Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 The first satisfaction of indeterminist claims , including those , like the present one , which are not within but are antecedent to the traditional area of dispute about Free Will , is of course that they leave , or promise to leave , room for a reassuring or enhancing view of ourselves and our situation .
2 First , they are not logically or conceptually necessary , as is " If she has children , she is somebody 's mother . "
3 Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them .
4 But although he sacrifices the transitory for the long-term , the latter are not differently or more solidly grounded ; indeed they are in danger of becoming rigid and brittle if they are not continually being enriched , modified and eroded by local and temporary reactions .
5 M All provisions of this agreement which are not expressly or by necessary implication to merge and be extinguished in the transfer hereunder shall continue in full force and effect after completion .
6 A complex society usually includes a number of microsocieties whose ways of assigning meaning to their actions are not universally nor even very widely shared in the community .
7 Rational agents are not repeatedly and systematically duped by the actions of the monetary authorities .
8 ‘ Ah , Tomas , tomorrow , amigo , when you are not here and I am alone , I will be sad . ’
9 Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward .
10 None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) .
11 The law sets out a variety of safeguards to ensure that suspects are not unfairly or harshly treated when they are detained for questioning .
12 The rule is plainly phonological , as it affects phonetically similar pairs that are not morphologically or semantically related , as in table 5.2 .
13 If sweet reason and turning a blind eye are not enough and you feel you have to use some form of punishment , do so without excessive anger or physical force .
14 Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) .
15 In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand .
16 Others call them myth , meaning to say that they contain truth , even though they are not literally and historically true .
17 … these conditions are not always or even usually the case …
18 Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's .
19 If they 're not here and they 're not there
20 How do you spend the rest of your time when you 're not on or planning an expedition ?
21 So I rang , I rang him last night and , they 're not away and they 've erm he was able to tell me that it was exactly a hundred pounds .
22 Two simple answers , one they 're not there and B , people ca n't afford them .
23 They 've all buggered off , if they 're not there and they 're not here
24 I mean either we 're not there or there 's too many of us there .
25 that we 're not actually and the thing is , with advertising here , we 're selling more than Christmas crackers .
26 Well no you 're not really but do n't worry about it .
27 No but they were a on no they 're not really but they were absolutely
28 Well I 'm not here but I 'll
29 Erm now and again he practises but he usually tries to do it when I 'm not here but erm not
30 It does n't matter if I 'm not there but umm you know with the time she 's there and whatever .
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