Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] [coord] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says ’ Had I been alone and not so near a phone box who is to say I would not have said yes . |
| 2 | Cardinal Hume , in a statement issued immediately after the vote was announced , said : ‘ I am disappointed but not surprised by the vote today in the General Synod . |
| 3 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 4 | The point is that whether I believe it or not , and whether I convince my friends that I 'm right or not , does not alter the fact that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer . |
| 5 | She thought : I 'm glad I 'm awake and not dreaming . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm disappointed but not with the performance . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm disappointed but not devastated and I 'll be cheering Kriss on in Rome . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 9 | I 'll show you if I 'm uptight or not ! ’ |
| 10 | It depends whether I 'm interested or not . |
| 11 | But I wo n't go screaming about saying I 'm gay or not . |
| 12 | ‘ No , sir , not because of that , but because you forgot about it , and because you care whether a servant of yours is comfortable or not , I gladly agree . ’ |
| 13 | To make matters worse , he always enquired if I was asleep or not . |
| 14 | Whether I was asleep or not , a few hours or minutes later I am undoubtedly awake . |
| 15 | to be genuine , I 'm sure that was hard to know whether I was genuine or not . |
| 16 | It had nothing to do with whether I was redundant or not . |
| 17 | There were times when I was frustrated and not satisfied with what I was doing . |
| 18 | ‘ And you need not worry about whether I was safe or not . |
| 19 | To discover if I was interested or not ? |
| 20 | I do not feel too safe here , yet in France when I was younger but not so wise , I held one of these parapet walks against the best the French could send . ’ |
| 21 | The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not . |
| 22 | There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky . |
| 23 | So far compliated clean-up procedures have been suggested which are expensive and not compatible with large numbers of templates . |
| 24 | Generalisations may be helpful to a certain extent but we have to take into account complex variants which are law-related but not necessarily legal : Richard Vogler ( in Chapter 7 of this volume ) for example , leads us to ask whether the use of law will lead to a bureaucratisation and disintegration of the peace movement as in the 1960s ? |
| 25 | Examples in Northern Tyneside include ship-building and -repair as part of the maritime industrial structure , and those local plants which are independent and not tied to a particular customer . |
| 26 | Head a sheet of paper with the date and time of your meeting and make two columns , one for your essential objectives , the other of additional aims , which are desirable but not actually essential . |
| 27 | Editors want sharp , well focused prints which are glossy but not glazed . |
| 28 | Betas and returns were estimated using methods which were similar but not identical to those used by Black , Jensen and Scholes . |
| 29 | It was said , for example , that an expert 's report should provide an opinion which is straightforward and not misleading . |
| 30 | Greens Kites of Burnley , Lancashire , produce their ‘ Stratoscoop ’ which is similar but not the same as the Parafoil . |