Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having sung the praises of swimfeeders I must point out that I do not think they are the be-all and end-all of barbel fishing , specially for the very big ones . |
| 2 | Mr. Browne did not think it was the job of councils to provide housing , but Mr. Barron was quick to counter that point . |
| 3 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 4 | But as the London Food Commission points out : ‘ The problem for consumers at the moment is that they do not know which are the PVC clingfilms . |
| 5 | There were two bridges over the R. Dovey ; I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure . |
| 6 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 7 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 8 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 9 | Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but … |
| 10 | He added : ‘ I believe Manchester is an injured party — I do not believe it is the fault of the city . |
| 11 | Police do not believe it was the work of Colombian drug lords Photograph ( omitted ) : |
| 12 | Although the breathlessness was noticeable , I could not understand what was the matter with her . |
| 13 | It 's not paying it 's the hold up is n't it ? |
| 14 | Fleury uttered a curse and started to examine it , for the life of him he could not see what was the matter . |
| 15 | Pierre Leveque had arranged for me to join a small party attending the season-opening hockey match that evening at the Molson Stadium , with the local Montreal Canadiens playing the New York Rangers , but I did not realize it was the mayoral party until we arrived . |
| 16 | Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one . |
| 17 | The catty among her sisters ( and the hatreds that rive the small band of women MPs have to be experienced to be believed ) called her Angela Brazil , but that did not stop her being the most popular girl in the school . |
| 18 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 19 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 20 | I think network marketing I think it I think that turns out to be jolly hard work because if you 're not recruiting it 's the recruitment part of it . |
| 21 | I am not saying which is the salt and which is the sugar — it just is absolutely designed not to produce an intelligent reaction in the spectator . |
| 22 | I 'm not saying we were the first , bloody hell , it sounded dated when we did it . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying it 's the same s |
| 24 | No , we 're not saying it 's the leeway might be important , cos as I said , these choices , and Sandra will agree , there 's only two columns , that is n't gon na increase ! |
| 25 | This is just one that 's come to mind , I 'm not saying it 's the correct one at this stage because as I have said I would like to go away an work on these plans |
| 26 | It is not known who was the mother of Osred , Aldfrith 's son and successor , nor when Aldfrith 's queen , Cuthburh , parted from him to found a nunnery at Wimborne ( ASC A , s.a. 718 ) . |
| 27 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 28 | ‘ They 'd need one nostril up the fox 's arse today , ’ Nora heard a farmer say to the whipper-in , not knowing she was the other side of the hedge . |
| 29 | What these empirical data can not tell us is the quality of the interaction which has taken place . |
| 30 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |