Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDowell objects that we should not think of what is really there in the world as something whose thereness has nothing to do with our responses to it . |
| 2 | Human beings do not respond to what is there ( or what is real ) but to their filtered version of what is there , that is , what they perceive to be the case . |
| 3 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 4 | But those same absent attributes , I would argue , are every time those of a superficial and decorative order , attributes that are attractive , no doubt , as icing on the cake , but are not pertaining to what is really essential . |
| 5 | From the point of view of explanation , moral and ideological features of social life can be treated as legitimizing devices which may facilitate but do not account for what is really going on . |
| 6 | And it , it is n't a personal thing on his part it 's no not going shopping or driving her here there and everywhere because he he , he , he er er he does n't want to it 's just that he 's incap he will be incapable of doing it . |
| 7 | Brian and Pauline probably wo n't arrive till it 's virtually over . |
| 8 | ‘ It do n't seem like it 's even begun . ’ |
| 9 | Do n't listen to he 's just a fat bastard . |