Example sentences of "we be [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 2 | And horrified Superintendent Peter Edwards of British Transport Police , said : ‘ We are very fortunate we are not dealing with a major disaster . |
| 3 | As I have said , we are not dealing with a demon but something worse , a soul steeped in mortal sin . |
| 4 | ‘ We are not looking for a leader , ’ Douglas Wilson from Burton said . |
| 5 | But the athletes are making an unprecedented demand for a slice of the lucrative financial action and Tom Jennings , the agent spearheading their case , countered : ‘ We are not looking for a militant takeover , just a share of the wealth . |
| 6 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |
| 7 | Even now Hillary is quietly garnering her own forces — and we are not talking about a social secretary and party faithful volunteers to answer the phones . |
| 8 | We are not talking about a selection test here . |
| 9 | We are not talking about a a package of measures which we go and try to do tomorrow . |
| 10 | We are not talking of a few fanatical terrorists , we are talking of a nine million-strong nation in the heart of the Balkans . |
| 11 | German historians and Middle East experts pursue ‘ illusions ’ if they imagine they can ‘ explain ’ either figure , for ‘ we are not confronted with a German or an Arab phenomenon , but with a human one ’ . |
| 12 | If we are not provided with a reasoned argument in its support , why should we accept , as if it were self-evident , that accuracy and acquisition orders are the same ? |
| 13 | In order not to obliterate its intuitive meaning , and yet satisfy ourselves that we are not falling into a subtle trap , we denote the constant polynomial ( a , 0,0 , … ) in J[x] once again by |
| 14 | We 're not dressed for a Court feast-day . |
| 15 | If this is murder , we 're not dealing with a fool . ’ |
| 16 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale , even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 17 | We 're not dealing with a thousand items , we 're dealing with four hundred and fifty thousand items , and for anyone to go and collect that information on a larger scale even sampling it would have been almost unthinkable . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're not looking for a conflict . |
| 19 | No , we 're not looking at a new wonder drug , you know , the type that you swallow with a glass of water . |
| 20 | And we 're not entered in a road-rally . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 're not talking of a prisoner simply making a run for it . |
| 22 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 23 | When Sanchez did n't respond , Culley added , ‘ We 're not talking about a pay-off , here . |
| 24 | the intellectual man , the intellectual , we 're talking about , we 're not talking about a man in body , we 're talking about intellect ? |
| 25 | We 're not talking about a major business park for Greater York . |
| 26 | Well , we 're not bothered about a yet ! |
| 27 | But we 're not working on a line at the moment . |
| 28 | ‘ Maurice said that we 're not to worry about a thing , ’ Eddie said eventually . |
| 29 | We 're not going into a car wash . |
| 30 | ‘ Try and explain that we 're not going to a Laska , ’ said Masklin . |