Example sentences of "he is not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a lunatic attacks me , I am surely entitled to defend myself , even though he is not criminally responsible for his conduct . |
| 2 | Or , more precisely , and he likes people to be precise , and would be quite anxious not to be misunderstood , he is not overly fond of fat women . |
| 3 | Wilson , writing to Mr Browning to report how his self-imposed charge fared , expressed the opinion that — he is not exactly mad , sir , begging your pardon , as unable to remember himself . |
| 4 | Here , Dustin generates a little warmth , but not much passion or conviction , and his celebrated off-and-on smile gives the impression that he is not exactly sure what to do with his mouth . |
| 5 | He is not financially astute . ’ |
| 6 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 7 | Fenella , hardly daring to speak , but knowing she must raise her voice above the treadmills , said , ‘ Where is — ’ And saw his eyes smile , as if to say : he is not here for the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ He is not here . ’ |
| 9 | We can not ask him , because he is not here , but it is an important question , to which his constituents have a right to know his answer . |
| 10 | Mr Crawford proves that if he has not buried the Frank Spencer TV image , at least he is not here to praise it . |
| 11 | If a defendant is a minor , a summons must be served ( if he is not also a mental patient ) on a parent or guardian , or if he has no parent or guardian , then on the person with whom he resides or in whose care he is ( Ord 10 , r 4 ) . |
| 12 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 13 | Messrs Lee and Lee welcome the prospect of Mr Patten 's appointment : the Democrat on the grounds that ‘ he is not just another appeasing sinologist from the Foreign Office ; the conservative because ‘ he carries more weight than the others mentioned , and he has direct access to No 10 ’ . |
| 14 | He is not just wholly complete and static , frozen into an eternal completeness . |
| 15 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 16 | He is not just another prophet , He is the Emmanuel , God-with-us . |
| 17 | He is not just a rapist and abuser of women . |
| 18 | ‘ But he is not just anyone else , is he ? |
| 19 | He is not just a prophet . |
| 20 | He is not just a passing atom of an overwhelming universe , but is of external significance . |
| 21 | The male garden spider Araneus diadematus will vibrate a strand of the female 's web as he approaches her , to let her know that he is not just another small insect caught in the web . |
| 22 | He is not just a supporter , but a fanatical supporter . ’ |
| 23 | He is not even convinced that the head of a financial institution needs to be all that numerate . |
| 24 | He is not even denounced by the government . |
| 25 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 26 | He is not even disturbed by the fact that his beard , monocle and considerable size are not always the ideal ambassadorial countenance for delicate first encounters between East and West . |
| 27 | Why , he is not even wearing respectable clothes ! " |
| 28 | Posidonius shows no awareness of living after Accius and Lucilius and of being the contemporary of Varro — indeed , strictly speaking , he is not even aware of the potentialities of his pupil Cicero in the world of the mind . |
| 29 | For young Kampucheans he is not even a memory . |
| 30 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |