Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , I am not just talking about romantic attachments , but also about simple friendships . |
| 2 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 3 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 4 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 5 | When we talk of an increase in bank lending leading to monetary expansion , however , we are not normally talking about the behaviour of an individual bank but about banks as a whole . |
| 6 | ‘ We are not exactly dealing in bodies , ’ said Owen . |
| 7 | U2 and close spirits are not simply fighting against lack of rock groups , or regressive traditional rock activity , but against the stiff tradition of Irish showbands , the giddy lack of pop choice or opportunity . |
| 8 | However we are not simply waiting for an upturn in the world economy . |
| 9 | ‘ British Gas will ensure as far as reasonably practicable that the goods and services which it procures are not inherently damaging to the environment during their use or disposal . |
| 10 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 11 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 12 | So far as Mr. Beazley 's other points are concerned : ( a ) I do not accept that the English choice of law rule is relevant , since we are not here dealing with a choice of law problem . |
| 13 | We are not just watching from the sidelines , but rather are rolling our sleeves up and getting involved not just in getting local people back into work , but in keeping them there . |
| 14 | We are not just looking for tax disc dodgers , we are looking for insurance offences , or MOT offences and the condition of vehicles . ’ |
| 15 | Leading the commission group , Patricia Hewitt , a former aide to Neil Kinnock , explains they are not just looking at social security , but at barriers to economic opportunity and how to help local people and local groups to overcome those barriers . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own . |
| 17 | We are not just talking about an environmental nuisance here — we 're talking about a real threat to life . |
| 18 | We are not just talking about information ; we are talking about the ability to respond to the living language . |
| 19 | Managing Director of Rockcliffe , Graham Campbell said , ’ We are not just going with the trend , we are about to overtake it . ’ |
| 20 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
| 21 | However , an increase in the real wage is also likely to induce people who are not initially participating in the labour market to enter the market and seek jobs . |
| 22 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is pressing the Bank of England to examine allegations that the big lenders are not fully passing on the cheaper rates . |
| 23 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 24 | Not to do so means that they are not truly working in the best interests of the children . |
| 25 | These are not merely reading for children but they form part of a shared British culture . |
| 26 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 27 | We are not now talking of £2 million or £5 million . |
| 28 | Also audiences clearly find in opera a spiritual intensity and cathartic richness they are not always getting from the straight theatre . |
| 29 | People are not always working in the jobs for which they were trained . |
| 30 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |