Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 2 | HAVING watched M. Desclaux 's performance at Cardiff I am not surprised that the French are always complaining about referees . |
| 3 | Yes Mr Chairman I 'm not clear erm about something that Mr Gordon said in his opening remarks that I 'd like clarified and that is that he gave the committee the impression that there were er certain of the of the partners that were accepting erm a lower specification in other words , omitting from the what is the British best if you like , erm certain items of of equipment in order to reduce cost of the aircraft , both in development stage and at the production stage , final cost of the aircraft , unit cost . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's no good , Mrs S. I 'm not working for no black . |
| 5 | But Ann I 'm not suppo Well fucking hell she said . |
| 6 | Five new proposals were tabled on Dec. 14-15 : by the USA , by the four Nordic countries ( Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden-but excluding Denmark as a member of the EC ) , by members of the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau , by the five contracting parties of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN-Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines , Singapore and Thailand , but not Brunei which was not a contracting party although it maintained a de facto application of GATT following its achievement of full independence at the end of 1983 ) , and by Bangladesh on behalf of the LDCs . |
| 7 | But Downes himself was not quite finished : |
| 8 | Although Pretoria said the release of Mr Mandela himself was not on the agenda , that decision appears to be his own . |
| 9 | I thought them beautiful , but they clearly alarmed Mr Singh who was not used to my wife 's Celtic colouring . |
| 10 | Later the same day a meeting in Brussels of EC Foreign Ministers ( excluding Dumas who was not present ) declared that they " regret to have to conclude that the conditions for a new European initiative do not exist " . |
| 11 | There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede . |
| 12 | But , the application of NMDA itself is not usually sufficient to induce LTP , though it readily induces STP . |
| 13 | The king was about to sail for Brittany to marry the duchess , and in his absence from the realm Richard would come again with a great host , Richard who was not dead , but alive and in safe hiding in Scotland , and had never truly relinquished his own . |
| 14 | I said , Richard we 're not pushing and nosing but we want doing right . |
| 15 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 16 | Are you sure Jean there 's not a box of soap in there ? |
| 17 | While teachers command social respect in Nicaragua they are not near the top of the salary league — for example , at the same period a surgeon would receive about US$40 a month and a miner about US$80 . |
| 18 | A senior county council official said later on Tuesday he was not optimistic that the decision would be reversed . |
| 19 | He decided he would show Gaveston he was not frightened but be wary of making any rash move . |
| 20 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 21 | And I said , well I know nothing about that kind of music but that 's the impression I got , I was just stood there at the bar thinking that last , last Friday it 's not the same one , thinking , you know , this is just this is just very samey it |
| 22 | And erm y every time the cleaners came round on a Tuesday it 's not ev er everything had to be on the bed , including chairs er everything , you know , you had to have your desk |
| 23 | In the United States it was not the £75,000 cheque but the $64,000 Question , the top prize in a double-your-money television quiz , that dominated people 's fantasies . |
| 24 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 25 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 26 | It 's a longish way but erm for Ken it 's not quite the same as erm the A roads and B roads and |
| 27 | This account too contains some blunders , for it is likely that it was Æthelstan who was killed in battle , at Sherston , and that Edmund brought the relief , but when Thietmar wrote Britannis he was not thinking of Englishmen , whom he always describes as Angli . |
| 28 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 29 | I told Richard it was not only wrong but immensely stupid to lie about this sort of thing . |
| 30 | Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere . |