Example sentences of "and [vb base] [conj] [pron] be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 2 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 3 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 4 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 5 | So great , let's communicate with any other deputies and say if you 're not prepared to take it over we 'll close the we 're afraid the scheme will have to close down . |
| 6 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 7 | We want to admit that we are all really quite frightened and show that we 're not satisfied ’ , says Bernadette Vallely . |
| 8 | We shall maintain the assumption that expectations are rational , and show that it is not this assumption per se which leads to the ineffectiveness of systematic stabilization policy but its combination with ( inter alia ) the assumption of price flexibility . |
| 9 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 10 | After all , we were no ordinary family , but a clan : I was told by my mother always to hold my head up high , and remember that I was not only a MacLeod , but a double MacLeod — MacLeod being also her maiden name . |
| 11 | The streets are narrow and twist and turn and it is not advisable to take a car up them . |
| 12 | If the task is completed successfully there is joy and satisfaction ; and there is disappointment , sadness and anger if it is not . |
| 13 | We might pursue the matter further and inquire whether there are not different moralities in the same way as there are different religions grounded in different forms of life . |
| 14 | Slaven added : ‘ I was disappointed and hurt that I was not even on the bench . |
| 15 | Touch the ‘ marble ’ and discover that it is not what it seems but beautifully painted plaster — scagliola . |
| 16 | , you glance at your watch and discover that it 's not half past is n't it ? |
| 17 | What is more likely to happen is that the intensity of the pain will gradually diminish as the weeks go by until , one day , you wake up and realize that it is not there any more . |
| 18 | The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed . |
| 19 | Help them to stick up for themselves and see that it is not worth being treated badly just in order to have a best friend . |
| 20 | But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles . |
| 21 | ‘ Try and explain that we 're not going to a Laska , ’ said Masklin . |