Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] be not " in BNC.

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1 You either are or you 're not .
2 If you are experiencing difficulty in any of the key areas of life listed below , the chances are that you are not experiencing whole health .
3 The primary objection to UDCs has been that they are not directly accountable to local authorities or local people in their areas .
4 But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist .
5 Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor .
6 Got a nice sound to it as well , when you 're when you 're not speaking .
7 Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation .
8 It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation .
9 It 's part of my character , it 's who I am and I 'm not gon na hide underneath any wig .
10 The thesis would be pointless if most mistakes are jurisdictional or if in most cases it was particularly controversial and difficult to establish which are and which are not .
11 I think one of the , the best things a member of the royal family has done , is Prince Phillip and Prince of Wa , and Prince of Wales have actually opened their mouths up and said they 're opposed to wha a lo a lo a lot of what the present government policies are and it 's not , not before time , in my opinion !
12 Anyway , I hope you 're still at the same address , and that someone may let us know where you are if you 're not .
13 Or they are but I 'm not a very good person to bring out these effects , I do n't know which is true . ’
14 Despite the popular image of Japanese employees as happy and harmonious group workers the reality seems to be that they are not .
15 I think really I need to say that that someone been creating happens to be that they 're not sold off and
16 On the other hand it may be that we are not cost-effective .
17 Provided that the doctor is satisfied that the patient , when forbidding further treatment , was aware of what he was saying , the short answer must be that he is not in breach of his duty .
18 Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation .
19 Could it be that 't is not the younger prince who has stolen her heart ?
20 It may very well be that I 'm not playing with a full deck .
21 It may be that you are not giving yourself enough challenge in the learning goals you set yourself , and that you are attaining them without any stretching of your ability .
22 Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch .
23 Consequently , the reply to the national court must be that it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel in question must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state .
24 Another related reason may be that it is not at all clear what it is that is transmitted during inter-hemispheric transfer .
25 Where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes ?
26 When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad .
27 I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid
28 And be pretty sure we 're not as efficient as we sh as we should be and I 'm not just talking about
29 This is the last place I want to be and I 'm not at all interested in your background .
30 ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country .
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