Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not milling about , I 'm not lurking and I 'm not amassing , ’ Otley said vehemently as Nigel pleaded with him yet again . |
| 2 | A lot of Emo 's gags seem calculated to make you retch and he 's not averse to teasing his audience with routines based on taboo subjects like child abuse and necrophilia . |
| 3 | So so basically , in a minute , have to sit down and write a list of who is going to come and who is not and what order . |
| 4 | It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it ! |
| 5 | Sometimes , the estate agent 's particulars are not very explicit about what is included and what is not , and in any event , sellers may change their minds , or may throw in certain items such as carpets and curtains in the course of the negotiations to settle a price . |
| 6 | it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ? |
| 7 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 8 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 9 | All these conversations he has and I 'm not there . |
| 10 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never been interested in driving and I 'm not going to start now , ’ said Liz , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation at Runcorn in the UK . |
| 12 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 13 | But they have to be claimed and they 're not paid automatically . |
| 14 | I figured out that if this is what David wants and I 'm not going to give it to him . |
| 15 | Decisions will be made in Brussels on social matters whatever happens and I am not convinced that those decisions would be affected by any new form of regional government . |
| 16 | ‘ We are premium priced and we are not out to undercut others , but we believe we offer better value for money . |
| 17 | Erm , it 's clearly states that a new settlement should be only contemplated where , and it 's my opinion , that all those factors need to be met and they are not weighted within that er paragraph . |
| 18 | and , , and they felt really bad apparently and they 'd apologized , you know , and everything was cool and I thought I was quite adamant though but they 'd , they , I 'm not used to this , you know , I 'm quite naive as Zoey says and I 'm not used to boys |
| 19 | I think we have to recognise Angela 's concern if er a subject area that she 's trying to present , present and she is not precluding you from doing what you 've got |
| 20 | A more subtle aspect of this argument concerns which statistics are collected and which are not . |
| 21 | Her back was arched and she was not breathing . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 23 | Eventually she admitted to us that Charlie was stealing them to sell and we were not to mention it . |
| 24 | Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear . |
| 25 | ‘ They say that pain is good for writing and I 'm not sure about that , but I guess my trouble is I do n't know how to keep a distance . |
| 26 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 27 | He looked wise and solemn when he said this , because he knew that ladies — even sorceress 's daughters — had their own ideas about what they ought to wear and it was not to be supposed that Flame would be any different . |
| 28 | A letter was considered regarding a tutor whose students were not registered and who were not up to examination standard . |
| 29 | Central questions to which epistemologists try to provide answers include ‘ Which beliefs are justified and which are not ? ’ , |
| 30 | I saw the report to which my hon. Friend referred and I am not at all surprised that the Opposition tried to shout him down , for the simple fact is that the report revealed that the majority of people in this country recognise that the Labour party has now promised to increase spending on just about everything under the sun , which would mean higher borrowing , higher inflation and much higher taxes . |