Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] be " in BNC.

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1 If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that .
2 Evidence that it is not is provided by a confidential , internal report on CID work circulated to senior officers earlier this year , the Crime Investigation Priority Project ( CIPP ) .
3 What a Rottweiler is not is a dog you can keep shut up for twenty-three hours a day .
4 What he is not is a publicity seeker .
5 How a fish decides what is edible and what is not is fairly simply explained .
6 But what their character is not is adequately portrayed by the gross distinction between quantitative versus qualitative .
7 The college is not is not an ideal site for education .
8 yeah because the person er who 's job it is to deal with the sulks for want of a better phrase there is not is preferring not to tackle the issue because as far as she 's concerned it 's not affecting the efficiency of the office , that 's what I 'm trying to say and it 's not , in fact it 's added to the efficiency of the office if anything .
9 Er , that that is slightly different in that an outline planning consent er is not is is precisely what it says , it is not a detail of the type of dwelling that is going on it , but it , you 're quite correct in that the planning precedent has been put , that that site is adequate for two dwellings , and and I do n't think anybodies disputing that , er at least not so far .
10 Yeah but what they 've what they 've done but what one wants to do is not is not bad for them one little bit .
11 It 's continental and is not is not U K and that was a hundred pounds , more or less for his fee and and buying a and buying at a discount through somebody who I knew buying this new shower and the tappy things , you know
12 But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words .
13 This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ .
14 Quite a common problem is not being able to get in and out of the bath .
15 ‘ What 's killed me , ’ she breathed , ‘ is not being able to touch you . ’
16 Talk to your local councillor as well , if you feel there is a need which is not being met .
17 being at a loose end is not the condition of us spiritual and working animals , it is not being a man among men .
18 This point should not be pushed to perversity : the IMF is still clear that a US-style deficit is worse , and it certainly is not being quickly corrected .
19 According to exile sources in Vienna , cows are now being treated like Romanian women — ie , subjected to a monthly gynaecological examination just to make sure their fertility is not being interfered with because population increases are the order of the day .
20 Right now she is not being .
21 It is not being fitted because of the cost : but in the meantime talks about the £25 smoke mask are proceeding .
22 Considered from a materialist perspective it has at least three damaging limitations : first it tends to construe sexuality in terms of an original pre-social plenitude , an initially unstructured natural energy ; second ( and consequently ) sexuality is conceived in certain of Freud 's central texts as a drive with hydraulic characteristics ; third , a phenomenon like homophobia , when it is not being blatantly disregarded , is explained too much in terms of the subjective , psychic repressions of its agents .
23 While the report does not specifically link the disaster with cuts in government funds , ministers will be under pressure to demonstrate that safety is not being impaired by tight cash limits .
24 THE troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is not being authorised under the Emergency Powers Act , but under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards .
25 ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’
26 Mother Earth is not being respected but raped ! )
27 But the launch is not being heralded by strikes in the hospitals or protests in the streets .
28 The finance minister , Otto Stich , reluctant to lose the SFr2 billion of revenue the tax brings in , is not being helpful .
29 There are graphics everywhere around us , but visual culture is not being analysed in a particularly insightful way .
30 The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished .
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