Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that Scotland has ‘ lost out ’ over the past 13 years from the fact that there was only one fund based in London . |
| 2 | Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting . |
| 3 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 4 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 5 | I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was . |
| 6 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 7 | Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important . |
| 8 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 9 | By emphasizing this convergence I am not saying that culture and identity are unimportant , but challenging the routine reduction of race to them alone which obscures the inherently political character of the term . |
| 10 | I am not saying that disturbances always have a single cause . |
| 11 | I am not saying that women religious have totally solved the problem . |
| 12 | I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt . |
| 13 | I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women . |
| 15 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 16 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 17 | Books of academic religion ( or of any other academic subject ) are not lasting because scholarship in all fields advances . |
| 18 | Guards and TTI are not ignored as flags , ticket nippers and leather bags are all part of the range , John Beesley is always interested to discuss future requirements and possible additions to his range , volunteers or railway companies are advised to get in touch . |
| 19 | And in Naples , 25 per cent of school-age children are not enrolled and truancy rates of the rest are high . |
| 20 | It is important to note , however , that they are not trained as judges ( in marked contrast to most continental jurisdictions which adopt a professional career structure for judges who are recruited immediately on graduating from law school ) . |
| 21 | Teachers are not trained as innovators and much of the content of teacher training colleges ' curricula is not relevant to this approach . |
| 22 | If dare and need are not asserted as realities , then they must be conceived as mere potentialities , and since the infinitive also expresses a non-actual event in these uses , it must also be represented as a potentiality . |
| 23 | The variable costs start from zero , since labour and material are not consumed until production starts , and in the simple model rise linearly with volume . |
| 24 | ( b ) They are not written down in any formal sense in that they are not expressed as Acts of Parliament nor are they established by judicial precedent . |
| 25 | Four problem areas arise with visitors : ( a ) Rights of way Persons who lawfully exercise a private right of way are not treated as visitors and are therefore not covered by the 1957 Act ( Holden v White [ 1982 ] 2 WLR 1030 ) . |
| 26 | Units , in some ways the descendants of the free schools ( Francis 1979 , MacBeath 1977 ) , are not seen as alternatives to schools but as supplementary . |
| 27 | To measure oesophageal body motility , variables measured were : ( 1 ) amplitude of contraction ( mm Hg ) , defined as the difference between the baseline pressure and the maximal pressure during the pressure event ; ( 2 ) duration of contraction ( s ) , defined as the time elapsed between the start and the end of the pressure event ; ( 3 ) area under the pressure curve ( mm Hg×s ) , calculated from the sum of all pressure values between the start and the end of the pressure event , multiplied by the sampling interval ; ( 4 ) propagation velocity ( cm/s ) , defined as the speed of a contraction and calculated from the delay time and the distance between the sensors ; ( 5 ) contractility ( mm Hg/s ) , defined as the maximal increment between consecutive pressure values divided by the sampling interval ; ( 6 ) total contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as pressure curves that are not rejected as artifacts ; ( 7 ) propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contractions that are detected by a proximal pressure transducer and followed by a contraction at the distal sensor . |
| 28 | By all means let us have personal and private views on this or that book , but we are not employed as professionals to impose such views on society , however well meaning we may be . |
| 29 | If we say that dinosaurs grew large because they were in pursuit of the advantage of heat conservation , we are not implying that species engineered their own destiny , with the effect predetermining the cause . |
| 30 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |