And that you are n't in the middle of watching your favourite television programme , ’ said Mark conscientiously , for his parochial visiting now made this question automatic . |
| 15 | One or two people said that you were n't in the Americans ' league . ‘ |
| 16 | After the war , a doctor who gave him a check-up ( incredibly enough not recognising him ) remarked : ‘ One can see that you were n't in the war . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Justice Jowitt told Anderson : ‘ I accept that you were not on the prowl looking for a victim and that it was by chance that this young lady got into your car . |
| 18 | This did not prove that you could n't use whatever it was , simply that you were not in the mood to knit successfully ! |
| 19 | ‘ Our problem is that we 're not in the Premier League , but hopefully that will be remedied at the end of this season . ’ |
| 20 | Our problem is that we 're not in the Premier League , but hopefully that will be remedied at the end of this season . ’ |
| 21 | It may be considered to be a vital British interest that we are not on the outside of the single currency in five years ' time . |
| 22 | It does n't mean to say that we are not on the , alert and on the look out and er , I think those opportunities erm , er , will still occur and that er , we will be involved . |
| 23 | The CBI report on manufacturing , even in its narrow understated way , shows that we are not at the bottom . |
| 24 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 25 | Later in the day I learnt from the Canadian that we were not in the main part of the camp at all , but in the cells or ‘ cooler , awaiting interrogation . |
| 26 | There is often a large sag in the line-up of boards , because although the people at either end are confident that they are not over the line , the people in the middle can not judge their approach precisely and tend to hold back in caution . |
| 27 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 28 | They must be made to understand that they are not above the law and that they are answerable to the people who elected them and whom they are supposed to represent . |
| 29 | The incident seems to have been settled , but remains a warning to writers of climbing guides that they are n't above the law of libel . |
| 30 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |