Example sentences of "not [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Not everyone is cheering Mr Reuter .
2 WELL , not everyone is turned on by talking dirty .
3 Everybody is affected — but not everyone is overcome by feelings of despair and powerlessness .
4 Not everyone is moved to tears by the fate of vultures and wolves , but it is possible to think that the old crops of predators and scavengers were somehow more attractive than the new lot .
5 Not everyone is born rich .
6 Its anxiety and the pressure that was placed on the safety committee representatives speak volumes : they reveal that not everyone is treated equally in the North sea , and that , on some North sea installations , there is still a marked divergence between the recourse available to those working for the operator and that accorded to those working for contracting companies .
7 Back in Russia , the find has stirred up royal fever — but not everyone is enjoying it .
8 Not everyone is suited to neighbourhood policing .
9 Not everyone is infected with WABImania including Gerry Popek , head of Locus Computing Corp , who is of course a WABI competitor with Merge , his virtual personal computer mechanism for running Microsoft Corp operating systems on SCO Unix and now UnixWare .
10 Not everyone is infected with Wabimania , and among the dissidents is Gerry Popek , head of Santa Monica , California-based Locus Computing Corp , who is of course a Wabi competitor with Merge , his virtual personal computer mechanism for running Microsoft Corp operating systems under Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and now UnixWare .
11 And not everyone is hired into a ‘ job for life ’ ( or ‘ as long as he wishes ’ ) .
12 But not everyone is travelling for business or pleasure .
13 That 's why there are contrasting pieces ; not everyone is going to be marvellous with the classics ( Rex Harrison once avowed that he was ‘ no good at Tudor verse speaking ’ ) .
14 Naturally , not everyone is going to be as enthusiastic about the relaunch as we are ( those who 've been rubbing their hands together in anticipation of issue 100 , for example ) .
15 Not everyone is going to be interested — if you 're a bank , the most you can do is recycle paper . ’
16 On the assumption that not everyone 's choosing it
17 Not everyone was ruined , though many were badly burned .
18 Not everyone was absorbed with play — most were looking for a sign that Syd was back
19 And also I think not everyone was accepted in the army , they sent a lot of people back .
20 Not everyone was affected by the war in this way .
21 The China Daily wrote , ‘ Decade-old reforms are destined to go on ’ , but not everyone was assured by these media messages .
22 Not everyone was reconciled to the breach in the succession that occurred with the Glorious Revolution .
23 Not everyone was enamoured by the decision to shelve his suits .
24 well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire
25 Not everyone was agreed , however , that the Hooligans represented a novel development , nor about the scale of the outrages .
26 He had thought about what to say , not everyone was going to be as easy to approach as Mrs Flock .
27 A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind .
28 Some of them have asked me about my parentage , some of them have asked me whether or not I am tinkering with the laws of God .
29 I 'm not I 'm watching the cup final
30 I 'm not I 'm taking the piss out the way he said it .
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