Example sentences of "be [pron] not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But am I not right in supposing that Moose Jaw is the mid-west divisional point of the C.P.R. ? ’
2 Am I , am I not right in saying
3 Am I not right in thinking that the batons themselves are fused , therefore they are a safety device , therefore t the fuse in the baton will go if you do exceed the thirteen ?
4 Am I not right , Mr Frere ? ’
5 The ‘ Pied Piper ’ side of Dominic is seen in a verse called Without Finance : As I saunter unabashed , Best foot forward , Hair slicked back , Am I not just the sort of chap That fortune often favours ?
6 should make a nice , am I not very good with it ,
7 ‘ As to trapping you , are you not already trapped by the past ?
8 Are you not well , lovey ?
9 Are you not well ?
10 Thus Anselm of Canterbury , referring to Galatians 7:19 , speaks of St Paul as his ‘ sweet nurse , sweet mother ’ ; and continues , with reference to Luke 13:34 : ‘ And you Jesus , are you not also a mother ?
11 Now how is a pensions regulator going to look at those thirty transactions , therefore are you not effectively saying that the pensions regulator may work in areas where pensions regulation actually works now .
12 also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ?
13 Are you not very well Chris ?
14 Are you not very well ?
15 Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud .
16 Are we not already too many , simply too many , to be able to change the patterns deliberately ?
17 Are we not deliciously innocent ? ’
18 Are we not well enough aware that on the screen , as on the page , good news is no news ?
19 Are we not perhaps condemned to periodical or non-periodical ‘ crises ’ on an inverted basis , on a different correlation between production and consumption ?
20 From a late twentieth-century perspective are we not more likely to disregard than dissect him ?
21 If that seems too simple , then let me put what I believe to be a far more cogent argument , By bringing ‘ God ’ into this , are we not merely shifting something off ourselves ?
22 Are we not sometimes benevolent towards our fellows ?
23 Yet , with all due respect , are there not too many central bankers stalking the globe ?
24 And are there not more general problems with such a ‘ rationalistic ’ theory of racism .
25 Among the exquisitely pungent thoughts of self , of responsibility and tradition , stands the one who was powerfully driven by his sensual nature , by his personal loneliness , by the intense need to be one not only with the One , but also with the many in human completion .
26 Are they not paradoxically reproducing the laws which exclude and oppress them , even as they seem to be escaping and subverting those laws ?
27 So do I are they not very warm ?
28 Are they not there ?
29 ‘ Why were you not here ? ’
30 But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’
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