Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lassoing Lucker . |
| 2 | Professor Gordon Higginson , university vice-chancellor , said yesterday : ‘ I am not assuming students would be fully-funded by government . ’ |
| 3 | I am not drawing comparisons here , I am just making the point that 500-plus were lost in the Battle of Britain and nearly 700 were lost at Nuremburg on one raid . |
| 4 | Then a fortnight ago I had a cataract removed , but there must have been more to it than that , because not only am I startled by the brightness of things , but the vision in that eye is practically perfect , so I am not wearing glasses most of the time , though for faint or small print ( not piano music : hooray ) I shall have to get some more specs . |
| 5 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |
| 6 | I says yes I did , I am not supplying cigs to him . |
| 7 | I am not promising miracles but one thing is certain . |
| 8 | Having heard conflicting views , I am not taking sides . |
| 9 | I am not taking sides in respect of Croatia and Serbia . |
| 10 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 11 | I am not advocating thrombolysis in the absence of that , but provided that is available and he keeps his head and the family respect the GP , then he should be giving thrombolysis . |
| 12 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 13 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 14 | ‘ I am not wanting explanations , just comments . |
| 15 | Third , I am not marrying Nicola Schreider — she 's engaged to someone else . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not marrying Claudine ! ’ he snapped . |
| 17 | I am not marrying Antoinette . |
| 18 | I am not offering excuses , but up against such class it was unfortunate that we could not field a side at full strength . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not awaiting court-martial , ’ Gabriel declared . |
| 20 | I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges . |
| 21 | No , I am not giving way . |
| 22 | I am not giving way . |
| 23 | In saying ‘ Do such-and-such ’ I am not giving expression to a belief . |
| 24 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 25 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 26 | Lawrence added : ‘ I am not denying interest but nothing concrete has occurred . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Paula 's welfare is paramount so I am not making waves with the Hutchinsons at a traumatic time like this but obviously I 'm extremely anxious , ’ he said . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I am not making promises of a vague future , a never-never land that exists only in dreams ; these are the tangible developments that will take place , things that will happen in this coming year in which we will build the foundations of economic success that will endure and the foundations of social justice that will prevail . ’ |
| 29 | The inclusion of the notion of subjectivity in the above definition might seem surprising here , but I am not equating deixis with a concept that stands in rough opposition to objectivity . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not representing CND , I am not representing the Vatican , I am representing Tottenham and I think many other people as well . ’ |