Example sentences of "he [is] not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for rearing the child in a laboratory , the unit prepared for him is not equipped with bunsen burners and retorts and animal cages . |
| 2 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 3 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 4 | The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) . |
| 5 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 6 | ‘ He is not acting in the best interests of national heritage . |
| 7 | Where the contract is between a businessman and a party who is not a businessman , usually a consumer , it seems from s 1(3) ( a ) that the businessman will incur " business liability " ( and hence is caught by s 2(1) ) , while the other party can not incur " business liability " , since by definition he is not acting in the course of a business , and therefore will not be caught by the section . |
| 8 | Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend . |
| 9 | He is not looking for people who can make decisions for him , but people through whom he can implement his decisions . |
| 10 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 11 | The topic he is speaking on is one which interests him greatly ( much more so than his own lecture topic ) but it is also one on which he is not recognised as an authoritative speaker . |
| 12 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |
| 13 | He is not ranked by the WBA either but that group would recognise him as champion . |
| 14 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 15 | According to decisions of labour courts , no legally enforceable relationship exists between the casual worker and the organization for which he is working in the times when he is not engaged by them . |
| 16 | He is not engaged in some new and unnatural vice . |
| 17 | The Aston Villa manager , whose team can confirm their new favouritism for the crown by building on a two-point lead at the top , insists he is not fooled by Walker 's apparent concession of the title after Norwich 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon on Saturday . |
| 18 | He is not trying to be humble , he is genuinely perplexed by the chemistry that exists between himself and other people . |
| 19 | His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience . |
| 20 | If Grom is slain he may still try to regenerate wounds suffered , and if successful he is not killed after all . |
| 21 | He is not named in the charge but the club are accused of breaking all-ticket rules on match-day morning . |
| 22 | If a lorry driver does not actually drive each day because business is slack , but receives his usual wages , he is not justified in complaining about lack of actual driving work . |
| 23 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 24 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 25 | When he returns , however , and becomes deeply involved in researches and investigation at headquarters , he is not placed on the readiness roster until the immediate demands of that investigation have been met . |
| 26 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 27 | It being of no use for the master to say that the merchandise belongs to the owner of the ship because he can not be believed upon his word ; and he is not believed on his word when he declares that the ship belongs to the bourgeois and that there is no point to the charter party for the above stated reasons . |
| 28 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 29 | He is not disqualified from taking part in refusing a certificate or in granting a certificate for other premises . |
| 30 | However , he is not presumed to be financially accountable for such decisions . |