Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not speaking altogether correctly . |
| 2 | He 'll tell me if I am not bowling well enough to make the Test side , or if he thinks Phil Tufnell will be best suited if we need only one spinner . |
| 3 | I am not doing so badly at all . ’ |
| 4 | If I am not held up too much , I will gladly give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 5 | As you do n't seem to be responding to telegrams for reasons best known to yourself , I am writing to say that I am not coming home immediately . |
| 6 | They are not building up vertically , they are in a constant ( albeit commonly intermittent ) state of change . |
| 7 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 8 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
| 9 | People often feel a sense of frustration that they are not moving up quickly enough when they join ICI . |
| 10 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 11 | Look for accumulations of dust and cables which are not pushed fully home . |
| 12 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 13 | Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number . |
| 14 | If women are not treated equally either in pay or promotion prospects , it is either because absolute equality has to be refined to incorporate differences in education or productivity , or because the constitution ignores the wish of Japanese women to give priority to their household duties . |
| 15 | However , the decline in resources directed to the public sector and the encouragement of moves towards owner-occupation under the Conservative government have prompted criticism that the three main forms of tenure ( owner-occupation , private-rented and public-rented ) are not treated even handedly . |
| 16 | After the weekend the couple go their separate ways again and are not seen together again until : OCTOBER 14 |
| 17 | Once you have mastered touch legering you will always be grateful you took the time and trouble to learn , for you will meet situations where , because of this experience , you are the only person catching fish on certain days when the fish are not biting boldly enough to give a good visual indication . |
| 18 | There is understandable disillusionment with ludicrous transfer fees and exorbitant wages , and a feeling that some players are not trying hard enough . |
| 19 | For the main part , however , basic techniques are not employed correctly yet within the framework of a method the standard achieved is dependent on technique . |
| 20 | It 's because we are not flying in just one direction . |
| 21 | Dominant social elites are not made up simply of capitalists , but also include managers and professionals , whose power rests upon their capacity to exclude others from their property , whether material or intellectual . |
| 22 | Searches are not made as frequently as staff would like , because they say , shortages mean there simply are n't enough officers to do it . |
| 23 | We are not looking any further yet . ’ |
| 24 | We are not speaking here so much of the kettledrums , which are on a higher artistic plane than the rest of the ‘ kitchen ’ , but with regard to the percussion instruments of indefinite pitch , one should be extremely sparing in their use . |
| 25 | The French , Italian and Austrian Alps have their spectacles , but they are not presented so conveniently for the the idle downhill skier ( or even non-skier ) as the great set-pieces of the Swiss . |
| 26 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 27 | It 's like anything else in law if procedures are not carried out properly . |
| 28 | you did , you 're the cleverest girl in the world are n't you ? there 's your space suit where are you ? , come here while I pull your pants up , pants up first , pants up first lets run some water wait a minute your trousers are not pulled up right both hands in a little bit of soap on , now rub them together good rinse , get all the soap off , right shake , rattle and roll , hands washed , I mean dried sorry |
| 29 | The journalistic and political inference was that children in primary classrooms are not working nearly hard enough ; generally this was based on an aggregation of the percentages for ‘ routine ’ , ‘ awaiting attention ’ and ‘ distracted ’ to produce the claim that 40 per cent of time was ‘ wasted ’ . |
| 30 | Neo-classical models of the labour market contend that equilibriating mechanisms such as migration should work to eradicate spatial variations in unemployment ( Gleave and Palmer , 1980 ) , but the continuation of wide regional variations in rates of joblessness through the 1980s suggests that these mechanisms are not working very efficiently ( Gleave and Sellens , 1984 ; Green et al. , 1986 ) . |