Example sentences of "i [be] not [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 promising miracles but one thing is certain . |
| 6 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 7 | I am not discussing my sex life at a bus stop ! ’ |
| 8 | I am not intending to go through the report in detail erm but I hope that I we will now need to draw attention to one or two issues erm which are of particular concern and which emerged through the consultation process . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
| 10 | Just because the vicar down the road is selfish and insensitive , I am not justified in concluding that therefore religion is bad . |
| 11 | Oh certainly not I 'm staying at or the I am not traipsing across France . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I am not writing I draw . |
| 14 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
| 15 | In embarking on this section of my reminiscences , I need to stress once more that I am not writing my own memoirs . |
| 16 | I am not writing this as a need for revenge . |
| 17 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 18 | But , equally , I am not reporting on my state of mind ( 20–21 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 47 , etc . ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not getting bloody childish ! ’ |
| 22 | I am not getting my money 's worth . |
| 23 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 24 | I am not lost and so I have lost . |
| 25 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 26 | Cher said : ‘ I am not engaged , I am not married and I am not pregnant . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms . |
| 29 | The truth is I am not speaking to your father . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am not speaking altogether correctly . |