Example sentences of "be not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not buying any more pencil cases . |
| 2 | I am not buying any more pencil cases . |
| 3 | He looked slightly amused as he said : ‘ I am not owed any explanations , this is your house . ’ |
| 4 | If you really can not talk then you can write your replies , but I am not leaving this room until I have them . |
| 5 | I am not writing this as a need for revenge . |
| 6 | Please , do n't get me wrong , I am not condoning Welsh ( or any other team 's ) dirty play , nor am I saying that England are notoriously bad for it . |
| 7 | I am not enjoying this . |
| 8 | I can recall on occasion thinking ‘ I am not enjoying this . ’ |
| 9 | I am not advocating such a theory of parsing English into formal representations — I happen not to believe strongly in such ‘ top — down ’ theories , though there are several relatively successful ones in the literature . |
| 10 | And I am not suggesting that learning to relax will change a single external circumstance ; what it will change is the effect those external circumstances have on your mind and body . |
| 11 | I am not suggesting that . |
| 12 | While I am not denigrating individual interpreters working for the immigration service or the Home Office , many of whom work extremely hard and do a very good job , it is essential that those seeking political asylum have an absolute guarantee that the person doing the translating is independent , is fully aware of the importance of an asylum application , is fully familiar with the cases and is somebody whose background has been inquired into to make sure that he or she is not in a position to infiltrate the immigration service and pass information back to the regime from which the individual may be fleeing , thus putting their family at risk . |
| 13 | In suggesting that philosophical and sociological perspectives be added to the curriculum , I am not proposing that discrete packages of philosophy or sociology be introduced . |
| 14 | I am not anticipating that anybody in this room will do it the way I say I do it . |
| 15 | Thus I am not disputing this vital fact which classical economists have ( rightly ) asserted as indefeasible . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not doing this to provoke . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not having this , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I am not making pedantic points when I refer to all those complexities and difficulties which are now beginning to bite in a way that I find worrying . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not making this sacrifice for nothing . ’ |
| 20 | Let me quote again from the report so that people realise that I am not making this up . |
| 21 | I am not saying this is universal , of course , but I think the pressure from the City on industry to maximise profits tends to make them take short cuts . |
| 22 | I am not saying this to make your head swell . |
| 23 | In small specimens of disk diameter less than 20 mm the spinelets are not sell developed and resemble low hemispherical granules . |
| 24 | We are not suggesting that to adopt all the practices evident among Bangladeshis in Cardiff , or Hong Kong residents , will prevent sudden infant deaths . |
| 25 | ‘ Surely you are not suggesting that my daughter — ? |
| 26 | Note : We are not suggesting common size statements are the only or best way to do the analysis ; they are used here to illustrate the issue . |
| 27 | We are not suggesting any solutions , we want information with that information then er , a judgement can then be made by this Committee and something can be done to accept those jobs and to create employment for an unemployment . |
| 28 | Boys do not have the same pressures as we do , they are not taught that image is so important ; the media , society , and especially parents give them this impression . |
| 29 | Unfortunately we are not taught these things at school , and there are very few organisations offering practical , effective methods that really work . |
| 30 | Seventy-seven per cent think the youth of today are not taught proper standards of behaviour and 76 per cent thought parents allow their children too much freedom . |