Example sentences of "[am/are] not [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa . |
| 2 | ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again . |
| 3 | In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past . |
| 4 | But , for all the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with whose speech I entirely agree , I am not placed in that invidious situation . |
| 5 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not acquainted with any young lady of that name . ’ |
| 8 | I am not going through that again ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 10 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 11 | I am not persuaded by either of these arguments . ’ |
| 12 | Fortunately I am not driven to this expedient that often , because I have many other stratagems that I have devised for attaining the same object . |
| 13 | But sadly the works of art are not destined for any gallery … they remain a very private and personal part of Kylie 's life . |
| 14 | Overall , fourteen high intensity blockage sites ( mole fraction greater than 0.025 ) were identified in the regions probed from the UV5 and N25 promoters and twelve of these are summarised in Fig. 5 in the form of a bidirectional transcription footprint ( note that sites at 106 and 110 from the UV5 promoter are not represented on this summation since they are outside of the region probed by the N25 promoter ) . |
| 15 | It does n't make sense , does it ? … this way we are not represented at all . |
| 16 | However , the Commissioner will consider each case individually-the merits of one case are not balanced against another . |
| 17 | It has been found , however , that the corrosive effects of digestion on bones and teeth in the predator 's stomach are not duplicated by any other alteration process and so may be used to identify bone assemblages derived from predators . |
| 18 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If we are going to get reliable evidence from children and make our own evaluation of what they are saying then it is absolutely essential the stories are not contaminated by those who are being accused with the responsibility for harm or neglect . ’ |
| 20 | However , although epileptiform tracings can support a diagnosis , they are not detected in all epileptic patients . |
| 21 | It is also easy to see the patches of dark nebulosity which are not illuminated by any convenient stars , and make their presence known by blotting out the light of objects beyond . |
| 22 | And they are très nécessaire , if we women are not to die like this . ’ |
| 23 | Stretchy long tube skirts are an alternative , but they too are impractical : if you sit for most of the day you will undoubtedly get knee-bagging , and they are not flattering to most posteriors . |
| 24 | Stretchy long tube skirts are an alternative , but they too are impractical : if you sit for most of the day you will undoubtedly get knee-bagging , and they are not flattering to most posteriors . |
| 25 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 26 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 27 | Supervision is vital in maintaining the highest standards : every Rentokil branch has dedicated supervisors as well as drawing on field biologists and quality assurance inspectors whose salaries are not related to any trading performance incentive . |
| 28 | On the other hand , feelings of attachment to a person named as very close are not related to either . |
| 29 | ( Many different early blueprints may play into this and compound the fear of the opposite sex , but we are not elaborating on this , as homosexuality is not the subject of this book . ) |
| 30 | A combination of factors — including cost and disruption to office life , together with the recession and an inability to provide the right balance of work experience — means that either smaller firms are not training at all or they are opting to train certified accountants and accounting technicians . |