Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners .
2 Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway .
3 Then on an embarrassed laugh , he added , ‘ I 'm not used to polite society . ’
4 You are not born with strong or weak will-power .
5 Please not that you are not covered for consequential loss under this service .
6 Please note that you are not covered for consequential loss under this service .
7 You are not covered for consequential loss .
8 Increased productivity — you 're not surrounded by seductive frills and furbelows .
9 She is not given to grieving .
10 She is not clipped by fine A.
11 He must be made to realise that she was speaking up for Kirsty 's sake , that she was not motivated by personal spite .
12 In this , the statement by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) II , ‘ Salvation and the Church ’ , is a major breakthrough because theologians from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Communions were able to state together the ‘ once-for-all ’ offering of Christ on the cross , and that we are not saved by good works but for good works .
13 Well in the first place , I have made clear throughout , and I have a record their of over twenty years that people can have a look at , but I made clear throughout , as has Mr Adams , that we are not engaged in secret deals , secret deals do n't solve problems .
14 We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium .
15 I think the only drawback in that was , it 's been discuss , that , if you are dealing with money here you are expected to be , but I ca n't see that 'll make any difference because we 're not tied to National cost at the bazaar are we ?
16 The result of our review [ of funding ] , contrary to my expectations was that we were not under-resourced for Mental Illness Services .
17 We were not used to large houses … .
18 We were not starved of new westerns in that era when great old stars were playing aged gunfighters and movie squabbled with movie on the ideological terrain laid out by the war in Vietnam .
19 They are not caused by individual neurosis , but it is being asserted that religion is best understood as if it were a symptom of a neurosis of humanity as a whole .
20 While depression , incontinence , dementia , general aches and pains , and particular illnesses are more likely to develop they are not caused by old age itself .
21 Autocar & Motor is unobtainable at 99 per cent of newsagents ; they wo n't sell it because they are not reimbursed for unsold copies .
22 Namibia 's media institutions can not play an effective role in the process of nation-building and development if they are not staffed with knowledgeable and skilled personnel , nor can they hope to be successful in their general functions to inform and enlighten the Namibian public without adequate professional training and research .
23 Namibia 's media institutions can not play an effective role in the process of nation-building and development if they are not staffed with knowledgeable and skilled personnel , nor can they hope to be successful in their general functions to inform and enlighten the Namibian public without adequate professional training and research .
24 It argues that protection for the birds is unnecessary as they are not threatened by current control practices .
25 The key point about all the objects collected is that their provenance is known ; they are not collected for aesthetic merit alone .
26 Producer services are tradeable ; unlike many services they are not tied to local population and income levels , and as a consequence they contribute to spatial variations in service employment .
27 ‘ Old people commonly are despised , ’ observed Richard Steele , ‘ especially when they are not supported with good estates ; ’ while another commented in 1621 how , in contrast to the common ‘ pleasure in infants ’ shown by women , ‘ old people are burdensome to all ; neither their talk nor their company is acceptable . ’
28 The reports studied in this chapter are " technical " ; that is , they are not written in general terms but refer to a specific problem within a specific set of conditions .
29 They may take themselves rather too seriously and are full of ‘ in ’ jokes and references , but then they are not intended for general consumption .
30 They are not composed of real people .
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