Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 2 | Although many accountants are like you , other people are not and they see you as procrastinating , irritating and time wasting . |
| 3 | Mark my words : Falconer and the Abbe Gerard were murdered , and things here are not as they appear to be . ’ |
| 4 | Irony is perhaps too harsh a word for an incongruous and humorous awareness that things are not as they seem , for either of these characters . |
| 5 | ‘ Things are not as they seem … |
| 6 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 7 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 8 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 9 | but if once you can see it as a pattern , all this lot fit together and you 're not If you learn those four reactions separately a month apart or something yeah ? |
| 10 | If they were good , you would say it 's good for our art-form , but when they 're not and they take our money , that makes me mad . ’ |
| 11 | In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened . |
| 12 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 13 | No you 're not cos I did n't know what to put in the box . |
| 14 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 15 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 16 | No , I 'm not cos I think it 's quite a valid |
| 17 | Well I , I 'm not , I 'm not like I said , I just want |
| 18 | Yeah I do n't know , I 'm not and I 've |
| 19 | I 'm not and I tell you honest it 's , it is frightening me a bit . |
| 20 | I 'm not and I bought last night ! |
| 21 | I 'm not as it goes ! |
| 22 | I 'm not if I 've still got this cold . |
| 23 | It makes us look impressive , which we are n't because we did n't know the half of it either and had to look it all up . |
| 24 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 25 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 26 | There were erm , what I think , you know , things were not as they seem . |
| 27 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 28 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 29 | and erm I think there must be some people there who have brought cats in because all of a sudden there are a whole lot of cats about which there were n't before you see |
| 30 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |