Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not saying that a bream leader dishes out orders to his underlings in the same way that an army commander does . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure that honesty 's a word which I would er do n't get me wrong , I 'm not suggesting that a salesman 's dishonest , do n't think that . |
| 3 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 4 | They 'll just not do it if they are not paid and a chance to develop the game will be lost . |
| 5 | There is certainly a security problem , in that arranging for security and integrity of data is more complex by comparison with sequential files and this , coupled with their poor performance for sequential applications , makes it obvious why they are not used if a sequential file is appropriate . |
| 6 | It is not presumed that a hunting-gathering society will possess a bureaucracy . |
| 7 | Richards suggests that ‘ since the Anglican Church in Wales was disestablished in 1919 , it is not fitting that a name associated with church organisation should be linked to a secular unit of local administration ( Richards 1983:39 ) . |
| 8 | An initial objection which he poses is , interestingly , that it is not fitting that a woman should represent a father . |
| 9 | It is not schooling but a nasty little trick he has to get the better of me . |
| 10 | It is not expected that a bid will follow . |
| 11 | It was n't locked and a musty smell floated into the passage . |
| 12 | However , he was not selected and a request for a box-off against Matthew Turner , the Welsh ABA 's choice , was rejected . |
| 13 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |