Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the " 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 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 4 | My business interests are declared , but , contrary to some popular media suppositions , I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation . |
| 5 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 6 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 8 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 9 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 10 | My annoyance at missing the fish turns to relief when I realise I am not snagged in the roots . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not going into the barn ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed there are no really weak moments vocally , although I am not convinced by the style of all the vocal cadenzas . |
| 15 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 16 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 17 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 18 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 19 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 20 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 21 | I am not talking about the phrase , ’ federal vocation ’ . |
| 22 | I am not persuaded by the hon. Gentleman 's arguments that to have proportional representation would necessarily persuade Glaswegians to vote Conservative . |
| 23 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 24 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 25 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 26 | Lord Fraser was pressed by MPs with examples of rises in contributions that people would have to pay towards legal aid and said : ‘ I am not shrinking from the fact that there will be increases in the contribution for some people . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |