Example sentences of "[be] not [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes .
2 I am not against the use of antibiotics — as a Nurse I see many infections managed effectively by their use and have used antibiotics on other people 's fish many times .
3 ‘ I am not in the groove at all , ’ he muttered .
4 Take Ian Woosnam , who , if I turn my notebook back a week , I find saying such things as : ‘ I am not in the groove at all .
5 ‘ I am not in the mood to play games , ’ she said with false bravado .
6 ‘ I am not in the way of trafficking with Humans , but I know of the Gruagach , ’ said the Robemaker , standing very still .
7 When I am not in the room with it , he wrote , it no longer exists .
8 ‘ Lord above , Mr Aycliffe , I am not in the market for a husband , you know !
9 ‘ I am not in the habit of holding discussions with half-naked men , ’ she said coldly .
10 I am not in the business of arguing with either .
11 Boss Denis Smith , after Saturday 's 3–0 win over BIRMINGHAM , said : ‘ I am not in the business of selling my best players . ’
12 I am not in the business of calibrating the relative evil of the atrocities carried out by the IRA , but I am conscious that the events that we have just witnessed come in the train of the attack on the remembrance day ceremony in Enniskillen four years ago , when 13 civilians were killed , and of the proxy bomb a year ago , which killed a civilian who had been tied to the driver 's seat of his vehicle .
13 ‘ I am not in the counsels of bishops and archbishops .
14 Alternating periods of flood and drought are not to the liking of any plant , certainly not to roses .
15 Chris Turner at Barclays de Zoete Wedd says : ‘ We are not at the bottom yet .
16 The CBI report on manufacturing , even in its narrow understated way , shows that we are not at the bottom .
17 If , however , there are always general substantive assumptions being made , which are not at the mercy of experience , because they govern the interpretations of experience , then the diagram is not a complete model of scientific method .
18 They are not at the cutting edge of Harvard Business Review ( HBR ) type networking but they are I suspect typical of many organizations .
19 ‘ You are not at the station now . ’
20 We are not at the time of business , we are here to affirm the call !
21 That is one of the options being considered , but presently they are not at the point where they can delegate projects .
22 Those trenches are not for the defence of London . ’
23 Unless certain peaks are foreseen , the engagements offered are not for the day but for the full length of the " event " .
24 The Secretary of State 's proposals are not for the sake of better industrial relations but , for the sake of the worst prejudices of the Tory party .
25 When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman .
26 If they are not on the goal-line five metres from the mark when the kick is taken and they then illegally prevent a try being scored the referee 's decision would be the award of a penalty try .
27 ( If they are not on the shelves , you can always request them on inter-library loan . )
28 PEOPLE who help buy the homes they live in but whose names are not on the title deeds should be able to stop the legal owner selling over their heads , the Law Commission for England and Wales recommended yesterday .
29 Do we have enough information over , say , a single map sheet to be able to plot all the potential ley markers including those that are not on the map ?
30 Any other business allows matters to be raised which are not on the agenda .
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