Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] you [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you feel very inhibited by the artificiality of the situation you will give a very inaccurate impression of the sort of person you really are , perhaps even overcompensating for nerves by being too gregarious and obvious and making it clear that you are not good at handling yourself in a social situation . |
| 2 | Now if you 're going to put somebody under a shower as I say be care be very careful that you 're not splashed and get the ambulance on the way . |
| 3 | But what I 'm saying is , is that everybody makes their own value judgement and be careful that you 're not making , imposing your value onto them . |
| 4 | You 've got to be careful that you are not losing the skill of a conversation . |
| 5 | The blurred effect also arises when you are under extreme stress , only then it is because the muscles become so taut and rigid that you are not able to see clearly . |
| 6 | ( Scots get very querulous if you 're not the person they thought they were ringing . ) |
| 7 | If you have never experienced this , try it out for yourself one day when your mind is calm and you are not with companions who will ridicule you or otherwise disturb your peace of mind . |
| 8 | You 're doing it wrong if you 're not looking at the person that you 're trying to persuade . |
| 9 | Hill-walking in remote and wild areas can be risky if you are not prepared , because the weather can change completely in as little as half an hour , and then you can find yourself walking for hours in driving wind and rain . |
| 10 | Every time you say that , what you really seem to mean is that there 's a hell of a lot wrong but you 're not prepared to discuss it . ’ |
| 11 | in Ethiopia and you 're bothered because you 're not talking to one another . |
| 12 | Different when you 're not well you feel tired . |
| 13 | It just does n't seem right that you 're not here … ’ |
| 14 | I did wonder if it was a nightmare because it 's so vivid … have you ever had something you remember from your childhood which was so horrible and awful that you 're not quite sure whether it was real or a nightmare ? |
| 15 | what you see the idea is to get Kerry getting as much benefit from school as possible so you 're not having to pay me |
| 16 | Sailing in waves produces an excitement that is difficult to beat and this is partly because it can be slightly dangerous if you are not careful . |
| 17 | For the previous privately printed and limited edition of about 170 copies you will be fortunate if you are not parted from £2,000 . |
| 18 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 19 | And it it 's easy when you 're not busy , but if you get a spell of being busy , . |
| 20 | I 'd like you to just purely myself , I 'm not saying I 'm right and you 're not right and people like |
| 21 | Fine so you were not very old when you used to come |
| 22 | You 'll catch your death of cold if you 're not careful . |
| 23 | The activities of politicians , pop stars and policemen notwithstanding , life for most people is much the same , obviously , whatever decade it is — more or less endurable if you are young , that is , and quite the opposite if you are not . |
| 24 | So you 're not really conscious but you 're not really unconscious |
| 25 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 26 | Sweetheart I 'm sorry but you 're not |
| 27 | This is 2.65m ( 8ft 8in ) long so you are not forever dragging an extension lead socket around the workplace . |
| 28 | If we are wrong , I 'll make sure that you 're not blamed for it . ’ |
| 29 | Now you 're always making a balance in developing drugs and I have nothing to do with the drug industry , I 'm a G P , you have a balance between trying to move things forward to get people better and on the other hand making sure that you 're not going to do them any great harm . |
| 30 | Well what they do they make sure that you 're not better off when you 're not working than you are working |