Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 2 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 3 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 4 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 5 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 6 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not going into the barn ! ’ |
| 8 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 9 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 10 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 11 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 12 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 13 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 14 | I am not talking about the phrase , ’ federal vocation ’ . |
| 15 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 16 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 17 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 18 | Lord Fraser was pressed by MPs with examples of rises in contributions that people would have to pay towards legal aid and said : ‘ I am not shrinking from the fact that there will be increases in the contribution for some people . ’ |
| 19 | I fully support it , and I believe it is an option for those schools who have Local Education Authorities that are not progressing in the way in which the parents think they should . |
| 20 | We are not dealing with the Christ or Christos of theology , the figure who enjoys a very real and very puissant existence in the psyches and consciences of the faithful . |
| 21 | It should be noted that in this offence we are not dealing with the hypothetical by-stander . |
| 22 | Because of their different activity time clock , the owls are not competing with the hawks for the same food animals at the same time and can therefore co-exist . |
| 23 | Automatic systems usually have an in-feed/out-feed conveyor and sufficient forklift trucks to feed the system — again in each case they are not operating within the crane and storage area . |
| 24 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 25 | Silver Reed tell me the double knit ribber does have a yarn holder and this holds the yarns you are not using at the end of the needle bed , making changing by hand easier . |
| 26 | ‘ You are not passing through the village , ’ Benjamin continued . |
| 27 | The familial links are not wanting in the poetry either . |
| 28 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 29 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 30 | If you are not living in the property ( or a part of it which you have let out for rent ) , then the house — or that section of it — is no longer considered to be your main home . |