Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 By examining social processes , I am not throwing out the baby with the bath water : I do concede that inherited properties play a part .
2 I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education .
3 Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll .
4 I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe .
5 Perhaps you 're not picking up the tone .
6 Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ?
7 As long as you 're not going up the village
8 You 're na you 're not going down the pit ?
9 I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit .
10 ’ We 're not turning over the phetam to the FedPol , ’ I told her .
11 You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame
12 I 'm glad I , I 'm not going up the chimney !
13 ‘ How quick and how right you are ; we could deal very well together — you 'll find I am a generous lover , as long as you understand I 'm not walking up the aisle with you , or any other woman . ’
14 But I 'm not giving up the day job — yet .
15 ‘ Because we are n't going down the ladder .
16 Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’
17 A written request for a brief photocall from the media , who were not allowed up the 100-yard driveway to the hotel , was conveyed by a garda to Mr Keenan .
18 Northamptonshire police this afternoon said they were not following up the incident .
19 And er you see you were n't allowed down the pit till you were fourteen .
20 The UK , which already allows freedom to provide services into its territory , is not taking up the option to require authorisation .
21 The main thing is not to point out the ‘ factual error ’ because for the person talking it is n't a mistake .
22 The trick is not to turn up the sound .
23 Then the punishing firm ‘ s best response to this is not to carry out the punishment but to produce its corresponding profit maximizing output .
24 If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections .
25 Whatever the role of teachers , it is not to push back the frontiers of knowledge , nor to determine a new direction in which a discipline can move .
26 This is not to rule out the possibility of language convergence in terms of grammar , lexis and phonology , which has been reported in a number of cases .
27 The European Environment Commissioner is not singling out the British , even though the Minister and other senior Ministers seek to attack this honourable Commissioner .
28 But Mr Rafsanjani is exposed to accusations that he is departing from the policies set out by the leader of Iran 's Islamic revolution , the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and may have seized on the Mujahideen attacks to demonstrate that he is not selling out the imam 's legacy .
29 This is not to bring in the doctrine of informed consent which is not the law of this country .
30 He 's not picking up the , the light .
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