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

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1 let the other man , the conservatory man know , it 's not fair to not be here to .
2 I wonder if that final rock shelf might turn out to not be as sloping as we think it is .
3 So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester .
4 Luckily we are playing well enough to not be under much pressure at all lately .
5 Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on .
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