Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 2 | Or perhaps they were not talking . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it is not . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the target has been badly chosen or perhaps it is not clearly seen . |
| 5 | Fate is cruel , or perhaps it is n't , but it does n't answer to me . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it was not so much my feelings that had changed as my thoughts . |
| 7 | Or perhaps he was n't being considerate , she suddenly realised with a pang — perhaps he had n't made a move simply because he was n't in the least attracted to her . |
| 8 | Or perhaps she was n't considering my words at all , for she said suddenly , ‘ I should stick to clay . |
| 9 | Never got through unfortunately , after a month or so it was not topical enough to bother . |
| 10 | ( ii ) If your salary grade is PO1 or above you are not permitted to undertake extra mural employment without the written approval of your Head of Department . |
| 11 | The word ‘ sparks ’ is well chosen — though whether fortuitously or deliberately I am not sure . |
| 12 | Or maybe it 's not an heir , exactly . |
| 13 | But maybe there they had only a mild form , or maybe it was n't even real polio . |
| 14 | Or maybe it was n't personal . |
| 15 | What is here referred to as " the same " is not an item , or items , capable of existing per se , but rather a mode or species of thought ; and a species of thought is necessarily " reconstitutable " in different thought acts , or else it is not a species . |
| 16 | I could n't be certain , not having observed him closely before , but either Mr Broadhurst was not like other old people , or else he was n't really old at all . |
| 17 | and I stood there den of iniquity in here , with the three of them , and luckily she was n't paying attention , she went on to something else and they all looked at me and burst out laughing . |
| 18 | My head ached dully and altogether I was n't at my best . |
| 19 | And suddenly it was n't a play any more . |
| 20 | The house appeared to be deserted , and suddenly she was not only reluctant , but downright scared . |
| 21 | And suddenly she was n't confused any longer . |
| 22 | It is not the payment of interest at exorbitant rates and so we are not dealing necessarily with a monopoly situation . |
| 23 | It is also that the the maintenance of our road schedules continues to a very high standard and so we are n't er , we have to take er the money from that source er and I will be hoping that perhaps in this we may find that we do not need to raid that particular fund so that we may find |
| 24 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 25 | He claimed unfair dismissal , but the company argued that he was not an employee and so he was not eligible . |
| 26 | Rincewind felt the familiar sticky prickling in the scalp that indicated the build-up of a heavy charge of raw enchantment in the vicinity , and so he was not utterly amazed when , a few seconds later , a shaft of vivid octarine light speared down from the invisible ceiling and focused , crackling , in the centre of the circle . |
| 27 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 28 | And so I 'm not sure where it is , what time it is I do n't have no contact for it to get in touch with , and I 'm wondering if anybody , any of your listeners either members or know of the Guild . |
| 29 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 30 | Or : she loved Lucy and so she was not easy ; she was not at ease . |