Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 . |
| 2 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 3 | I am not criticising the TEC : it does not have the resources . |
| 4 | I am not criticising the Taiwanese , because they were better than the British . |
| 5 | Gatt simply replies : ‘ Just get on with it , I am not setting a field for bad balls . ’ |
| 6 | I am not taking an easy road and that I risk not being understood by many fellow countrymen , " he wrote , " but this is the only road I can follow in conscience . |
| 7 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 8 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 9 | I am not advocating no guidance though , since a teacher 's role in this respect is a vital one , but it can easily be overdone and destroy a sense of personal achievement . |
| 10 | I am not advocating the bargaining procedure described above . |
| 11 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 12 | I am not suggesting an industry policy but a more active policy for manufacturing industry . |
| 13 | By conviction I am not suggesting the idea of ‘ conviction of sin ’ but of ‘ the courage of one 's convictions ’ . |
| 14 | I am not disclosing the page number . |
| 15 | And I am not overlooking the fact that the Provincials are more than well represented with Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure of Portrush , who meet Edwin Downey and Gary Rutledge of St Brendan 's . |
| 16 | I am not condemning the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service or the people who work in it . |
| 17 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 18 | And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands . |
| 19 | I am not attacking the intellectual and musical meritocracy of Oxford and Cambridge for I do not wish to become embroiled in a political argument . |
| 20 | I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 21 | I am not proposing a free-for-all , but the admission of children to certain pubs on the application of the licensee and the approval of the local licensing bench . |
| 22 | I am not touting the club around . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not anticipating a January reshuffle , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not having a tantrum ! ’ |
| 25 | I tell him I am not having an affair but he hardly listens . |
| 26 | The official protested , but Miss Royal said , ‘ I am NOT having the poor old man frightened . |
| 27 | I am not denying the truth of this feeling : to feel cold is to feel unprotected and each is a metaphor for the other state . |
| 28 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 29 | I am not to tell the other Rons . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |