Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not criticising the Taiwanese , because they were better than the British . |
| 2 | The official protested , but Miss Royal said , ‘ I am NOT having the poor old man frightened . |
| 3 | I am not to tell the other Rons . |
| 4 | In using this term I am not making the simplistic assumption that people who hold this position are sick . |
| 5 | I am not making the exorbitant claim that every black youth reaching adolescence in the 1970s and early 1980s underwent such traumas . |
| 6 | By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty . |
| 7 | And if pupils are not taught the basic disciplines of rhythm — then things become impossible . |
| 8 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 9 | The UK , he says , gave full support to the system because it will cut out fraud and allow the EC to get tough with countries who are not operating the common agricultural policy fully or properly . |
| 10 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 11 | While other dictionary publishers are not taking the extreme stance taken by COBUILD , corpora are being recognised as increasingly useful tools for creating up-to-date dictionaries that accurately reflect the language . |
| 12 | We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward . |
| 13 | If you are not using the original version , you should say so ( e.g. by noting " second edition " or " reprinted version " or " facsimile " ) . |
| 14 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 15 | You are not denied the best of foods , chicken breasts , cream , fresh vegetables , asparagus . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ That means opening doors so that people are not denied the best education and the best health care ; it means that we must have equal opportunity , greater fairness . ’ |
| 17 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 18 | It can therefore be argued that not only do social services not pull labour out of the manufacturing sector , but also if they are not expanded the redundant labour from the manufacturing sector simply remains unused and joins the existing long-term reserve army of labour . |
| 19 | ‘ They are not clear on their objectives and are not given the technical tools to use on the field so that they can not play to their potential . |
| 20 | This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus . |
| 21 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 22 | I 'm sure those fucking Officers are not eating the same crap as we are . ’ |
| 23 | As I understand it — of course , I am open to correction — the discount system which Conservative Members have praised to the sky will be entirely financed within the system , so others who are not getting the 25 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ If we are not to waste the two days , we ought to focus on something concrete . |
| 25 | Serious buyers are not seeking the homely smells of baking or the aroma of coffee beans . |
| 26 | ‘ In many of the instances we find that employers are not honouring the basic minimum wage and ignoring overtime rates , ’ she said . |
| 27 | They are not questioning the potential value of , in this context , high-quality environmental information per se . |
| 28 | Police say they are not linking the two incidents . |
| 29 | Those who use the term ‘ paragraph ’ to describe a unit in the structural analysis of written discourse go to some trouble to point out that they are not describing the orthographic paragraph . |
| 30 | If all three aspects are not addressed the 240 additional cannon fodder will not remain in the system either . |