Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be not [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 | In print she boasts that she is not in the least attracted by drugs , even scared to touch ‘ ordinary cheerful liquor ’ . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | This did not prove that you could n't use whatever it was , simply that you were not in the mood to knit successfully ! |
11 | ‘ Our problem is that we 're not in the Premier League , but hopefully that will be remedied at the end of this season . ’ |
12 | Our problem is that we 're not in the Premier League , but hopefully that will be remedied at the end of this season . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The CBI report on manufacturing , even in its narrow understated way , shows that we are not at the bottom . |
16 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
23 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
24 | Now one of the features of Microsoft Word is that a only lets you work with text which is what is called selected and if you actually move the cursor down a bit so that it 's not at the beginning of a document and then we 'll follow our way through these various selecting text keys which are outlined in that paragraph , section three six one . |
25 | Thin foil wrappers , for example , contain so little material that it 's not worth the cost of recycling . |
26 | While we are on the subject , may I also point out that it is not on the FRCC guides that have printed so many incorrect ‘ historical facts ’ . |
27 | It is clear that the Soviet economy is at an impasse , but we have tried to suggest that it is not at the abyss . |
28 | Even with the property market at its height — I do not need to remind the House that it is not at the height at the moment — British Rail would not be able to cover the £1.4 billion capital cost out of its profit from property development or out of revenue from running the trains . |
29 | In particular , he could say that it is not for the Conservative Party or anybody else to determine the budget options of Parliament . |
30 | Beyond that there is the deep-felt conviction that it is not within the rights of any person to use the machinery of state in order to force his conception of the good life on other adult persons . |