Example sentences of "be not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not inferring from what I see that there is a sheep in the field ; I take myself simply to see that there is one . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not thinking of a police scene-of-crime picture . |
| 5 | Obviously I am not thinking of ‘ answers ’ as something necessarily conceptual or purely verbal , as if a Christian answer was a string of words beginning ‘ Christianity says that … . ’ |
| 6 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
| 8 | He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ? |
| 9 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |
| 10 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 11 | I am not looking for , or expecting , sympathy , but as I have selflessly ridden through the valley of the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three , I have taken abuse to the left of me and phlegm to the right . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not looking for a ghost . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not looking for commitment ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He said ‘ it 's not bad , is it ’ , but I have seen it before at different levels and I am not looking at it too much at this stage . |
| 15 | ‘ But I am not looking like Hindu . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Although I am not looking like … ’ |
| 17 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 18 | Oh certainly not I 'm staying at or the I am not traipsing across France . |
| 19 | I am not made of fan material , and find it hard to understand . |
| 20 | One night when I am not covered in jam and poster-paint ? ’ she pleads . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Just because the vicar down the road is selfish and insensitive , I am not justified in concluding that therefore religion is bad . |
| 23 | Now I am not rated among the top three Englishmen . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
| 26 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Thorfinn said , ‘ I am not dealing with your brother-in-law , or your son , or your nephew . |
| 29 | I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |