Example sentences of "[adv] [be] not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 2 | And you 'll say well there must be a catch in it somewhere they obviously are n't doing it for free . |
| 3 | Many people are not aware of the existence of some of them or of their own eligibility to make a claim , so are not taking them up ; and you may find that you are one of them . |
| 4 | I just was n't expecting it . ’ |
| 5 | I thought she 'd and just was n't telling me but anyway |
| 6 | She was prepared to stand surety for me , but they just was n't having it . |
| 7 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 8 | why the night before , did , was I told oh you 'll need an amplifier and she 's going to bring in one from her home , her own one in tomorrow morning , I thought I did n't spring it in last week , anything and then that day when I discovered it still was n't working I just could n't believe it |
| 9 | In their ambition to produce a cinema version of Granta , the editors have not solved the problem presented by the fact that film-makers who want to write about their films probably are not making them . |
| 10 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 11 | The voice clearly was n't addressing him . |
| 12 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 13 | What galls the most is not having him on the subs bench . |
| 14 | I think I ought to start thinking , well never mind if everywhere else is n't doing it . |
| 15 | They certainly were n't saying it about Lester Piggott on Royal Academy a couple of years back either . |
| 16 | Well , unlike the lady in the Patrick Eggle ad , she certainly is n't playing it . |
| 17 | but , I mean if that actually was n't happening you 'd think he'd' 've come back and said we 've got to get in there now , you know get our , our message across and , and make a revolution movement . |