Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Third , I am not marrying Nicola Schreider — she 's engaged to someone else .
2 These are not shrieking cornflower hues , but smoky , inky or even blackish blues ( Lauder 's Dress Blue/Blue Mist duo , Lancôme 's Illusion Bleutée , Chanel 's Paradis ( Enfer ) .
3 Unlike the construction of age equivalents , in the generation of standard scores it may help to include children with linguistic difficulties in the standardisation sample , since the test 's items will be designed to discriminate these children from children who are not experiencing language difficulties .
4 If you need to send the remedy through the post and are not using dropper type stock bottles I have personally found it safest to add the granule to 10mls of alcohol in say a 10ml screw cap vial .
5 But Farthingdales are not buying Sarah Chester Fabrics .
6 ‘ It is not true to say that because we are not meeting EC directives absolutely that the water is poisoned , ’ said Mr Byatt .
7 ESTATE agents are not noted art lovers , but they love houses that appear in famous paintings .
8 Along with other Scottish Local Authorities , we are not implementing care management in full in April 1993 .
9 Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose .
10 When they are not speaking London English , they may choose to " talk black " or " chat Patois " : but this " black " variety , as I shall show below , is focused on Jamaican Creole in particular .
11 If you are not receiving Housing Benefit at the moment , but because you are on a low income you feel that you may qualify for help , please apply to the Council now .
12 New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour .
13 consumers are not getting specialist services
14 Children are either capable of speaking or not ; those who are not use sign language because of their failure to speak .
15 He added : ‘ We have not played well enough either here or in India , and players are not guaranteed England places .
16 The Official Unionists , who are not contesting North Down , have thrown their support behind Mr Kilfedder .
17 Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) .
18 ‘ We are not talking Cardiff Arms Park . ’
19 Sometimes students get anxious about this , and believe they are not making audience contact early enough ; but if you think about it , the reasoning is clear .
20 The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point .
21 However , the exemption might not apply , for example , if an offer is modified so that overseas shareholders in the target are not offered consideration securities because of overseas securities laws which prohibit the offer document being posted to them ( or permit the offer to be made but subject to onerous filing requirements ) .
22 You 're not to mention car boot sales !
23 Erm , if we 're not allowing nerve tissue to be used in the feedstuffs of cattle , because we suspect that it might be carried in that , and therefore being transmitted to live , er , one species to another , how is it now we can buy chops with nerve ti tissue in it ?
24 if he 's setting it up if they 're not bringing while Friday and they set it up give you time to set it up
25 it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ?
26 There 's something about , I do n't know whether you 've heard about it , about this education and training for twenty first century , and something about they 're not funding leisure classes the government or something .
27 Pity you 're not called Simon Thospson , though , 'coz then you could make the anagram ‘ Hot on Simpsons ’ out of your name !
28 They 're not getting I T A flights , they 're getting for full fare , are n't they ?
29 ‘ You 're not suggesting Frank Griffith kidnapped Sam ? ’
30 We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all .
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