Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [be] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of yesterday 's heads had n't enough money so were not supplied . |
| 2 | I tell you , Fred , letting Debbie do my research just is n't working . |
| 3 | A lot of my friends who graduated from art college still are n't earning any money . |
| 4 | Altan clearly are n't bothered about making any kind of cross-over deal , and the music sounds good for that , full of integrity and soul . |
| 5 | To make the recognition now was not to deny that she and her father had been aware of their flaws and petty vices ; but to consider themselves only commonly fallible was less than half the tale . |
| 6 | Taking these ageist attitudes one stage further , Price and Andrews ( 1982 ) state that ‘ diagnosed alcoholism frequently is not referred for alcoholic treatment because of health professionals ’ beliefs that the alcoholic is too old to benefit from treatment' . |
| 7 | And luckily the bike had fallen on its left side so the gears and chain ring etc were n't damaged . |
| 8 | The intention here is not to turn this essay , or indeed the panel to which it contributes , into yet another moaning session about the state of British higher education . |
| 9 | The intention here is not to construct a full history of the post-war period but it will be necessary to examine some of the main developments in the class/collectivity/political force relationships over the post-war years , even at a cost of some over-simplification , in order to establish a basis for the fuller discussion in the following chapter of these relationships under the Thatcher government . |
| 10 | The rule here is not to repeat or change the remedy until the action of the previous dose has ceased . |
| 11 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 12 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 13 | However , if you are charming and efficient you may actually get booked again by the venue : Similarly , all sorts of things often go wrong on stage , and the golden rule here is not to communicate mistakes to the audience . |
| 14 | Second , this investment abroad was not financed out of domestic profits ; over the same period US business received profits from its past investment overseas equivalent to around 1¼ times as much as it was sending overseas . |
| 15 | Opposition forwards are not committing themselves to the ruck or maul . |
| 16 | The presence of columnar epithelium of the gastric type only was not considered to be Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 17 | was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century . |
| 18 | The move is unlikely to open the way for X/Open to adopt OSF Motif as a standard for graphical user interfaces because ‘ the desktop battle still is n't won , ’ X/Open says , admitting that it ‘ missed the bus , ’ on that one . |
| 19 | Okay but we do n't your the responsibility of the sales consultant here is not to approach the estate agent or the golf to sell that , somebody else does that . |
| 20 | For one thing , Fender seemed to deserve Tokai 's kick up the backside , since apparent mismanagement and increasingly poor quality control meant that from the early '70s through to about ‘ 82 , Fender simply were n't offering the musician a consistent , value-for-money product . |
| 21 | Industrial Tribunals may make that decision but the Islington Council certainly is n't going to . |
| 22 | British Rail still is n't getting there |
| 23 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 24 | Mr Macdonald then suggested : ‘ The physical security simply was not matched ( by the computer ) ? ’ |
| 25 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 26 | He stresses that ‘ our business here is not to know all things , but those which concern our conduct ’ . |
| 27 | And remember , the aim here is not to turn you into a super-mathematician but to accustom you to thinking somewhat differently to the way you were taught at school and thereby to make things easier for yourself . |
| 28 | The aim here is not to encourage hauliers to do their own conveyancing , but to ensure they are better equipped to appreciate what the solicitor or other ‘ expert ’ is doing on their behalf . |
| 29 | Ralph Lauren 's trademark steed certainly is n't speaking the same language on a bootleg shirt here on a Brooklyn market stall as it is on Manhatten 's Upper East Side . |
| 30 | Then she mentally shook herself — standing around on this doorstep certainly was n't going to help . |