Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be not [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 2 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 3 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 4 | okay now I 'm here and I am not only gon na be I mean now people |
| 5 | It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it ! |
| 6 | She paused , before adding accusingly , ‘ Besides , we have to find them first , and I 'm not sure sitting here indulging ourselves is a very effective way of doing that — particularly as my time in Denmark is limited ! ’ |
| 7 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 8 | the , the way we , the way I look it see , the way we 've been cut and slashed , and I 'm not just talking about high schools and first schools or anything right we 've been destroyed , we 've been literally thumped into the deck . |
| 9 | And be pretty sure we 're not as efficient as we sh as we should be and I 'm not just talking about |
| 10 | I think Oxfordshire 's a brilliant place , and I 'm not just saying that because we 're on the air . |
| 11 | And I was n't even talking when , I did n't know him from we were talking to him one night . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've found a place you like , you 've found people you like … you 're working and you 're not even paying any tax . |
| 13 | You all keep talking about us bringing it in and you 're not even talking . |
| 14 | and you 're not really concentrating . |
| 15 | And you 're not really concentrating very much at all . |
| 16 | She was exhausted and she was n't even taking the lead in tonight 's performance . |
| 17 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |
| 18 | Our alternative is straightforward , and meets this objection , and we are not only asking that it be used in all cases , only those where the result would otherwise be patently unjust . |
| 19 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 20 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 21 | That erm you know , whatever you do , is very little , and we 're not really taking the pressure off , very much . |
| 22 | Such gimmicks have helped to make Virgin 's upper class service tempting to business passengers , but Virgin knows the real business is done by men like this , and they 're not just looking at service but also cost . |
| 23 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 24 | And they 're not really going to change this very much because someone says well we 're involved in an evaluation now . |
| 25 | Erm I , I wo n't go into them because you know basically erm I think the three main ones reflect the fact that he 's saying the peasants are rising up and they 're not only changing their political views erm but are obviously changing their cultural values as well according to , to , according to what he suggests . |
| 26 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
| 27 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
| 28 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 29 | He did n't know what it was , but now it was n't small talk and he was n't just ticking over any more . |
| 30 | And he was n't really joking … |