Example sentences of "i be not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The discrimination between the local authorities throughout the country and the London boroughs pardon me are not included in this decision , in fact they 're exempt from it .
2 I assure the hon. Member for Normanton — with whom it is a pleasure to be debating again ; it has been our daily dose for the past three weeks , and he is a worthy opponent — that my party and I are not living in the past .
3 I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) .
4 Thorfinn said , ‘ I am not dealing with your brother-in-law , or your son , or your nephew .
5 I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’
6 Just because the vicar down the road is selfish and insensitive , I am not justified in concluding that therefore religion is bad .
7 Oh certainly not I 'm staying at or the I am not traipsing across France .
8 Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths .
9 At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction .
10 But , equally , I am not reporting on my state of mind ( 20–21 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 47 , etc . ) .
11 But , for all the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with whose speech I entirely agree , I am not placed in that invidious situation .
12 This was definitely the case with me and , even now , I occasionally have one or two lessons to make sure I am not getting into bad habits .
13 I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus .
14 The truth is I am not speaking to your father . ’
15 I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms .
16 I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg .
17 Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not …
18 I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system .
19 I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 .
20 In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past .
21 By ‘ humanism , I am not referring to people who do n't believe in God .
22 I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans .
23 ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again .
24 I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections .
25 I am not referring to ad hoc arrangements or short-term palliatives .
26 I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed .
27 I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said .
28 I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa .
29 The hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) — I am not complaining about him , so I do not apologise for not having given him notice that I should raise the point — uses the crest of the House of Commons on his parliamentary report .
30 I honestly do not see anything wrong with that , and I am not complaining about it .
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