Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 But just now you said that it is not something seen as just your problem .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd .
10 It had been clear from the conversation that it was n't something that concerned the gallery , but her personally .
11 And therefore in a sense , it might be down to departmental management that it was n't something that the suggestion system should encompass .
12 I know now that it was n't anything to do with you .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 THE American film maker Woody Allen once said his one regret in life was that he was n't somebody else .
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