Example sentences of "be not [subord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 2 | Mark my words : Falconer and the Abbe Gerard were murdered , and things here are not as they appear to be . ’ |
| 3 | Irony is perhaps too harsh a word for an incongruous and humorous awareness that things are not as they seem , for either of these characters . |
| 4 | ‘ Things are not as they seem … |
| 5 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 6 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 7 | but if once you can see it as a pattern , all this lot fit together and you 're not If you learn those four reactions separately a month apart or something yeah ? |
| 8 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 9 | No you 're not cos I did n't know what to put in the box . |
| 10 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 11 | No , I 'm not cos I think it 's quite a valid |
| 12 | Well I , I 'm not , I 'm not like I said , I just want |
| 13 | I 'm not as it goes ! |
| 14 | I 'm not if I 've still got this cold . |
| 15 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 16 | There were erm , what I think , you know , things were not as they seem . |
| 17 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 18 | ‘ The key is not whether we give tax holidays but whether we provide an environment that allows companies to make a lot of profit . |
| 19 | The question that is raised about the Independent , is not whether it exists , but who owns it . |
| 20 | The piles are driven down from above into the swamp , but not down to any natural or ‘ given ’ base ; and if we stop driving the piles deeper , it is not because we have reached firm ground . |
| 21 | Stopping only to emphasize that this is not because we belong to different disciplines and that several other final positions are open to anyone from either discipline , we then leave readers to make up their own minds , or else to decide that there is no monopoly of wisdom to be had . |
| 22 | Just like salvation , is not because we merit it . |
| 23 | The reason the Royal Show is international is not because we say it is ; it is because the international visitors choose to visit the Royal Show and that is what makes it the most international agricultural show in the world . |
| 24 | This is not because they lack interest , or are unrepresented in Britain : neither of these is true . |
| 25 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 26 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |
| 27 | Even when they deal with upper/middle class offenders , as in Columbo , it is not because they have committed corporate crimes , but because they have committed the stereotypical conventional crime of murder . |
| 28 | This is not because they want to preserve General de Gaulle 's regime . |
| 29 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |
| 30 | This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured . |