Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 .
2 I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin .
3 I am not criticising the TEC : it does not have the resources .
4 I am not criticising the Taiwanese , because they were better than the British .
5 When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her .
6 I am not advocating the bargaining procedure described above .
7 When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work .
8 By conviction I am not suggesting the idea of ‘ conviction of sin ’ but of ‘ the courage of one 's convictions ’ .
9 I am not disclosing the page number .
10 And I am not overlooking the fact that the Provincials are more than well represented with Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure of Portrush , who meet Edwin Downey and Gary Rutledge of St Brendan 's .
11 I am not condemning the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service or the people who work in it .
12 I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory .
13 And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands .
14 I am not attacking the intellectual and musical meritocracy of Oxford and Cambridge for I do not wish to become embroiled in a political argument .
15 I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 .
16 I am not touting the club around .
17 The official protested , but Miss Royal said , ‘ I am NOT having the poor old man frightened .
18 I am not denying the truth of this feeling : to feel cold is to feel unprotected and each is a metaphor for the other state .
19 The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional .
20 I am not to tell the other Rons .
21 In using this term I am not making the simplistic assumption that people who hold this position are sick .
22 I am not making the exorbitant claim that every black youth reaching adolescence in the 1970s and early 1980s underwent such traumas .
23 I am not saying the road is not ancient , it is older than the age of the Pilgrims and could even go back to Neolithic times .
24 The chairman of the Northern Development Company — Sir Ron Dearing — said in The Northern Echo on 17 September : ’ I am not saying the recession has n't hurt .
25 I am not ignoring the interpreter 's translation
26 ‘ I am not protecting the Communists or the party , ’ he said , ‘ I am trying to , and I will , protect my sense of myself . ’
27 ‘ I am not representing CND , I am not representing the Vatican , I am representing Tottenham and I think many other people as well . ’
28 By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty .
29 And if pupils are not taught the basic disciplines of rhythm — then things become impossible .
30 Students who are not taught the ‘ trivial ’ names of chemicals ( R. D. Bagnall , What 's in a name , Chem .
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