Example sentences of "be not [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
2 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
3 | My business interests are declared , but , contrary to some popular media suppositions , I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation . |
4 | My annoyance at missing the fish turns to relief when I realise I am not snagged in the roots . |
5 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
6 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
7 | Indeed there are no really weak moments vocally , although I am not convinced by the style of all the vocal cadenzas . |
8 | I am not persuaded by the hon. Gentleman 's arguments that to have proportional representation would necessarily persuade Glaswegians to vote Conservative . |
9 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
10 | Tennant and his girlfriend , Mandy Simpson , 21 , are not headed for the discos but to top up their tans at the Electric Beach instant tan centre . |
11 | With me the choirs never use music , which has the double effect : their eyes are not fixed on the page in front of them and they can communicate directly with me . |
12 | Because the Delta design incorporates leading edge spars which are not fixed to the spine , and can therefore flex , they are self-adjusting for a broad variance in wind speeds . |
13 | Fences are not rushed in the stormy outbursts of No. 2 — though I still think he hurries Chopin 's dramatic interruption ( that fortissimo discord and pause ) in the last few bars . |
14 | The front arches are not repeated on the back because a credence table is a side table and will always be against a wall . |
15 | Smith suggests that ‘ the concept of policy denotes … deliberate choice of action or inaction , rather than the effects of interrelating forces ’ : he emphasizes ‘ inaction ’ and reminds us that ‘ attention should not focus exclusively on decisions which produce change , but must also be sensitive to those which resist change and are difficult to observe because they are not represented in the policy-making process by legislative enactment ’ . |
16 | It will be essential to drill shallow boreholes between the exploratory wells to ensure that any steeply dipping fractures are not missed by the tomographic software . |
17 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |
18 | Honesty exists when a document is enforceable on the basis of its ostensible ( as opposed to ‘ small print ’ ) terms , or when express warranties are not disclaimed in the small print . |
19 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
20 | Moreover , in these models , if the firms have different and non-constant marginal costs , a further source of inefficiency is that total market output will be produced at more than minimum total cost — the marginal costs of firms are not equalized at the equilibrium . |
21 | In Section 7–2 we start with distortions in the factor market , where returns are not equalized in the two sectors of the economy ( for example , because of a union ‘ premium ’ in the corporate sector ) and then go on to a monopoly mark-up pricing policy . |
22 | The first situation considered is that where there are distortions in the factor market , so that the returns are not equalized in the two sectors . |
23 | It is particularly important to check that findings are not generalized beyond the group studied . |
24 | Yet this still means that over a thousand African languages are not heard on the radio . |
25 | The actual women themselves — or rather girls , for they seem mainly to have been under 18-who worked in these experimental offices , are not heard in the debate , silenced not so much by their sex perhaps , as by their mostly humble circumstances and extreme youth and inexperience . |
26 | Although Catholics are not cited in the Smolensk Archive with reference to the taking of church valuables , their activity can be traced from other sources . |
27 | Yet in spite of this physical transformation , the statistics of unemployment and homelessness , which of course are not cited by the LDDC , show that LDDC-led ‘ regeneration ’ has not trickled down very far into the working class communities of East London . |
28 | If Tories are not flung to the lions in Blaenau , it can only be because lions are rare in the one-time mining valleys of South Wales . |
29 | Galileo was less successful in explaining why loose objects are not flung from the surface of a spinning earth . |
30 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |