Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 3 | I am not made of fan material , and find it hard to understand . |
| 4 | One night when I am not covered in jam and poster-paint ? ’ she pleads . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Just because the vicar down the road is selfish and insensitive , I am not justified in concluding that therefore religion is bad . |
| 7 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
| 8 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 9 | My business interests are declared , but , contrary to some popular media suppositions , I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 12 | My annoyance at missing the fish turns to relief when I realise I am not snagged in the roots . |
| 13 | I am not ashamed to admit that I am not overwhelmed with sympathy for muggers and molesters . |
| 14 | Possibly , as someone new to The Smiths and their legacy , I simply am not used to Moz 's sense of humour but , really , that joke 's not funny anymore . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not married at the moment , but I am looking forward to a very happy future with Natasha 's father . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not acquainted with any young lady of that name . ’ |
| 17 | I am not wed to your son by church law . |
| 18 | Such characteristics as initiative , purposefulness , persistence and self-control are developed through sport and , while I am not sold on the idea of sport as a builder of ‘ character ’ , I do believe that these capacities serve important functions in self-actualization , that tendency of all human beings to develop their full potentialities . |
| 19 | Indeed there are no really weak moments vocally , although I am not convinced by the style of all the vocal cadenzas . |
| 20 | But I am not convinced by it . |
| 21 | Unlike Mr I have always found fox hunting distasteful , I have never participated in it , I have never followed it and I do n't think that I I ever want to and er , I have I am not convinced by either economic or the put forward in its favour . |
| 22 | I am not persuaded by either of these arguments . ’ |
| 23 | I am not persuaded by the hon. Gentleman 's arguments that to have proportional representation would necessarily persuade Glaswegians to vote Conservative . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not finished with you yet , Miss Bishop . ’ |
| 25 | Fortunately I am not driven to this expedient that often , because I have many other stratagems that I have devised for attaining the same object . |
| 26 | I am sensible , indeed one of my first bosses at Js remarked that although I am not qualified in anything , I had common sense which was worth a great deal more to him . |
| 27 | I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders , just their cobwebs . |
| 28 | I almost always use negative film ( 100 ASA ) and am not inhibited in my shooting , by the cost . |
| 29 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
| 30 | Small inaccuracies could have been ironed out : Redon 's lithographs , discussed by Jirat-Wasiutynski , for example , are not printed on ‘ tissue ’ but on Chine collé which is quite different . |