Example sentences of "not [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why there are contrasting pieces ; not everyone is going to be marvellous with the classics ( Rex Harrison once avowed that he was ‘ no good at Tudor verse speaking ’ ) . |
| 2 | I mean , sight reading is another thing and not everyone is good at that , but it helps if you are . |
| 3 | Perhaps more variety , too , although enthusiasts ' assertions that not everyone is obsessed by the ‘ Big Five ’ are countered by East who , as a football nut and a director of Derby until he moved into his current post , knows all the arguments . |
| 4 | Not everyone is suited to neighbourhood policing . |
| 5 | Jack Lewis was about to embark on his professional career as a college tutor at Magdalen ; and since not everyone is familiar with the way Oxford functions , it might be worth explaining exactly what his work was going to entail . |
| 6 | Not everyone is opposed to more controls on advertising . |
| 7 | Not everyone is surprised by the changing mood . |
| 8 | Not everyone is so hesitant . |
| 9 | Of course , not everyone is so obsessed with body size that they are constantly on the ‘ yo-yo ’ of diet , break diet , diet , break diet , and so on . |
| 10 | It 's just that not everyone is as careful and thorough as I am . |
| 11 | Not everyone is like that , but I still think your future lies off-world . |
| 12 | Not everyone is familiar with these two interesting variations in lock construction , so that the lucid descriptions in Eric de Mare 's excellent little book , The Canals of England are worth quoting , especially as he refers in the book directly to the Grand Union examples . |
| 13 | That 's OK but not everyone is very bothered about all that . |
| 14 | But not everyone is convinced . |
| 15 | Not everyone is equally susceptible to hypnosis . |
| 16 | Not everyone is moved to tears by the fate of vultures and wolves , but it is possible to think that the old crops of predators and scavengers were somehow more attractive than the new lot . |
| 17 | Naturally , not everyone is going to be as enthusiastic about the relaunch as we are ( those who 've been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of issue 100 , for example ) . |
| 18 | This conviction may be enviable , but not everyone is able to match it , and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise . |
| 19 | If you 're convinced that an acoustic amp is the way to go — and not everyone is convinced , by the way — then you 'd have to compare the Lakewood against the £799 Trace Acoustic TA-100R and perhaps the even more affordable , if more basic , Carlsbro Sherwood . |
| 20 | On the other hand , not everyone is convinced . |
| 21 | Fortunately , not everyone is quite as cynical as Svetlana . |
| 22 | But not everyone is convinced that empowerment is the key instrument for putting the west on a more competitive footing with the east . |
| 23 | Back in Russia , the find has stirred up royal fever — but not everyone is enjoying it . |
| 24 | Not everyone is so lucky . |
| 25 | Unfortunately these are in great demand and not everyone is able to take advantage of them . |
| 26 | Not everyone is infected with WABImania including Gerry Popek , head of Locus Computing Corp , who is of course a WABI competitor with Merge , his virtual personal computer mechanism for running Microsoft Corp operating systems on SCO Unix and now UnixWare . |
| 27 | Not everyone is infected with Wabimania , and among the dissidents is Gerry Popek , head of Santa Monica , California-based Locus Computing Corp , who is of course a Wabi competitor with Merge , his virtual personal computer mechanism for running Microsoft Corp operating systems under Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and now UnixWare . |
| 28 | Separatism though is something not everyone is comfortable with , including Nell McCafferty . |
| 29 | But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth . |
| 30 | Again , mutuality and consideration between partners , the frank sharing of difficulties and dissatisfactions , will nullify the problems which arise even for these folk ; but not everyone is up to consideration and sharing . |