Example sentences of "that [pron] [be] not [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have a chance to prove that I 'm somebody as well , that I 'm not nothing . |
| 2 | As Earnest Kurtz argues in " Not-God " ( published by Hazelden ) , which gives the history of Alcoholics Anonymous , the process of recovery is essentially the recognition that one is not one 's self in control of the Universe , nor even of much of one 's own life , and that one is therefore Not God and nor are the mood-altering chemicals and behaviours that one previously " worshipped " . |
| 3 | You may find the competitive element useful for stirring you on to greater efforts , and you will certainly find it reassuring to know that you share a common problem and that there is not something intrinsically wrong with you . |
| 4 | ( This does not mean that there were not plenty of Irishmen who paid some ‘ friend ’ from the old country unnecessarily for the privilege of finding a job in the New World . ) |
| 5 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 6 | So erm in spite of all the odds of trying to get a candidates a at the beginning , and finding that there was n't one available , and it would n't Is n't one e well not did n't exist . |
| 7 | We apologise to all those fans of the Festival Ball who complained so bitterly last year that there was n't one ! |
| 8 | He felt that everyone knew the story that we 're talking about , the clichés , and that there was n't anything else there . |
| 9 | He suddenly decided that there was n't anything I could possibly do , nothing I could pick up . |
| 10 | This sort of optimism about sexuality that seemed to have inside it this implicit model that sexuality was a good thing , that that by erm experiencing more sexuality , more sexual pleasure , we could all be happier , nicer people , that there was n't anything inherently wrong with sex . |
| 11 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 12 | I think I ought really to say that it 's not something that 's particularly associated with opting out , it 's something we were already doing anyway as an aid to better management . |
| 13 | The child who comes home saying , ‘ I hate school ’ , learns that it is not everything about school that she dislikes when her mother says ‘ It 's been a bad day today , has n't it ? |
| 14 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 15 | But just now you said that it is not something seen as just your problem . |
| 16 | In that respect it seems to me that it is not something that is necessary to come through the full procedure of the council in order for you to do and I I thought that would would deal er establish . |
| 17 | To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one . |
| 18 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 19 | It had been clear from the conversation that it was n't something that concerned the gallery , but her personally . |
| 20 | And therefore in a sense , it might be down to departmental management that it was n't something that the suggestion system should encompass . |
| 21 | I know now that it was n't anything to do with you . |
| 22 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 23 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 24 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 25 | THE American film maker Woody Allen once said his one regret in life was that he was n't somebody else . |