Example sentences of "be not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |
2 | ‘ But I am not looking like Hindu . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
5 | ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | This was definitely the case with me and , even now , I occasionally have one or two lessons to make sure I am not getting into bad habits . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
11 | I am not arguing for shoddy commercials . |
12 | ‘ I am not acquainted with any young lady of that name . ’ |
13 | I am not going through that again ? ’ |
14 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
15 | I am not talking of municipal autonomy — they almost have that — but of self-rule as is written and spelled out in the Camp David accords " . |
16 | I am not talking of secondary schools , although there are some very small secondary schools in Oxfordshire . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Conservative Members would be well advised to heed those words because all the contact that I have had with local government — I am not talking about Labour councillors , but about impartial experts — has shown that those experts believe that the council tax will eventually run into such trouble that it will become unworkable . |
19 | While stocks in the form of raw materials last — I am not talking about nuclear weapons but general armaments — the production will clearly continue . |
20 | I am not persuaded by either of these arguments . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | But sadly the works of art are not destined for any gallery … they remain a very private and personal part of Kylie 's life . |
23 | But should we assume the same training is required by the lion 's share of our undergraduates who are not destined for academic careers ? |
24 | Mark has only some thirty verses which are not repeated in one or both of the other two Gospels . |
25 | 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 ) . |
26 | It does n't make sense , does it ? … this way we are not represented at all . |
27 | If you are an Imperial player and facing a foe that uses such despicable tactics then console yourself with the thought that at least the units firing at the Helblaster are not firing at other targets . |
28 | Unlike a sport like skiing , the considerable risks are not matched with sufficient exhilaration to kindle my interest , although I would n't say no if a boyfriend were to slip naked into one of those clanking climbing harnesses after a hot bath and a glass of wine . |
29 | In Africa , the high overall incidence of STDs , fuelled by lack of effective STD control , means that antenatal interventions are unlikely to be very effective if they are not matched by equivalent or corresponding measures to control STDs in the general population . |
30 | However , the Commissioner will consider each case individually-the merits of one case are not balanced against another . |