Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can distrain them damage feasant , but what I want to do is to get rid of them and I am certainly not bound to incur the expense of packing and returning them . |
| 2 | And I 'm certainly not prepared to take any advice from them , when they ca n't even pay their way in the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Go on , have a go alright , right I understand exactly what you 're saying Pauline , right the only thing is the wife and I have thought about it and we 're just not prepared to , you know what I mean , we 're gon na have to take a couple of days , because we wan na think it over |
| 4 | The possible implications of this last remark struck Desmond himself as he was making it , and they were certainly not lost on Viola , who compressed her lips together grimly . |
| 5 | But they were not successful ( Queen Wilhelmina and the government escaped ) and they were certainly not disguised as servant girls . |
| 6 | Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations . |
| 7 | The county council started the EDDR almost 50 years ago and it is still not finished . |
| 8 | However , legal advice is not provided solely by lawyers and it is certainly not restricted to those operating within the professional structure described in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | Perhaps that type of patronage was of small value in comparison with the need to provide employment for friends , but it was all grist to the mill of a politician intent on keeping his interest solidly united , and it was certainly not scorned by those with bursaries in their gift . |
| 10 | I consider playing the hand-held I bought in Inverness but I 'm either not hooked on it yet or my jaded palate has produced game-boredom already . |
| 11 | They are quite capable of paying for the resource they want and they want to provide it , but they 're just not allowed to do it . |
| 12 | They may appear to be sexually aware but they are just not prepared for the physical , emotional or sexual consequences . |
| 13 | Debt is common among the poor and unemployed but it is certainly not confined to them . |
| 14 | I do n't I do n't I do n't I do n't think I do n't think anybody is denying that but it 's clearly not worked . |
| 15 | " But it 's still not allowed . |
| 16 | We 're getting better at using this third person factor in political campaigning , but it 's still not used fully . |
| 17 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 18 | They were very keen on keeping both the songs and the set short but it was sometimes not appreciated , especially in Holland . |
| 19 | Nobody suggested discouraging emigration , but it was certainly not welcomed as eagerly as in earlier decades , and the flow may have declined a little . |