Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's not nacked it 's just that I 've lost seven pens like . |
2 | The program is menu driven but one of the best features is the ability to input new data at practically any stage , i.e. if you are entering an invoice and the product does not exist you are able to create it there and then without exiting to the previous menus . |
3 | Where there is close liaison between ward teachers and the school of nursing , and where ward experience is part of a planned programme , this information will be available from previous teaching ; but where these conditions do not exist it is necessary for the clinical teacher to carry out her own checks with the students before the teaching can be planned . |
4 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
5 | Usually Aunt Louise would seem to be asleep , or not to realize I was there . |
6 | I really do not think we are much brighter than monkeys , and monkeys are killed in experiments . |
7 | ‘ I do not think we are under any duty to publish malicious gossip , ’ he said , ‘ which remains gossip however true it may be . ’ |
8 | I think it was overspeculated in the press that we 've sold the premises and it , it well gave the impression that perhaps we might be open you know , some people might not think we 're open even . |
9 | I do not think they are ; not in the night itself anyhow . |
10 | Having sung the praises of swimfeeders I must point out that I do not think they are the be-all and end-all of barbel fishing , specially for the very big ones . |
11 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |
12 | I do not think they are evil . |
13 | James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’ |
14 | They did not think they were alone in feeling isolated in the business world , but when they sent out invitations to the inaugural meeting on 14 July , with an explanation of what they were trying to achieve , they were staggered by the response . |
15 | For all those reasons I am satisfied that although the justices plainly were very concerned and believed that this was the right course to take , I do not think they were justified in refusing the local authority 's application for an interim care order . |
16 | ‘ Do you not think you 're a little young for all this ? |
17 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
18 | The Yek offend you because we do not think you are human . |
19 | I do not think you are one of them . ’ |
20 | Not a change of nature , I hope , and believe : still , a development as the World calls it , though I can not think it is development for the better . |
21 | Well , I am shocked that such things can be published , I do not think it is right . |
22 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
23 | ‘ But you must not think it is only to bring you charity that I came . |
24 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
25 | I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea . |
26 | I do not think it is complacent or smug ; one feels it has been worked for . |
27 | However , I do not think it is a particularly appropriate model of human social interactions , for two reasons . |
28 | It is not just ignorance , but arrogance ; you do not think it is going to happen to you . |
29 | I take the view that , having regard to the recitals and to the terms of the order , one can read into the order itself the element of compromise , but again I do not think it is important for the decision of this case ; because the compromise , if compromise it was , was between the plaintiffs and Jack Bernardout , and I do not think it enures for the benefit of Joseph Bernardout , the defendant in these proceedings . |
30 | That seems to me to be a good argument for saying that in the ordinary way the justices ought not to make an order for no contact between the parent and the child , but I do not think it is a satisfactory argument in the interpretation of section 34(2) and ( 3 ) . |