Example sentences of "be not [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 2 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not looking for commitment ! ’ |
| 4 | I am not made of fan material , and find it hard to understand . |
| 5 | One night when I am not covered in jam and poster-paint ? ’ she pleads . |
| 6 | And she said : ‘ When I am not training for hockey I play football . |
| 7 | I am not ashamed to admit that I am not overwhelmed with sympathy for muggers and molesters . |
| 8 | I said I do n't mind this doing statement , I said , but I am not going to court ! |
| 9 | But I am not talking of architecture . ’ |
| 10 | I am not talking about hunting being given the name of culling , I am talking about situations where culling does really look to be the only way to save the vegetation . |
| 11 | But in the kind of conversation recorded here , I am not talking about overuse . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not playing at make-believe . |
| 13 | I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders , just their cobwebs . |
| 14 | After their racing days the horses are not destined for breeding ; they often live as the mounts of amateur riders in local races or retire to become family friends . |
| 15 | This flexibility is particularly valuable when so many of the subjects within the Faculty are not taught at school and the first year university course will be the first opportunity to sample them . |
| 16 | Many of the subjects available for study are not taught in school , and consequently may be unfamiliar . |
| 17 | Statuses which are not fixed by inheritance , biological characteristics , or other factors over which the individual has no control , are known as ‘ achieved ’ statuses . |
| 18 | Important consequences attend the fact that the composition , powers and procedures of the Cabinet are not fixed by law . |
| 19 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 20 | That 's in the open ocean in enclosed basins , for example the Black Sea , many fjords and sea lochs , the deep waters are not renewed by water masses moving in from other areas in the way that they are in the open ocean and there anoxia can occur in the deep waters , that is the oxygen can be completely removed by biological activity particularly in degradation processes of organic matter , bacterial respiration so anoxic conditions can occur in isolated deep basins but low oxygen concentrations are actually very rare in the open ocean . |
| 21 | There is still a sense in which the relation between words and object can be called ‘ arbitrary ’ , since we are not dealing with onomatopeia , but it is quite unproblematical . |
| 22 | I know that many killings are done for next to nothing but we are not dealing with street muggers or footloose louts , we are dealing with the middle-aged and the middle-class-people who know which side their bread is buttered and value their reputations almost more than their deeds and their share certificates . |
| 23 | We note that the most striking finding reported in their paper — the 5 cm difference in average height between men with microalbuminuria in both samples and those with no microalbuminuria in both samples — is based on a small number of men with microalbuminuria , and the means are not standardised for age . |
| 24 | While recent developments in Zambia must be welcomed as the first occasion on which an African Commonwealth head of state has left office because of the ballot box , are there not all too many countries in Africa which are not moving towards democracy ? |
| 25 | This suggests that , instead of a once-and-for-all decision at the end of the analysis , there may be a process of evaluation that develops with the project , and that decisions and analyses are not undertaken without consideration of prior experience . |
| 26 | In general , silvicultural techniques include the regulation of regeneration , species composition and growth and may be designed to enhance aspects of forestry , such as improvement of habitats for wildlife , that are not related to timber production . |
| 27 | It is therefore possible that the changes found in the study of Beardshall et al are not related to suppression of H pylori although this remains the most likely explanation . |
| 28 | Entailment can occur between sentences differing only in respect of the lexical fillers of a particular syntactic slot even when the lexical items in question are not related by hyponymy . |
| 29 | If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will . |
| 30 | But National Savings accounts are not taxed at source , and you are allowed £70 a year tax-free interest . |