Example sentences of "[pron] be not [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assure the hon. Member for Normanton — with whom it is a pleasure to be debating again ; it has been our daily dose for the past three weeks , and he is a worthy opponent — that my party and I are not living in the past . |
| 2 | I are n't gon na bother ! |
| 3 | I said ‘ No and I are n't going to now , am I ? ’ |
| 4 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Thorfinn said , ‘ I am not dealing with your brother-in-law , or your son , or your nephew . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
| 7 | Oh certainly not I 'm staying at or the I am not traipsing across France . |
| 8 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 9 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
| 10 | But , equally , I am not reporting on my state of mind ( 20–21 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 47 , etc . ) . |
| 11 | This was definitely the case with me and , even now , I occasionally have one or two lessons to make sure I am not getting into bad habits . |
| 12 | The truth is I am not speaking to your father . ’ |
| 13 | I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 15 | Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not … |
| 16 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 17 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 18 | In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past . |
| 19 | By ‘ humanism , I am not referring to people who do n't believe in God . |
| 20 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 21 | ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again . |
| 22 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 23 | I am not referring to ad hoc arrangements or short-term palliatives . |
| 24 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) — I am not complaining about him , so I do not apologise for not having given him notice that I should raise the point — uses the crest of the House of Commons on his parliamentary report . |
| 26 | I honestly do not see anything wrong with that , and I am not complaining about it . |
| 27 | He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ? |
| 28 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |
| 29 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 30 | I am not looking for , or expecting , sympathy , but as I have selflessly ridden through the valley of the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three , I have taken abuse to the left of me and phlegm to the right . |