Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 . |
| 2 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 3 | I am not criticising the TEC : it does not have the resources . |
| 4 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 5 | I am not advocating the bargaining procedure described above . |
| 6 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 7 | By conviction I am not suggesting the idea of ‘ conviction of sin ’ but of ‘ the courage of one 's convictions ’ . |
| 8 | I am not disclosing the page number . |
| 9 | And I am not overlooking the fact that the Provincials are more than well represented with Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure of Portrush , who meet Edwin Downey and Gary Rutledge of St Brendan 's . |
| 10 | I am not condemning the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service or the people who work in it . |
| 11 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 12 | And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands . |
| 13 | I am not attacking the intellectual and musical meritocracy of Oxford and Cambridge for I do not wish to become embroiled in a political argument . |
| 14 | I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 15 | I am not touting the club around . |
| 16 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 17 | I am not denying the truth of this feeling : to feel cold is to feel unprotected and each is a metaphor for the other state . |
| 18 | The chairman of the Northern Development Company — Sir Ron Dearing — said in The Northern Echo on 17 September : ’ I am not saying the recession has n't hurt . |
| 19 | I am not saying the road is not ancient , it is older than the age of the Pilgrims and could even go back to Neolithic times . |
| 20 | I am not ignoring the interpreter 's translation |
| 21 | ‘ I am not protecting the Communists or the party , ’ he said , ‘ I am trying to , and I will , protect my sense of myself . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I am not representing CND , I am not representing the Vatican , I am representing Tottenham and I think many other people as well . ’ |
| 23 | With Hitchock in this mood it already looks a good signing and Porterfield said : ‘ We are not bringing the Russian to take Kevin 's place . |
| 24 | You are not helping the players , because if you try to do that they will come to rely on you in the actual performance . |
| 25 | All of these methods are extremely costly and frankly are not helping the initial cause of the problem . |
| 26 | Believers are not to love the world , and one day it will pass away ( 1 John 2:15 , 17 ) . |
| 27 | He said that if evidence and submissions are not present the procedure " can not " be an arbitration . |
| 28 | If any of these features are not present the cost objective for the project is unlikely to be met . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that they are not organising the elections — this is being done by South Africa 's AG but only monitoring them , South Africa and their supporters started their campaign months ago . |
| 30 | Does the Prime Minister agree with his right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield ( Sir N. Fowler ) , who said on Friday ’ We are not accepting the principle of a single currency ’ — yes or no , please ? |