Example sentences of "[am/are] not [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She insisted : ‘ I wish to God it was true , but I am not even worth £1 million . |
| 2 | But I am not here to bandy words with you , ’ Guy continued , ruthlessly forestalling another angry retort . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not here for Matilda . |
| 4 | and he replies : ( " Lady , I am not here by a trick ! |
| 5 | ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’ |
| 6 | I am not yet without my wits . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am not yet in the ESP business , sir . |
| 8 | Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not yet in that happy position , ’ she answered . |
| 10 | — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . " |
| 11 | ‘ I am not always at the village , ’ said Allen , ‘ sometimes I go east to Lincoln , or south to Peterborough , I have been as far as Lynn . |
| 12 | I am not always against high-risk investments : I am against this one . ’ |
| 13 | I am not really on it . |
| 14 | I am not really in a position to write this column . |
| 15 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 16 | but he sort of pooh-poohed it and sort of said well you know , we 're getting a bit to old for all this modern sophistication of computers and so on , well I said well quite frankly I am not totally in agreement with you , because as you probably know Clyde was looking into a program which will could alleviate a lot |
| 17 | Victoria thinks that I am not sufficiently in love with her to want children . |
| 18 | Right hon. and hon. Members are failing to remember in how many criminal trials it happens , often necessarily , that allegations are made by the prosecution or defence which are damaging to persons who are not immediately before the court . |
| 19 | The fact we are not ahead of the pack at the moment is a help because everyone is not talking about us winning it . ’ |
| 20 | We are not normally like this . |
| 21 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 22 | The explanations are not flatly in conflict but neither are they compatible — a nuanced matter which suggests that facts and interpretations can not be kept apart . |
| 23 | The fact remains , however , that the poor are not simply at the bottom of the stratification hierarchy , but are almost , in a sense , outside the margins of that hierarchy . |
| 24 | The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs . |
| 25 | Truly integrated arts are not simply about providing suitable facilities , but about involving Disabled people as equals at all levels of decision-making and practice , and recognising the experience of Disability throughout the arts structure . |
| 26 | An innovative approach and intelligence risk taking are not simply about managing complex business arrangements , or making strategically sound acquisitions , important though these are . |
| 27 | These are not simply between ‘ black ’ and ‘ white ’ , but between white and black men ( West wood , 1990 ) , white men and black women , and so on . |
| 28 | According to this thinking , cruise missiles are not primarily for killing people . |
| 29 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |
| 30 | The attractions of Ullapool are not altogether in its intrinsic interests . |