Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [be] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is omitted where it is historically expected to be present , and sometimes it is added where it is not expected . |
| 2 | Looks like they 're not getting on . |
| 3 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they look like they 're acting , the tape is rejected . |
| 4 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they 're looking at their watch , or they look like they 're acting , then the tape is rejected . ’ |
| 5 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 6 | ‘ And , ’ added Gary on this occasion , ‘ it looks like she 's not coming back . ’ |
| 7 | Fabia put the phone down having promised that she would telephone again to let her mother know if she was not going to be back in Hawk Lacey by next Wednesday . |
| 8 | Erm , where possibly like the , the anorexic , well I do n't know cos I 'm not speaking from an anorexic point of view , but I think the , the point we 're saying , emotions are there but they 're dealt with in a , a different way , you know they perhaps starve themselves erm , to sort of like , erm you know ge , get across these emotions , to deal with these emotions . |
| 9 | Much of London society had moved to Brussels for the summer , there were army officers who would be mortified if they were not invited , and there was the local aristocracy who had to be entertained . |
| 10 | Second , sealing the border with Serbia would be unlikely to work if it were not accompanied by the simultaneous sealing of the border with Croatia : the Bosnian Serbs , already talking to the Croats about a confederal division of the spoils ( see page 46 ) , would get their supplies from Croatia , and the Croats — never mind their signatures on the Vance-Owen plan — would anyway continue their military campaign for territory . |
| 11 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 12 | Those which do not exist are effectively discarded because they are not stored in the list , however they could be regenerated from the graph should that become necessary at some future stage . |
| 13 | Smith suggests that ‘ the concept of policy denotes … deliberate choice of action or inaction , rather than the effects of interrelating forces ’ : he emphasizes ‘ inaction ’ and reminds us that ‘ attention should not focus exclusively on decisions which produce change , but must also be sensitive to those which resist change and are difficult to observe because they are not represented in the policy-making process by legislative enactment ’ . |
| 14 | And , second , there is a sentence in Plutarch 's Life of Artaxerxes ( chapter iv ) about the revolt of the younger Cyrus ( for which see p. 184 ) : ‘ some say that he revolted because he was not given enough rations . ’ |
| 15 | no you can wait because er you can wait because it 's not going to be that long |
| 16 | As Althusser was keen to emphasize , according to Marx morality works simply as a form of ideological control , and Levinas concurs that ‘ everyone will readily agree that it is the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 17 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 18 | The point is this : trust is only applauded when it is not seen to be misplaced . |
| 19 | ‘ I expect when you 're not going to the theatre — sometimes — and going to the cinema — sometimes — you 're having cosy little evenings in with Arnie ? ’ |
| 20 | Grey white chewing gum matter presents itself spasmodically at her mean Glasgow lips , alternating with her cigarette which is sucked when it is not rolling druggedly about on top of her ticket-issuing machine or charging up and down , and off , the long seat , dropping its fire and ash amongst the plastic cups and other less white rubbish , further propelled by chewed and muttered whinings about the discordant duet of erratic driving bus man and undone Corporation road holes . |
| 21 | The lights must be positioned ( or shielded ) to avoid glare , and must be placed so you are not working in your own shadow . |
| 22 | States that ‘ the process of environmental assessment should not be imposed where it is not required by the Directive ’ and gives guidance on the circumstances in which it should be used . |
| 23 | To say that the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production requires a number of conditions to be met is not an explanation of how they are met , of what happens if they are not met , of whether they can be met in ‘ functionally equivalent ways ’ , or of why these needs are met . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't look to just one man to have the freedom to create because what happens if he 's not doing it or is marked out of the game ? ’ |
| 25 | He says if it 's not cut down it literally chokes the jungle and so every four or five years the mangrove is cut and then it grows again like a blackthorn or hawthorn hedge would grow . |
| 26 | He says if you 're not getting stronger , you know , he says I 'll kill myself if yo if I |
| 27 | Just had to leave because Dad says If you 're not working there for eight and sixpence a week , when you had to leave one job at twelve and six . |
| 28 | Donald Fry , in his study , Children talk about books : seeing themselves as readers ( 1985 ) , has shown what can be done if one is not daunted by the ‘ unscientific ’ nature of small samples , limited ‘ controls ’ , speculation , and subjectivity . |
| 29 | That 's not clear exactly what that last bit says cos it 's not saying like you all of the land they rent out , but I guess it just means the excess above which |
| 30 | Under this interpretation , actions which originate from ‘ inside ’ the self are those which are seen as in accordance with conscious desires or intentions , and those which originate from ‘ outside ’ the self are those which one would not do if one were not coerced . |