Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not even asked if I want a line . |
| 2 | And I am not entirely persuaded that the views of colleagues in this matter were given adequate weight when the final decision was taken . |
| 3 | cost and what not , and then you know when we 've decided I mean I 'm not particularly bothered whether |
| 4 | ‘ Uh huh , ’ said I. I was not easily pacified but the show had already been aired . ’ |
| 5 | I was n't totally prepared but I knew what it was like . |
| 6 | So when the wind blows and the rain descends , as it has this week , you are not only upskirted and damp , but you feel guilty too . |
| 7 | You were n't even born when it folded — and besides it was an English magazine . ’ |
| 8 | She was n't smartly dressed as he had imagined : a slack grey coat reached halfway down her calves , her hat was in plain brown felt and from under it her hair hung loose . |
| 9 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 10 | His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children . |
| 11 | It was perhaps part of his general attempt to calm her fears , but it is a potent indication that there was an underlying fear and she was not properly informed that no alternative was available . |
| 12 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 13 | Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question . |
| 14 | On the other hand we are not positively told that he was insane , and so we must also consider the unlikely hypothesis that the mistake was merely an act of folly . |
| 15 | These options can be tailored to suit if you find they are n't easily remembered or clash with some other option . |
| 16 | I just hope that they are n't completely lost and in particular I 'd just mention the because it 's being increasingly used and will be as the bypass comes in into use because access will be restricted to the , the erm roundabout . |
| 17 | This Is for those people who think they are n't properly dressed unless they 've got the right badge on — and are guilty about their middle class backgrounds and so dress to look poor . |
| 18 | On the other hand there is the danger of negative attitudes developing about the segregated units after initial enthusiasm , or if they are not properly planned or provided with the resources to provide a truly specialist service . |
| 19 | Sometimes they are not even informed that the waste is hazardous before it arrives on their doorstep . |
| 20 | Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism . |
| 21 | No but I mean , the there 's but there 's a lot of people , you see when you say they 're not easily persuaded that are working class that are voting Tory and they 're not easily persuaded they cha |
| 22 | The French government began from 1851 regularly to appoint a military attaché to its Berlin legation , while the first British ones were sent to Paris , Turin and Constantinople in 1855 ( though they were not officially described as military attachés until two years later ) . |
| 23 | United Buses and Darlington Transport Company both complained that they were not properly consulted before decisions were taken and said the proposed speed humps would make bus travel uncomfortable and could damage the vehicles . |
| 24 | They were not immediately repainted or renumbered . |
| 25 | They did , but for the most part within their family economy — that is to say they were not separately waged but included within the household . |
| 26 | They were not legally represented and declined to mitigate on their own behalf . |
| 27 | He says fortunately they were n't badly hurt but one girl has a collar and those with neck injuries will stay in over night . |
| 28 | To everybody , I walked round the site with Paul and and Stuart last Friday because Paul had been whingeing to me about erm twenty five K G palletizing and the fact that they were n't they were n't properly packed as it were . |
| 29 | They had little chance to defend themselves at their court marshal , they were n't properly represented and there was very little right of appeal . |
| 30 | He highlighted the different approaches being made by the regions , putting sufficient emphasis on the distinctions and duplications to enable the assembled company to draw their own conclusions : namely , that the international business was getting too big for the regions to handle , and that the variations would lead to unnecessary proliferation if they were n't effectively controlled and directed by Detroit . |