Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | I am/am not interested in attending the MOVEMENT ACCOMPANIMENT DAY on 13th May 1989 |
| 2 | A am/am not interested in attending the HEALTH FOR LIFE DAY on 17th June 1989 . |
| 3 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 4 | I am not sure how much work these last words are doing , and if there is tautology here , it is compounded by what follows . |
| 5 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
| 6 | I am not suggesting , he wrote , that this period was particularly unpleasant . |
| 7 | I sometimes feel sorry , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am not of their kind . |
| 8 | I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and . |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 10 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 11 | When I am not in the room with it , he wrote , it no longer exists . |
| 12 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
| 13 | However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not going to have an affair with you . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not going to , ’ said Lucy vehemently . |
| 16 | Yes , I expect you do , said Lucy , a tiny precise voice in her ear , but I am not the one to help you . |
| 17 | However , I am not happy with the protectors I have seen and would advise all female contestants to buy a World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ) padded jacket for their sparring practice . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | I am not — ’ He stopped and looked round , almost in alarm , at a noise outside the door . |
| 20 | ( One caveat : I am not saying that this is the only necessary experiential condition for objectivity : it is , though , the one which highlights the importance of action most clearly in differentiating the objective from the subjective within the stream of experience . ) |
| 21 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 22 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 23 | I am not proposing a free-for-all , but the admission of children to certain pubs on the application of the licensee and the approval of the local licensing bench . |
| 24 | I am not saying they 're all pussycats but if you love and respect them , they will return those qualities tenfold . |
| 25 | I try to get them off him but am not always successful . |
| 26 | I am not quite sure how to train my dog . |
| 27 | I am not very happy about this . |
| 28 | Thus : ‘ ABOUT NECHAEV [ Peter Verkhovensky ] : NECHAEV PLAYS TWO ROLES , THE SECOND OF WHICH I , THE CHRONICLER , DO N'T KNOW AT ALL AND AM NOT PRESENTING . ’ |
| 29 | If so , I am not abashed . |
| 30 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |