Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] he is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know what Steed did in the Avengers yeah , the way he likes hits people with his cane and looks like he is n't actually |
| 2 | Despite all the setbacks and frustrations , however , Turner insists that he is not disillusioned with the music business . |
| 3 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 4 | After the meeting Husseini says that he is not " more or less optimistic " . |
| 5 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 6 | This shows that he is not really aware of the shape relationship at all , but just remembers or ‘ has a feeling ’ that it ought to go there . |
| 7 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 8 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 9 | and on Joe 's visit to London he realises that he is not really appreciated and leaves as he has too much dignity . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that he was dropped from Greenpeace in 1977 for being too much of an activist , it seems that he is not blindly reckless . |
| 11 | The investor hopes that he is not . |
| 12 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 13 | An examination of the client 's hesitance , however , indicates that he is not at all sure about the terminology and that he may simply be echoing the wording of the charge . |
| 14 | It indicates that he is not content to confine himself to the small island of his own tradition and culture and consequently not recognize the significance of the spiritual insights of other religious traditions . |
| 15 | Statue-bases and stelai from Attica are sometimes signed , and the artist sometimes indicates that he is not Attic but Cycladic , at least in origin ( so Aristion of Paros ) . |
| 16 | For the same reason , perhaps , although Leontes ' jealousy in The Winter 's Tale reaches painful extremes , the fact that he never speaks prose means that he is not really mad , just temporarily disturbed . |
| 17 | Travers realizes that he is not as skilled as these two and returns home to his wife , Marie , and a more honest way of making a living . |
| 18 | Hunt admits that he is not a ‘ natural ’ developer of a car : he would test because he had to , but his temperament was far more adapted to racing . |
| 19 | Shandell admits that he is not sure — what happened , he says , is that one of the company 's distributors developed a facsimile board for Pick for MD-DOS and requested serial-port support . |
| 20 | Soon the employee learns that he is not getting from the phone calls what he wants and expects . |
| 21 | He does not , under section 19 of the 1975 Act , ‘ unless he proves that he is not directly interested in the dispute ’ . |
| 22 | While Hoving 's career at the Met could make for a juicy and fascinating story , Making the Mummies Dance proves that he is not the man to tell it . |
| 23 | Much grief , much pain is experienced in the shadow of God , but despair comes where he is not . |
| 24 | There is also something about him which suggests that he is not unacquainted with evil . ’ |
| 25 | He knows that he is not obliged to be polite , and he exploits this fact . |
| 26 | Although Tait has played he knows that he is not fully fit . |