Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am not here to lose , ’ he said , never far from the negative response . |
| 5 | And I am not here to lose you readers . ’ |
| 6 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
| 7 | I am not here to discuss that now , but I mean it 's just to make sure that you know that things are n't planned for five years or ten years , but possibly for a lot longer than that . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not here to make myself known to the police . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not here to become involved in a controversy , ’ he said . |
| 10 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 11 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 12 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a great public demand for information on food and nutrition — and we are not here to sell a particular line , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Congress , I know I 'm speaking to the team , but it 's up to us and the activists who are not here to motivate our members and get this campaign off the ground and by supporting this motion , we will be putting the first foot on the ladder to defeating the government 's pay policy . |
| 15 | ‘ We are not here to sort out the world 's problems ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Surely , Sir John , we are not here to discuss the mysterious death of a piglet ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No , we are not here to discuss the death of a pig but the murder of a priest , Richard Waldegrave ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Dr. Briant , let me tell you here and now that we are not here to make judgments . |
| 19 | You are not here to verify , |
| 20 | Chairman of the bench Lawrie Wild told vociferous protesters : ‘ We are not here to hear your objections , we are here to look at the site . ’ |
| 21 | We are not here to have a good time . ’ |
| 22 | So she said well you know , at least I buy Aramis for Johnny and for you so the two purchases are not just to get the watch . |
| 23 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 25 | Moreover , we showed that indomethacin inhibited chemiluminescence elicited by stimulation of a suspension of neutrophils by FMLP , a system in which oxygen free radicals are not though to derive from the cyclo-oxygenase reaction . |
| 26 | Or are they people that are in work but even their salaries are not enough to cope ? |
| 27 | Retirement benefits are not enough to live on , so nearly 2 million pensioners have to claim income support . |
| 28 | The myths are not all equally available to the novel , and they are not enough to explain it . |
| 29 | Formal links between sentences , then , are not enough to account for our feeling that a stretch of language is discourse . |
| 30 | Most carers have attachment and affection to sustain them ; recognising that the deepest levels of such feelings are not enough to see the process through , involves some grief . |