Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discrimination between the local authorities throughout the country and the London boroughs pardon me are not included in this decision , in fact they 're exempt from it . |
| 2 | I goes I 'm not bothered about the fact she 's getting off with him , I 'm just thinking , you know , it 's not fair on Peter . |
| 3 | And I goes well we 're smokeless and and she goes I 'm not bothered she says I 'll do you a swap . |
| 4 | I do n't know I 'm not bothered |
| 5 | ‘ How do you know I 'm not hurt ? ’ she mumbled angrily . |
| 6 | My annoyance at missing the fish turns to relief when I realise I am not snagged in the roots . |
| 7 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 8 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 9 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |
| 10 | Pity you 're not called Simon Thospson , though , 'coz then you could make the anagram ‘ Hot on Simpsons ’ out of your name ! |
| 11 | It wo n't hurt her a bit if another dog growls at her , as it will make her realise she is not considered top dog by them . |
| 12 | ‘ First you say you 're not equipped , then you say go back to doctoring , then you say it may be good . |
| 13 | ‘ You say you are not lost , yet it seems unusual for someone to come across this spot . ’ |
| 14 | VOLPONE : 'Fore heav'n , a brave clarissimo ; thou becomest it ! pity thou wert not born one . |
| 15 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 16 | Er they say they 're not worked hard well I think they have they 've moved er moved a few thousand tons from there and erm . |
| 17 | The Wedding Present want to make records but say they are not bothered how many they sell . |
| 18 | If the would-be Finian was wounded he was not accepted . |
| 19 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 20 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 21 | She said , I mean , she says I 'm not prejudiced here , and she says there 's obvious exceptions and they 're not bad but the majority of them are a waste of time ! |
| 22 | ‘ Hope I 'm not recognised . ’ |
| 23 | I hope I 'm not asked to . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm not prepared I 'm not prepared for individuals to get up but if your not if you do n't want to listen to what I 've got to say that 's okay but I do n't I 'm not prepared for people to perhaps to start making personal points about people actual work within the I certainly would n't do it I do n't think it 's it 's a question of . |
| 25 | For what sin can be named which was not included in this one act . |
| 26 | This approach opened the way for extending judicial review to the exercise of power whether conferred by statute or common law or simply by virtue of the background principle of English law which permits anything to be done which is not prohibited by law . |
| 27 | Michelle Collins says she was not warned about the dangers of becoming pregnant while she was taking a drug to treat her epilepsy . |
| 28 | It 's part of the 1964 licencing act you 're not allowed to serve drink to people already intoxicated . |
| 29 | Have you decided you 're not cut out for a permanent relationship ? |
| 30 | He says you 're not allowed to meet your donor until at least 1 year after the operation . |