Example sentences of "[conj] we be not [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Where we are not dealing solely with our own affairs but forming general preferences as to the kind of society we would like to live in , the main pleasures and pains we are concerned with are precisely these pleasures and pains of sympathy .
2 If my girlfriend f—s somebody else , or if I f— somebody else , or we 're not getting along , it 's always my reaction to write about things .
3 just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things
4 Although we 're not talking Miss Saigon … . ’
5 We have been involved in research of a very similar nature for some time , and although we are not publishing in such august journals as The Phyrologist you may be interested to learn of our most recent advance .
6 But although we are not arguing that women or feminists have privileged access to the truth about reality , we agree with Jaggar that the standpoint of women offers an opportunity to see what is wrong with current male-defined theories and to correct them .
7 And then when we take x-rays that checks us to make sure that we 're not getting any radiation you see .
8 I 'm surprised that we 're not picking up a bit more a few more highlights , it 's a bit .
9 The solicitor is wording it that we 're not refusing to pay it , but we 're just holding it abeyance .
10 And so it would not be right to say that we 're not looking after the local element of the population .
11 ‘ Is that an implication that we 're not looking after her properly ? ’
12 Well I think er yeah I definitely have to agree with you that we 're not hearing enough of them but I suppose more and more now people are starting to record you know a little bit more of the older stuff and I think what 's happened on the pop scene that they 've absolutely dried up as regards er creating new music you know and people are going into computerized music now and you know everything is played on the one machine and it 's getting like a er I do n't know it 's as as if you do n't really have to be a musician any more .
13 Are there any disasters you see in your books that might take place in this country that we 're not taking any notice of , in terms of planning at all ?
14 And while I think we ought to do what we can , I think there 's a line which ought to be drawn , and I do honestly wonder whether twenty-one , it was eighteen last year , and I just wonder if perhaps we should erm try and switch some of these to mid-week , so that we 're not seeing it virtually every Saturday of the year .
15 that we 're not costing anything .
16 Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’
17 they just accept us for what we are , they know that we 're not gon na upset their lifestyle , we 're not gon na start raiding their place at six in the morning .
18 But we have to keep in mind that we 're not gon na let service levels deteriorate so
19 really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders .
20 It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well .
21 We disappear into the darkness , where nobody can see that we 're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy .
22 That we 're not fighting to save a hospital to go Trust .
23 It 's about erm , about seething inspection , which is a , a clause that we 're not covering these without checking that when you buy , that when printing all the paper when it gets here we actually carry out a check .
24 That we 're not saying ,
25 For example : ‘ I understand that you might be disappointed that we 're not coming over at Christmas , but I really would like to take a holiday
26 She might think we 're just around the corner and that we 're not coming to see her .
27 And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all .
28 And you 'll agree that we 're not doing that as quickly as we 'd hoped ?
29 To say whether they feel the things that that they like to see and that we 're not doing .
30 But that 's not to say that we 're not doing a reasonably good job on the whole !
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