Example sentences of "be not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
| 2 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 3 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 4 | I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD to tomorrow . |
| 5 | I am not looking forward to tomorrow . |
| 6 | I may be an exception but , two years later and pregnant again , I am not looking forward to another birth . |
| 7 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not staying here , ’ I said . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not speaking altogether correctly . |
| 10 | I want you to note that I am not singing just ‘ Take my back , because it is my best feature ’ ( in the mirror we could see her beautiful strong back in the low cut of the dress , and of course we could see ourselves too ) . |
| 11 | He 'll tell me if I am not bowling well enough to make the Test side , or if he thinks Phil Tufnell will be best suited if we need only one spinner . |
| 12 | ‘ I can get work anywhere and am not tied here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am not getting bloody childish ! ’ |
| 14 | I am not drunk so much as queasy . |
| 15 | I am not arguing here for a return to streaming or special provision for children with exceptional gifts . |
| 16 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 17 | I am not going outside . |
| 18 | I am not going alongside . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not asking so much of you , after all . |
| 20 | I am not talking here about accents . |
| 21 | I am not talking here about laziness . |
| 22 | I am not talking here of the one-year goals and five-year goals ( often money-oriented ) so beloved of many mode business writers — although these too have their place . |
| 23 | I am not talking here about your work surfaces , or work triangles or the general space/work efficiency of your kitchen , but rather if you could use your kitchen as more of a family room-the sort of room which friends as well as family tend to migrate to at the first available opportunity . |
| 24 | I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and . |
| 25 | I am not talking only about the position in countries such as Germany or Japan , but about second or third-world countries . |
| 26 | What is even more frightening is that the decision-making down here — I am not talking only about the Government , but about the media and the City of London — is conditioned by the thinking of the south-east and of London in particular . |
| 27 | I am not persuaded either My Lords that the inclusion of nominated members with special skills will add very much to the police authorities decision making , bearing in mind the experience already there , which has been referred to earlier in this debate . |
| 28 | The 23-year-old England star insisted : ‘ I am not finished yet . |
| 29 | I am not doing so badly at all . ’ |
| 30 | I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well . |