Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [be] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 2 | You 're doing it wrong if you 're not looking at the person that you 're trying to persuade . |
| 3 | They felt that they had a much stronger position than before and that a certain amount of muscle flexing was now unavoidable if they were not to lose face with their supporters . |
| 4 | Hill-walking in remote and wild areas can be risky if you are not prepared , because the weather can change completely in as little as half an hour , and then you can find yourself walking for hours in driving wind and rain . |
| 5 | Black Orcs are the most reliable because they are not affected by animosity and they have an extra point of leadership over both Big'uns and ordinary Orcs . |
| 6 | in Ethiopia and you 're bothered because you 're not talking to one another . |
| 7 | I have got old while I was not looking . |
| 8 | The strike was related to the refusal of the bantustan authorities to recognize the National Union of Mineworkers which it regarded as foreign since it was not registered in the bantustan , but in South Africa itself . |
| 9 | what you see the idea is to get Kerry getting as much benefit from school as possible so you 're not having to pay me |
| 10 | If you say , How far would you go in an hour , keep the time fixed so we 're not changing all three things , cos then it 's really confusing . |
| 11 | ‘ Paula 's welfare is paramount so I am not making waves with the Hutchinsons at a traumatic time like this but obviously I 'm extremely anxious , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But then he would have had to have been more obtuse than he was not to have known already . |
| 13 | For the previous privately printed and limited edition of about 170 copies you will be fortunate if you are not parted from £2,000 . |
| 14 | Employee theft , after all , is impossible if one is not employed . |
| 15 | We were now climbing fairly steeply into the mountains and silence was impossible if I were not to lose my quarry . |
| 16 | They wo n't be able to do that to be honest cos they 're not gon na go are they ? |
| 17 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 18 | Held that it was not taxable because it was not paid under an enforceable contract . |
| 19 | But also I do get bored when I 'm not working . |
| 20 | This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless . |
| 21 | This may seem confusing if it is not made clear what she means by ‘ literal ’ . |
| 22 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 23 | All our efforts to restore unity among Christians will be in vain if they are not carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ … handed on by the Apostles . ’ |
| 24 | He said a derailment was likely if it was not replaced soon . |
| 25 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 26 | That 's fine now that 's how you spell stationary if something 's not moving okay . |
| 27 | These might be regular if there is not overtaking but random if there is unlimited overtaking , quite different patterns . |
| 28 | In Africa , the high overall incidence of STDs , fuelled by lack of effective STD control , means that antenatal interventions are unlikely to be very effective if they are not matched by equivalent or corresponding measures to control STDs in the general population . |
| 29 | At no stage would this reference ever be admissible because it 's not going to be relevant after your shield 's gone in because your shield going in relates to the questions understanding be agree or correct me but this is how I understand the situation . |
| 30 | And the return should be quite good because you 're not paying tax on the , on the investment , if you cash early then you pay tax on it . |